Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Amy
One of this site’s regular readers left a comment yesterday with a perfect question for today’s Reader Response. You can read the whole thing on this post, but here’s a summary:
Roe has an 25 year-old daughter with lifelong asthma who’s currently in the middle of a flare. She’s taking steroids for it, but so [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), Reader Response, The Sickroom | 3 people talking »
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Amy
Swine Flu Statistics on Deaths, Hospitalizations
So far, almost 10,000 deaths can be attributed to swine flu in the U.S. To break it down further, the CDC reports 7,500 H1N1 deaths in young adults and 1,100 in kids. Approximately 1 in 6 Americans have contracted it overall.
UK Research Backs Up Evidence that H1N1 Less Serious Than [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), Lung Drugs, News & Research | 4 people talking »
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Amy
Vaccine availability is up while actual swine flu cases have dropped. In other news:
Swine Flu Email Scam
If you get email looking like it comes from the CDC and addressing a H1N1 vaccine registry, just trash the message. It’s not from the CDC, and trying to comply with it will probably result in a computer [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), Lung Drugs, News & Research | Talk to me »
Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by Amy
Dear readers who’ve ended up here after Googling *H1N1 no fever,*
- Yes, you can have swine flu without a fever.
- Yes, it’s a little uncommon but not completely unheard of. In fact, this feverless flu quality is just one more feature that sets H1N1 apart from other outbreaks and even regular old seasonal flu. (More [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Amy
Current numbers indicate the second swine flu wave, here in the northern hemisphere, is peaking or has peaked. No one knows if a third wave looms.
Tamiflu Resistance Not a Problem, WHO Says
Two recently reported Tamiflu resistance clusters occurred on cancer wards among patients with severely immune-compromised patients, and the World Health Organization says this resistant [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), News & Research, School and Sports | 1 person talking »
Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Amy
Norway Reporting Possible Problematic H1N1 Mutation
Stress on the *possible.*
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health found this form of swine flu in two patients who died and one who had a severe case, but this article also includes the following from the institute’s statement:
Based on what we know so far, it seems that the mutated virus [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), News & Research, Weird Health | 2 people talking »
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Amy
Several variations of this question have popped up all over the comments. Since we’ve all got different answers, let’s leave ‘em here, in one place:
After recovering from the swine flu, how long did you/your child keep coughing?
My answers:
For me, a non-asthmatic and without Tamiflu, it lasted around five days after recovery.
AG, who did [...]
Filed under: Asthma Triggers, H1N1 (Swine Flu), My Asthma Girl & Me, Reader Response, The Sickroom | 3 people talking »
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Amy
If you swear by nasal washes during flu season like I do, listen up:
New research indicates that even as many people use neti pots and other saline delivery systems to help prevent and treat sinus infections, nasal irrigation over the long term may actually up the number of infections you get.
The theory behind this? Constant [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), News & Research, The Sickroom | 5 people talking »
Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Amy
This is not something you see everyday.
Remember how some research showed N95 masks helped prevent virus transmission better than any other kind?
Apparently, at the recent annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Australian team behind that research basically stood up and said, “My bad.”
Check out what happened in full detail [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), News & Research | 1 person talking »
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Amy
Discover Magazine’s Flu Wars
Discover’s December 2009 issue showed up in my mailbox the other day, on November 4th. Makes total sense.
The screwy timing of magazine publishing aside (and that’s not news to anyone who’s ever held a subscription to any publication, I’m sure), check out the illuminating, if scary, article about pandemic flu in this [...]
Filed under: H1N1 (Swine Flu), News & Research | 4 people talking »
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