Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the flu vaccine. It used to be so simple; there was just one flu vaccine. Now we have high dose, trivalent, quadrivalent, intranasal and intradermal, to name a few. Here is a list of the vaccines available and their indications:
To avoid ordering multiple types of flu vaccine we have chosen the vaccine that would suit the needs of the majority of our patients, the standard dose trivalent vaccine. Some patients have asked about the high dose vaccine–it contains much more antigen than the standard dose, but studies so far show that it is no more effective, or may be only marginally better, depending on which study one reads.
