Swine Flu: 5 Methods to Keep Your Kids
Swine Flue has parents seriously worried. With the suspected death toll mounting in Mexico and at least 64 confirmed cases in the United States, there’s good reason to worry. One New York City school is closed because dozens of students have fallen ill.
Parental fears get amplified when the public-health experts say, correctly, that they don’t know what’s going to happen next. “We don’t know how worried we need to be,” says Joseph Bocchini, chairman of the department of pediatrics at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. “We know that this is a virus that has caused severe disease in Mexico. But so far the cases that we know of in the United States have been mild. The potential for this to become a pandemic is real, but we don’t know how likely that is.”
Is it time to start hoarding Tamiflu and face masks? Not yet, Bocchini told me today. “We don’t need to change what we routinely do for our children right now,” he says. Instead, he says, parents can put their worry to good use by getting prepared, in case this outbreak turns out to be really ugly.
Here are five ways to do something about protecting your family from swine flu without going bonkers, gleaned from pediatricians like Bocchini and other experts:
1. If a family member has a flulike illness, call the right away. The new swine flu can be treated with antiviral medicines, but those medicines work only if taken within a day or two after symptoms start.
2. To reduce the risk of infection, follow the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 5 simple habits: (a) Keep your distance from people who are sick; (b) make sure family members wash their hands often; (c) stay home when sick; (d) cover your mouth and nose when coughing; and (e) avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
3. Cancel that trip to Cancún. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends postponing nonessential travel to Mexico until the outbreak there is resolved.
4. Start thinking about what your family would do if your school or day-care center were closed because of swine flu cases in your community. Many companies have emergency plans that encourage telecommuting, for instance.
5. Keep current with the swine flu news. The closely tracks cases, as does the World Health Organization’s swine flu site.
I take some comfort in knowing that my fellow mommybloggers are also freaking out over swine flu. New York Times parenting columnist Lisa Belkin even copped to dragging a sniffly kid to the doctor yesterday for a flu test. She knew in her heart that the sniffles were just allergies. The doctor probably knew, too. But in these scary times, no doc is going to give a parent a hard time for wanting to lay those worries to rest.
Swine Flu: 5 Methods to Keep Your Kids
August 18th, 2009 | maheshkumarji(H1N1 Flu Swine Flu)
June 13th, 2009 | maheshkumarjiAs a saying that “prevention is better than cure” so before some thing happens wrong to us we must have to take care our body fitness. We should have use herbal treatments rather than heavy English medicines. Get up early morning and go some green place for yoga’s. Take proper food, by avoiding fast foods. Take regular sleep. “Early bed to early rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
In 1918 a human influenza virus known as the Spanish flu spread through the central United States while a swine respiratory disease occurred concurrently. A Kansas State University researcher has found that the virus causing the pandemic was able to infect and replicate in pigs, but did not kill them, unlike in other mammalian hosts like monkeys, mice and ferrets where the infection has been lethal.
The researchers did not find a significant difference in effects from the 1918 and 1930 viruses in infected pigs. This was surprising, since the 1918 virus killed more than 20 million people and was lethal to ferrets, mice and macaques. Another surprising finding from the study was the rapid antibody response in the animals infected with the 1918 virus, which is not typically reported for the swine influenza virus.
“We do not know how this virus will behave under conditions typically found in the developing world,” WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan said Thursday. She said the agency expects to see a “bleaker” picture as the virus makes its way to Africa and Asia.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said officials were concerned people in poorer countries and those fighting other health problems like malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and pneumonia might be more susceptible to swine flu.
On Friday, WHO said that 74 countries had reported nearly 30,000 cases including 145 deaths. But so far, the virus appears to be mild. Most people don’t need medical treatment to get better.
But the virus might have a more devastating effect in people with underlying health problems. About half of the people who have died from swine flu have had complications like asthma, diabetes, and obesity.
“We do not know how this virus will behave under conditions typically found in the developing world,” WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan said Thursday. She said the agency expects to see a “bleaker” picture as the virus makes its way to Africa and Asia.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said officials were concerned people in poorer countries and those fighting other health problems like malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and pneumonia might be more susceptible to swine flu.
There is also concern that the virus could mutate over the coming months to a more dangerous flu outbreak later in the year, and a vaccine produced now might be less effective in preventing its spread.
But don’t worry member’s WHO try their best to root out this problem. As we know that need is the mother of invention. So very soon we will get the solution for it.
Swine flu has become the hot matter of concern
June 10th, 2009 | maheshkumarjiNow a day’s swine flu has become the hot matter of concern just like AIDS. The handful cases of H1N1 virus has made much upset, Singapore is warning its citizens to avoid travel to the badly affected southern state, Victoria. Several professional rugby players have been quarantined after a player contracted the H1N1 virus. A military parade near Canberra was canceled after a cadet fell ill with swine flu. The hospital where the man died informed county health officials of the death Monday. Citing privacy laws, the officials declined to release details about the victim, including his age, city of residence, and when and where he died.
Really swine flu has made a terror in the heart of common people.
How to make body fitness?
June 9th, 2009 | maheshkumarjiAs all of us know that “Health is the Wealth”. If you are healthy you can take all enjoys of life, A patient neither full fill his dreams nor play better role in life. To make body fitness each one have the need of proper exercise, As a saying early bad to early rise makes man healthy and wise. So Yoga has become as much as important as good diet to keep proper fitness.
Now days many types of diseases occur in this society, it is the effect of pollution, so it is the first and prime duty How to make body fitness?
