Everything about SWINE FLU

praveen taneja

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Rangrajan and capricorn really appreciate efforts of you both sorry no thanx button
 

Capricorn

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The article above seems to have been moved so here'a a paste

Paracetamol, plenty of fluids & rest
Sudeshna Sen13 August 2009, 03:00am IST
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Its like being gifted a designer bag by someone you hardly know, you dont quite know if its the genuine article. I still dont know if I
actually had swine flu, though my doctor insists I did. How does he know? They didnt test me; he was diagnosing and refusing to give me medicines on the phone. Were not allowed to show up at the surgery and spread it about. I could have had measles for all I know. It felt like any other nasty viral fever, a week or 10 days of fever and stuff, and then youre left feeling like youve been flattened by a truck for another week or so. In hindsight, its no big deal, really, ho hum.

Given the completely unnecessary palaver everyone is making about swine flu, one is more likely to die of sheer worry than of any flu. It doesnt, in the least bit help, that media, governments and health authorities in nation after nation are following almost identical patterns, about as predictable as the flu cycle.

Its hit Indian shores about a month after weve been through the whole cycle of panic and alarmism, trying to first contain and isolate, then test and treat, then a shortage of medicines as everyone panics every time we sneeze, then a move towards trying to identify only the really risky cases and treating them, and finally by that time everyones already had it, and recovered. We were all given dire warnings for weeks, so when I sneezed I just hoped it would go away.

By the time I summoned up the courage to call the National Health Service, theyd stopped quarantining people in their homes. No point, its too widespread already, the doctor said. Id been giving myself heart attacks worrying.

Heres the real dope from a survivor. Dont panic. No, it is not fatal. Not by itself, only from additional complications and usually if you are pregnant, already have other serious illnesses like heart or kidney disease, or something major.

Gas masks are useless. Its a nasty lil virus, its extremely fast and sociable, it transmits itself like the common cold. Anti-virals like Tamiflu are not preventives. Dont just pop em, even if you get hold of them. They have to be taken in exactly the first 48 hours after getting the infection, its useless else.

The most effective treatment is paracetamol, plenty of fluids, rest, and chicken soup. Thats what I was given, despite nagging incessantly at my doctors for anti-virals. Im not eligible for them, apparently, because in the UK, antivirals are being stingily doled out only to high-risk categories. So I panicked, muttered darkly about being stuck in a backward country, and got someone in India to send me supplies of Oseltamivir. I called again. My rather tetchy GP told me not to whine, drink my soup and it would go away in a week or 10 days. Surprisingly, it did. By the time I was actually allowed into the surgery, and did a battery of tests in retrospect for any secondary or lingering infection, it was all over.

Globally, WHO has officially abandoned any attempts to contain swine flu the medical strategy in pandemic hit countries is to identify outbreak clusters because this bug is neighbourly. Next, to identify the most at risk patients The rest dont need anything. Yeah, I didnt believe the NHS when they told me that either, but they were right. This time.
 

Capricorn

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Rangrajan and capricorn really appreciate efforts of you both sorry no thanx button
Just doing my bit to avoid panic and rumors:) which are flying fast and furious.

Mumbai is almost locked down due to these fears , it would have been more appropriate to close down the news channels for a week , it is they who are spreading the panic IMO.
 

praveen taneja

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Must share my swine flu close encounter story. I work at a private residential school and about two weeks ago the students were starting to get very sick. A few even hospitalized. I had to work right in the sick zone. A large number of staff got sick to varying degrees and finally one of the kids hspitalized came back as H1N1. Anyways, I take my usual 12 grams but one day all of a sudden I get really hot like a fever was starting so I loaded up a water bottle with the last of my c crystals I stored at work and I start taking 2 500mg tablets every half our. It was very strange, as though I could FEEL something trying to get hold. A couple of hot minutes, body slightly aching, you know the ache that when it begins you know the flu is going to sap you of all energy and make your bones ache. Well I start doubling my tablet intake every half hour. It would try to start up again....the heat, the threatening body ache then subside a little faster. Kind of like in waves and then headache began developing... (which I am not prone too) and which is a characteristic of swine. So the headache started close to home time and I went home and put a couple of heaping TBLSP in a glass and drank. Normally I would have been running back and forth to the bathroom with astronomical gas inbetween, but nothing happened at all except the headache lessened. Kept taking 1g to two 2g of c up til bed time which was early. Slept and woke up feeling as though I just got over something...not 100% but that feeling as though you've spent three days really sick and it's about the fifth day. Kept taking my usual 12g and extra tablets through out the day and it was over. I am POSITIVE I went through some mini swine with very little discomfort except the briefest spells and vitaming c pulled me through.
 

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