{"id":62,"date":"2016-10-03T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-10-11T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:56:56","slug":"alternative-treatments-linked-to-skipping-flu-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Treatments Linked to Skipping Flu Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Children who have been treated with certain forms of complementary or alternative medicine may be less likely to get the flu vaccine, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the researchers looked at information collected on 9,000 U.S. children ages 4 and 17, who took part in the 2012 National Health Interview Survey. They found that 8 percent of the kids had used a biologically based therapy, such as herbal supplements; 7 percent had used a manipulative and body-based therapy, such as chiropractic manipulation; 5 percent had used a mind-body therapy, such as yoga; and 4 percent had used an alternative medical system, such as acupuncture.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the kids in the study, 43 percent had received an influenza vaccine in the previous year. When the researchers took a closer look at the data, they found that those children who had ever used an alternative medical system or received a manipulative and body-based therapy were less likely to receive the flu vaccine in the prior year compared to those who had never received those types of alternative care.<\/p>\n<p>More research is needed to determine why exactly children who have received certain types of alternative treatments may be less likely to receive the flu vaccine, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56347-alternative-medicine-linked-to-skipping-flu-shots.html\">Live Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children who have been treated with certain forms of complementary or alternative medicine may be less likely to get the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","category-articles","category-vitamins-supplements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}