Reasons and Symptoms of Swine flu
Swine flu:
Why H1N1 rapidly spread?
If a person suffering from flu coughs or sneeze s in to the air that is taken by another person which causing rapid spread of flu. Similarly anything that taken by a flu patient is being taken by another causes rapid spread of it. Mainly swine flu affects pigs, which lead to symptoms like fever, barking, flow from nose, sneezing, difficulty in breathing and red eyes. Why pigs are mostly affected, because they are vulnerable to three diseases like swine flu, bird flu and human flu. It is difficult to understand initially because this swine flu virus causes the mixing of virus leading new variation. This mixing of virus leads to loss immunity of body.
Symptoms and high risk group:
Symptoms of swine flu are similar to usual influenza, with fever, headache, body pain, sneezing and coughing. Apart from these symptoms swine flu cause vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, chest congestion and some times lead to pneumonia.
These symptoms mostly affects to
- Pregnant women, children and elderly people.
- People with asthma or COPD.
- With Chronic heart and chronic disease.
- With liver disease.
- With Parkinsonism, Alzheimer’s disease.
- AIDS sufferers and people using immunosuppressants.
- Infants and people with diabetes mellitus.
- People over the age of 65.
Types of Influenza virus:
There are three types of influenza viruses like
- Influenza A.
- Influenza B.
- Influenza C.
The swine flu belongs to influenza A.
Diagnosis tests:
In order to confirm the occurrence of swine flu, special tests are required.
- Routine blood tests: If swine is their means it causes changes in routine blood pressure and variations in blood components are also identified with this.
- Chest X-ray: to identify pneumonia.
- Taking Nose or throat swab: By this test within 15 minutes laboratory can tell if it is type A or B influenza.
- Human influenza Virus Real-Time RT-PCR Detection and Characterization Panel is now available to identify swine flu which gives result with in 4 hours.
Treatment:
Treatment of swine flu involves from the home itself which includes isolation from children, elderly, pregnant and other high risk people. Then if flu occurs initially take Paracetamol or ibuprofen.
Anti viral drugs like Oseltamivir and Zanamivir can be used against bird flu. Emergency treatment should be taken if he needs more treatment. Now more treatment is available.
Swine flu vaccine: A swine flu vaccine is available for prevention of the infection.
Prevention of swine flu:
- Good hygiene is essential, this includes:
- Hand washing practices.
- Proper disposal of used tissues.
- Covering mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing.
- Avoid contact with people with viral infections.
- Wearing face mask.
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