Flu Shot Vaccination
For students, faculty, and staff
Health Services
Queen Anne Dorm
Walk-in (no appointment necessary)
- Thursday, October 4th (10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
- Wednesday, October 10th (10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Fee: $15.00
Students – must be charged to your account
Faculty/Staff – exact change or bring check made payable to Washington College
The flu season generally starts in late fall and lasts through mid spring. The Health Service strongly recommends that all students, faculty, and staff get a flu shot. Flu shots are given by the Kent County Health Department from October through December. The college also sponsors a flu shot clinic on campus each October. For more information please call the Health Service at ext. 7261.
If you have flu-like symptoms you should do the following:
Check your temperature and take plain or extra-strength Tylenol, 2 tablets every 4 hours if you have a fever. If you have a temperature greater than 101 you need to be seen in Health Services.
- Drink lots of liquids like gatorade, gingerale, 7-UP, and water. Avoid drinks containing caffeine.
- Rest! Do not go to class if you have a fever. You normally need 8 hours sleep per night. When you are ill you need more than that.
- Use warm salt water gargles, zinc lozengers, or throat lozengers for sore throats.
- The flu is caused by a virus. Antibiotics will not help unless there is a secondary bacterial infection. All we can do is treat the symptoms ie., tylenol for fever, cough medicine for cough, sudafed for nasal congestion, etc.
- Do not take aspirin! Aspirin has been linked to Reyes Syndrome when taken during a viral illness.
- If you have any of the following symptoms you need to be seen: Temperature greater than 101, shaking chills, severe persistent headache with neck stiffness, persistent vomiting, productive cough with tightness in the chest or shortness of breath, wheezing, or symptoms that last for more than a week without improvement.