Swine Flu Vaccinations May Result In Narcolepsy In Young Adults: Study

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By Staff Reporter , Parent Herald Jan 22, 11:56 am

A recent CDC report on swine flu, H1N1, shows that young adults are more susceptible to the disease.

There are flu vaccines to treat Swine Flu but they can lead to neurological problems in teens later, reveals a recent study.

Pandemrix is a flu vaccine discovered in 2009 to treat H1N1. Swedish health practitioners recently conducted a clinical test on the neurological effects of the flu shot, if any. According to the researchers, usage of Pandemrix aggravates chances of narcolepsy in teens.

Narcolepsy is a kind of sleep disorder where the patient falls asleep irrespective of the place or time. The researchers based their findings on data collected from regional vaccination and national health registries, which covers up to 61 percent of the population from seven main regions of the country.

The team could not identify any link with neurological problems.. However, the researchers did find that a considerable number of youths below the age of 20 to be suffering from narcolepsy and increased risk of the disease among youn adults between 21 and 30.

"The follow-up of Pandemrix vaccinations in a large registry based study in Sweden confirms an increased risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents, while also providing reassuring results for a large number of other neurological and immune related diseases," said Dr. I. Persson, one of the researchers in a press release.

Only 35-40 percent of the population gets vaccinated on time in the U.S. and the number of teens getting this vaccination is very lowl, according to a post on ydr. According to recent reports from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Western Pennsylvania has reported the highest number of swine flu cases in 2013-2014.