samedaydoctor walk-in private clinics offer a wide range of specialist services, with highly qualified
private GPs on staff. Amongst their range of services are travel vaccines, including flu and swine flu
vaccinations. With influenza being a potential problem for everyone, particularly pregnant women,
people aged 65 years and over and children under five, everyone over the age of six months is advised
to visit their GP to receive the flu vaccination.
However, getting an appointment with a local GP can be difficult, which may be enough to put some
people off of trying to seek treatment. They may also not consider themselves to be at risk, as the
general perception seems to be that it is only a real danger for the elderly. This is incorrect, as the
influenza virus is unpredictable, and affects sufferers in different ways. Elderly people do have a high risk
of more severe effects, due to weaker immune systems, which make them more susceptible to the more
dangerous problems caused by the flu, such as bacterial pneumonia and dehydration. However, while
many younger people may suffer from high fever, headaches, muscle aches and a cough, for around a
week on average, it can also prove lethal to people in general good health.
With samedaydoctor’s private GPs, the flu vaccination can be administered quickly and efficiently, as
can the swine flu (or H1N1) vaccination. Though swine flu does not pose as big a risk as it did twelve
months ago, it is still a danger, and the vaccination should be considered by those people staying within
the UK and travelling abroad. At samedaydoctor, the team of private GPs will offer advice and answer
any queries a patient may have on both the flu and swine flu vaccinations.