Patient/caregiver was instructed regarding contraindications to receive flu vaccine as follows: Children younger than 6 months are not approved to receive flu shots. Children younger than 2 years of age and individuals aged 50 years & older are not approved to receive nasal flu vaccine. Individuals younger than 18 years of age could not receive recombinant flu vaccine. Individuals younger than 65 years of age could not receive high dose or adjuvant flu vaccines. Individuals [...]

Patient/caregiver was instructed regarding indications to receive flu vaccine as follows: Flu vaccines, in general, are given to protect against influenza group of viruses. Different types of flu vaccines are available, based on how the vaccine is manufactured, mode of vaccine administration, dose in which vaccine is administered, and the strength of immune response generated by the vaccine. Different types of vaccines are approved for different age-groups and based on other clinical indications. Standard dose [...]

Patient/caregiver was instructed regarding types of flu vaccines as follows: Different types of flu vaccines are available, based on how they are manufactured. Some flu vaccines are made from inactivated and killed virus and others made from live and weakened virus. Flu vaccines also differ in the mode of administration. Most flu vaccines are taken as shots, administered into the arm. Some flu vaccines made from live and weakened virus could be given as nasal [...]

Patient/caregiver was instructed regarding flu vaccine as follows: Flu vaccines are given to protect against influenza group of viruses. Influenza viruses rapidly mutate and change. The influenza viruses responsible for flu this season could be different from the viruses rampant in the previous season. As newer strains of influenza viruses emerge every year, newer versions of the vaccines are manufactured too to control the spread of influenza for that current season. Also, as the viruses [...]