{"id":5160,"date":"2007-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2007-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"asthmatic-children-flu-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/asthmatic-children-flu-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with Asthma Should Get Flu Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' href=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory?id=2934545>ABC Health News<\/a> reports that children with asthma should get flu shots, but only 3 in 10 actually receive the shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were surprised at how low the number was,&#8217; says Susan Brim of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>Children with asthma can die from respiratory complications from the flu. A flu vaccine shot is recommended for all asthmatic children older than six months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Influenza in a child or adult with asthma can be fatal,&#8217; says <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/teague-air-pollution.asp?utm_id=NL0307'>Dr. Gerald Teague<\/a>, a pediatric pulmonary specialist at Emory University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Health News reports that children with asthma should get flu shots, but only 3 in 10 actually receive the shots. &#8216;We were surprised at how low the number was,&#8217; says Susan Brim of the U.S. Center for Disease Control&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/allergy-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Allergy tips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[189],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}