Cold and Flu Season

It seems that every time we go anywhere where there are other children my son seems to get a cold. we were at Grandview yesterday and now he is sick. Germs are everywhere and with toddlers always having things in there mouth it seems they are always getting sick. This is why I make sure my son gets the flu shot. I have heard a lot of controversy lately about the shot and that viruses mutate so quickly that the shot may be ineffective, but the virus needs a host to be able to learn the immune system and mutate to protect itself. When we get the flu shot we are stopping the virus from having a host therefore slowing down the mutation. Also I have heard so many people say they get sick because of the flu shot. What they get is enteric or the common cold, which the flu shot is not meant to protect against in the first place. When they get the real influenza virus they are sick for weeks and I have seen many elderly people die from the flu but never anyone who had the flu shot. That is enough of a case for me to get one and to vaccinate my son.