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Without complications, most patients overcomes flu

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Symptoms equal to the common flu. More intense, however. This is how people who supposedly had the influenza A (H1N1) characterize the disease. After a few days in bed and high fever, the flu goes away, and arrived - to the Ministry of Health show that this occurs in 95% of cases.

The public official Roberto (not his real name), 28, surprised the fact that, after coming in contact with Chileans who seemed to be sick, feel flu-like symptoms, high fever, which did not go away with antipyretics. "I had a fever of 38.7 º C from 12 years. I got to 39.9 º C and in the intervals of the drug, at 40 º C. The fever did not go away, "he says. Seven days later now, was good again. No hospitalization or stronger medication.

A retired educator Eliza Terezinha Gusso Netzka, 53, also not sure if his son, businessman Henrique Guzzo Netzka 23, had the flu, but has strong suspicions. "It was quite disturbing. The symptoms were similar to those of a common cold, but stronger, "he says.

The journey of Henrique to Foz do Iguaçu, Paraguai and Argentina in early July is one of the factors that Eliza is thinking that the boy was a patient of influenza A. He fell ill after returning home. "I had fever --- en charca the sheet. I was scared because it was the beginning and did not find medical support. How is a new disease, doctors did not know what to do yet, "says Eliza. Two employees of Henrique also became ill and were isolated at home. Today, all are well and back to normal life. Examination? "So far we do not know the outcome."

In some cases, be put in a home was not enough. The landscape Valeria Santiago, 47, do not forget the torture that has to take care of two people with suspected new influenza: a daughter, Amanda, 24, and her boyfriend at the same age. After following them for twice the doctor and return home with only two treated with an antipyretic, the symptoms worsened. Amanda came to be hospitalized for 24 hours in a hospital. Boyfriend spent three days in an intensive care unit (ICU) and only improved after he was treated with Tamiflu, a medicine used in more severe cases of influenza A.

Today, the two young people are well and healthy. Returned to work and study. The test results for proof of diagnosis for influenza A were not yet ready, even though they spent more than 20 days. Whatever the outcome, Amanda thinks she and her boyfriend even had influenza A. "A common cold does not take my boyfriend to the ICU," he says. "When I have the common cold so I have no fever. I had tachycardia and difficulty breathing. When he was speaking, had to stop, breathe, you can continue. "

Clinical examination is not sufficient

According to the director of the System of Emergency and Emergency Department of Health Department of Curitiba, Matheos Chomatas, the clinical symptoms there is no way by which a person with flu virus is contaminated. But the chance that someone is infected by the flu new virus is greater than the chance of having caught the virus seasonal influenza.

Laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis of influenza A have been made only in severe cases and death.

There are chances, however, that the case of the new virus, since almost 60% of the examinations held in Curitiba show the occurrence of influenza virus A (H1N1), 20% of seasonal influenza and the rest is not charging anything. The important thing, however, according Chomatas, you know that less than 1% of those infected have major complications and one-third of these require care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

"Most people have mild to moderate cases. Some do not realize they were the flu, "says the president of the Paraguayan Infetologia, Alceu Fontana Pacheco, who arrived by the new flu, with laboratory confirmation. "My wife had a febrinha and a little pain in the body. I had severe prostration and spent three days in bed, "he says.

What has frightened the public, however, he explains, is that young people are also being affected by more severe - the common cold, the group that suffers most complications are the elderly. (TC)



Source: Gazeta do Povo

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