Question
Can chronic urticaria patients receive the H1N1 vaccine?
Answer
When considering receiving the H1N1 vaccine, chronic urticaria patients should consider the following factors:
- Allergies to eggs or vaccine components (including adjuvants, formaldehyde, culture media, etc.).
- Presence of acute diseases, severe chronic diseases, or acute exacerbation of chronic diseases.
- Fever or feverishness.
- Having Guillain-Barré syndrome.
- Uncontrolled epilepsy or other progressive neurological diseases.
- Severe allergic constitution, allergic to gentamicin sulfate.
- Age under 3 years.
- Other conditions deemed unsuitable for vaccination by the doctor. Based on the above situations, it is recommended that chronic urticaria patients exercise caution when receiving the H1N1 vaccine.