Health officials are urging everyone over 6 months old to get their flu vaccine as soon as possible to help avoid another nasty season. And to encourage needle-phobic kids to get immunized, a leading pediatric group is softening its insistence that they get it in a shot rather than a painless nose spray.
Preferentially, we want kids to get the shot, said Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, a Seattle pediatrician and spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Secondarily, if the child is healthy and over age 2, they can go ahead and have the nasal spray. Its certainly better than…
Group OKs use of nasal spray for flu vaccines
