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Swine Flu Cases Overestimated? (CBS News Exclusive)
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Anonymous
Heading misleadig quote from article:I "If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu. In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation. " The above is a critical distinction. I read so many ppl on this forum stating 'oh we prob. had it', etc.. There are so many cold-viruses this time of year that just because your child had a fever, cough and runny nose does NOT mean that you can assume it was swine flu. Unless you actually were tested and received a diagnosis based on a lab result---assume it wasn't and get the vaccine. |
Anonymous
Or go on the CDC website and go over their checklist of symptoms. (We had each and every one.) |
Anonymous
| I totally agree. I just finished a course of tamiflu I'm prety sure i didn't need. Was never even seen by a doc - described by symptoms over the phone and got a prescription as a 'better safe than sorry' thing, since I'm pregnant. But I truly think I just had a bad cold and will still get vaccinated against H1N1. |
Anonymous
why in the world did you take the tamiflu if you didn't even think you had the flu? you act like that's someone else's fault but your own. |
Anonymous
The woman is pregnant during flu season. That's bad enough. There's no need to berate her. |
Anonymous
I disagree. She needs to start taking responsibility for her health and the health of her child. |
Anonymous
Seems to me that's exactly what she did by taking the Tamiflu. Given the higher rate at which pregnant women are hospitalized with H1N1 and that Tamiflu has been approved for use by pregnant women, I would have done the same thing. |
Anonymous
You would have? You would have taken the tamiflu then blamed the doctor for giving you a prescription you didn't think you needed? she said she didn't think she even had the flu. My point is, she is an adult and she is responsible for taking a prescription drug she didn't think she needed. |
Anonymous
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Tamiflu has a very narrow window - if you don't take it within a time frame you can't take it. She was probably scared in the heat of the moment - and followed her doctor's advice. The dr. might not have felt there was time for testing. Not every dr. is part of the surveillance monitoring.
Hindsight is 20/20 or however that expression goes. |
Anonymous
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11:59 here. I never blamed my doctor, so chill, everyone. (I'll admit I'm peeved that when I outright asked about possible harm to the baby and he said it was fine, which isn't the whole truth.) Beyond that, I described my symptoms, he said it was possible and prefer I was better safe than sorry, so I took it for a few days until I did my own research, decided I didn't have enough of a diagnosis to risk the harm to the baby, and stopped it. Feel much better now, and am even more confident I never had H1N1.
My only point was that I am probably among the people being counted as having had it. But I can't blame my OB for being overly cautious, and I'm sure there are many others in my boat that also appear in these statistics. The symptoms for H1N1 look a lot like those of a normal cold plus things that are very typical of pregnancy - stomach upset, post-nasal drip, etc. I don't know how anyone is really able to tell for sure since they aren't doing the actual tests anymore. |
Anonymous
But my child gets each and every one of the symptoms for swine flu EVERY TIME HE GETS A COLD. Seriously, even the vomiting. He has asthma, so he works himself into a tizzy when he coughs and usually vomits multiple times during the course of a cold. Maybe he doesn't have the chills or body aches, but a 2 year old can't tell you that. |