Are children at high risk for complications of influenza?
Most healthy children can weather the flu, even with a high fever. But that’s not always true for children younger than 5 years old and those with chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes. Serious complications of flu occur most often in young infants, people with chronic health conditions, and the elderly. Sometimes healthy people – including children – can have these serious complications or die from the flu. That’s why we need to take flu very seriously and get vaccinated each year.
Related Questions
- Individuals aged 25-64 years with medical conditions are high risk for influenza complications & are vaccine priority group. What exactly are these high-risk conditions?
- What are you advising people at high risk for complications from influenza or providers to do if they are having difficulty obtaining vaccine?
- What should parents of children at high risk of serious complications do?
