How do you know if your child has h1n1 or swine fluc

U.S. health officials said: Over the last three years, deaths among children from the regular seasonal h1n1 flu ranged from 46 to 88, Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during an afternoon press conference.

How do you know if your child has h1n1 or swine fluc?

Swine flu is an infection of the nose, throat, and (sometimes) lungs. Your young child with swine flu will usually have a fever of 100 °F or higher and a sore throat or a cough. Other symptoms you may notice:

• Chills, sore muscles, and headache
• Runny nose
• Acting tired and cranky much of the time
• Diarrhea and vomiting

When your child’s fever goes down, many of these symptoms should get better.

What are the symptoms of h1n1 flu in children?

1. Children with influenza have a sudden onset of fever, chills, sore throat, cough, and runny nose. It may also cause headache, muscle aches, tiredness, nausea, vomiting and belly ache.
2. Influenza is different from the common cold, but it can be hard to tell which illness someone has. Typically, a child with a cold can have a stuffy nose, sneezing, scratchy throat, hoarse voice, dry cough (usually from mucous dripping down the throat), and slight fever. Even with cold symptoms, people generally can keep up with their usual activities. more H1N1 flu Symptoms

What should I do if my child has fever and other flu symptoms?

Most people should recover from the new H1N1 flu without needing medical care. Here’s what you need to do:

• Keep your sick child at home until at least 24 hours after there is no longer a fever or signs of a fever (without the use of a fever-reducing medicine).
• Call the school or daycare to notify that your child has flu symptoms.
• Do not take your child to the mall, grocery store, or any place where he/she might expose others to the flu.
• Do not give aspirin or aspirin-containing products (like Pepto Bismol®) to children 18 years of age and younger. This increases the risk of Reye syndrome.
• Children older than 6 months can take acetaminophen (Tylenol®) or ibuprofen (Advil®, Motrin®, Nuprin®) for relief of fever.
• Do not give over-the-counter cold medicines to children younger than 4 years of age.

Supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu should be plentiful, but there have been shortages of the liquid form given to children, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden(director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ) said ,  To help overcome that shortage, the federal government is releasing the 234,000 remaining doses of liquid Tamiflu that have been stockpiled, he said.

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