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Speaker 1: Flu season is just about upon us, and we've got

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Speaker 1: Chemist Warehouse pharmacist Sonny Nirula with us. Good morning, Sonny,

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Speaker 1: go here you going. Now the flu vaccination? How important

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Speaker 1: is it to be covered?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's really important and the biggest thing is to

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Speaker 2: try and get yourself done in the right time. And

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Speaker 2: that's the problem with the weather right now is so beautiful?

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. What about so when is the time?

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Speaker 3: And you know with the pointments at Chemists Warehouse where

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Speaker 3: we're looking at, what's sort of the end date for those.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, we run the program all ways through the

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Speaker 2: end of July, but really now the time to get

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Speaker 2: done because the flu vaccine takes about three months to

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Speaker 2: reach its peak effectiveness. So if you get done now

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Speaker 2: when the flu is really hitting the community, which is

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Speaker 2: usually around late July August, actually having proper immunity.

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Speaker 1: Now, what age are we talking, it's it's it's pretty

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Speaker 1: much months and above, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It is in our stores we do from five years

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Speaker 2: up or really everyone in the community should get done.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of different vaccines over sixty five year

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Speaker 2: olds to get a stronger dose, but the rest of

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Speaker 2: the community get done. For free at any of the

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Speaker 2: stores in May and June.

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Speaker 3: So noil, What are we talking about with side effects

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Speaker 3: where people want the discussion? What we can expect there?

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Speaker 2: Well, side effects with slea vaccine are very mild. The

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Speaker 2: fly vaccine has been around for probably my entire life,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not that young. But the side effects generally

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Speaker 2: a mild and transient from a little bit of soreness

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Speaker 2: in the arm for maybe a day, very mild fever

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Speaker 2: for maybe twelve hours after the vaccination, and generally that's it.

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Speaker 2: People can't have severe reactions. That's extraordinarily rare.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you make yourself a booking and I

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Speaker 1: believe bookings are available at this stage until the end

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Speaker 1: of June, and then I suppose you'll take more. Then

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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty easy in and out quickly and you're done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so. I mean, the actual vaccination only

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Speaker 2: takes a couple of minutes. We do ask people to

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Speaker 2: stay around fifteen minutes just the check they don't have

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Speaker 2: any reactions, so we can take care of them if

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Speaker 2: they do. But I've been doing this for a long time.

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Speaker 2: We haven't ended reactions yet, so hopefully that never happens.

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Speaker 1: I think we're also after COVID, we're also used to

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Speaker 1: the whole process of having.

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Speaker 3: It done there and sticking around from the idea. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then I'll need a jelly bean, so jellous. I

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Speaker 3: have those taken care of them for you. Well, Litually,

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Speaker 3: I think some of the main messages don't be themid

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Speaker 3: will put off or get that full sense of security

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Speaker 3: from the way the weather is because it's filly, very

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Speaker 3: spring like, and people may not be thinking about this.

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Speaker 2: That's right. An influenza is a very severe disase. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: when when you get hit, it's horrible and sadly every

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Speaker 2: year there are our deaths in our community over it,

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Speaker 2: so we want to avoid by getting everyone.

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Speaker 1: Vacinate now, ye all right, Well, you can thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Sonny, see you at chemist Warehouse. You can

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Speaker 1: find out more at chemist warehouse dot com dotu for

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Speaker 1: slash flu