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Swine Flu Symptoms | Hotline Phone Numbers | Swine Flu VirusBY: Nouman Umar | Category: Health and Fitness | Post Date: 2009-07-28
Important information regarding Swine flu. Precautions, prevention and Swine flu symptoms. The National Pandemic Flu Service of Britain said people should contact their doctor directly if they: * Have a serious underlying illness. * Are pregnant. * Have a sick child under one year old. * The condition suddenly gets much worse. * The condition is still getting worse after seven days for adults or five days for a child. In all Swine Flu cases, please consult your doctor or resident nurse, atleast by phone to get latest recommendations. Some official government websites on Swine Flu:For latest Information on Swine Flu.. visit: * USA: http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/ * INDIA: http://www.mohfw.nic.in/SWINEFLU.htm Frequently Asked Questions: * CANADA: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/swine_200904-eng.php SWINE FLU HOTLINE Phone Numbers:* Indian Government Swine flu information helpline phone number: Outbreak Monitoring Cell (Control Room, NICD): : 011-23921401 * Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) helpline desk has also been set up and the phone number is 20250050. San Francisco Swine Flu Hotline Phone Number: Information about the virus will be available through the city's 311 number as a recorded message, and will also allow members of the public to leave a message with questions or concerns. * Florida/USA swine flu hotline at: 1-800-775-8039 * Nevada/USA: Hotline's phone number is 866-767-5038. * A free hotline phone number in Britain for people who think they have contracted the H1N1 virus, is set to open this afternoon in England. The National Pandemic Flu Service is the first of its kind in the world. 1500 operators working under supervision from medical staff, will offer diagnosis over the phone, and coordinate the delivery of drugs to those infected in England. The service will also provide an online questionnaire for people at home to diagnose themselves. SWINE FLU SYMPTOMS: (Src: msnbc.msn.com/id/30786326/) SWINE FLU VIDEO:PLEASE WATCH THIS VERY GOOD VIDEO Basic precautions against Swine Flu.:H1N1 virus prevention tips: 1. Wash your hands frequently: Washing hands with soap frequently is one of the best way to lower your chances of getting bacteria and virus. 2. Avoid public places and crowded areas: If possible, make least number of trips outside your home. Avoid clubs, movie halls and crowded market places as much as possible or make fewest trips possible. Avoid touching your mouth and nose till you have got back home and washed your hands. 3. Avoid contacting people who have flu like symptoms: They may very well be infected with Swine flu already. 4. Keep informed: Always read the press releases from your health officials. Contact a doctor whenever you think its needed. 5. Wear high quality masks if you are concerned: Masks are really not a good idea for the most part because it causes panic among others, but if you do not have a strong immune system then go for it. But regular masks provide only limited protection. 6. Cover your mouth and your nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze to prevent spreading your own germs. 7. Get plenty of sleep; be physically active; manage your stress; drink plenty of fluids; eat nutritious food. 8. If one gets sick with influenza, one must stay at home, away from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them. 9. Tulsi leaves may cure Swine flu Ref: in.news.yahoo.com/242/20090812/1512/tls-indian-natural-herb-tulsi-to-fight-b_1.html Ayurveda has the remedy for Swine flu in the form of the miraculous herb, the basil leaves commonly known as Tulsi. Even when a person has already contracted swine flu, Tulsi can help in speeding up the recovery process. Important Websites for Swine Flu in India: www.mohfw.nic.in; www.nicd.nic.in ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SWINE FLU: (Britain) Since July 23, care of patients of Swine Flu /Influenza A/H1N1 is assigned to general practitioners and not only to hospitals. What changes for patients? Who to contact in case of flu-like symptoms? When to go to the hospital? How soon before the arrival of vaccines ... Doctissimo answers your questions. Here are 10 changes in the management of pandemic influenza A/H1N1, following the press conference of the Ministry of Health of 22 July 20091 1 - The doctor becomes the primary Since July 23, sick of influenza A / Swine Flu should not call the 15, but through their doctor. In case of high fever (> 38.5 ° C), cough, fatigue, you do not need to spend more by the UAS but call your family doctor. The decision of the treatment to follow. Most often, it will be limited to paracetamol and rest. The prevention recommendations are still valid: washing hands several times a day with soap or a hydro-alcoholic solution, using a tissue to cough or sneeze and put used tissues in a wastebasket and a hand washing. 2 - An organization to establish the firm How general practitioners be able to accommodate these cases of influenza without risking contamination of seeing other patients? Ideally, two different waiting rooms would be required but for most firms, such an organization is difficult if not impossible. "Everything depends on the number of patients: 5 or 45 patients per day? If premises do not adapt, the time slots dedicated to patients will be seized to provide and use barriers that the measures we recommend to our patients cleaning the door handles wear masks ... We will adapt to the reality that will change every day, "said Dr. Martial Koehret Olivier, president of the union MG France. Fitting geographically, time slots, capacity management of care during the summer months ... "This will require adjustments along the water." 3 - General sufficiently informed and prepared? The Minister responsible initiatives have multiplied of information to GPs: 300,000 training kits and information sent two years ago, 450,000 kits including protective masks and protective spray, training sessions in 2006 and 2007 in all regions, information directly to customers DGS Urgent, two preparatory meetings with the unions in early July and a letter sent to the 80,000 general practitioners, pulmonologists and pediatricians July 15. Finally according to the Minister, the Prefect must meet doctors from 23 July and before 10 August during a briefing. These meetings should also be used to adapt the management of the epidemic through the "lift the ground" professionals. A site dedicated to health professionals to provide medical information but also national regional epidemic. Large stocks of masks FFP2 (providing for protection from the virus) and spray masks (the infected) are distributed from a single point in the regions since early May. Today, 16 distribution centers are operational. "Tomorrow should cover all departments," says Thierry Coudert, managing director of the hospital preparedness and response to health emergencies. 4 - No systematic Tami flu ® Only cases potentially benefit the most serious of Tami flu ®, the famous new antiviral available in pharmacies and reimbursed by health insurance. No indication for preventive medicine is recommended, since the contrary view that such use could promote the emergence of resistance to antiviral drugs. In a pandemic, stocks made by the Government will be sufficient, according to the Minister of Health Roselyne Bachelot which urges the public not to constitute personal reservations: "We have enough antiviral treatments to address a wide pandemic. No effect cabinet! Doctors are the guarantors of the proper use of antiviral drugs and I know I can count on them. - 5 - The hospital reserved for severe cases of Swine Flu Only children less than 1 year (through their parents) or victims of complications of influenza should contact the 15 or go to the hospital. Hospitals have to use antiviral drugs for children. Where appropriate, the physician can guide the serious cases to hospital. But because of the less formidable profile of the virus and its active movement throughout the territory, the hospital is no longer the centerpiece of the national plan of care for patients. 6 - Masks free pharmacy From 23 July, spray-masks to wear by the patient (to avoid contaminating the environment in case of infection and not to protect the virus) will be issued free pharmacy if they have been prescribed by the doctor. Director General of the establishment of preparedness and response to health emergencies, Thierry Coudert specifies that "the deployment of masks to the metropolitan territory agencies will be completed July 23 in the afternoon. For Reunion and New Caledonia, the transaction will be completed July 27. 7 - More systematic research of the Swine Flu virus Given the spread of the Swine Flu virus (and its harmful effect on), the naso-pharyngeal sampling to find the Swine Flu /Influenza A/H1N1 virus is no longer mandatory. It is now assumed that flu-like symptoms necessarily reflect confirmed infection with influenza A. This also means that the procedures associated with localized outbreaks of infection (isolation of sick children in summer camps for example) will be triggered without infection by Swine Flu/influenza A/H1N1 virus is confirmed by analysis laboratory. 8 - Vaccines against pneumococcus recommended for some people The Society of Infectious Pathology (SPILF), the SFLS (French Society for the Fight against AIDS) and CNGE (National College of Teachers GPs) recommend enhancing pneumococcal vaccination in some people fragilisées2. Should be vaccinated: respiratory insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency, patients with alcoholic chronic liver disease, people with a history of invasive lung infection or pneumonia, patients with functional asplenia or splénectomisés, patients with homozygous sickle cell disease the patients with nephritic syndrome and patients with HIV infection and having a CD4 count> 200/mm3. The aim is to prevent the population in these pneumococcal infections of influenza. 9 - The best vaccine available in October 94 million doses ordered were commissioned by the government in three different laboratories (Sanofi-Pasteur: 28 million doses, GlaxoSmithKline: 50 Novartis and 16). Based laboratories, the doses should be delivered between October and December 2009. Given that vaccination require two doses three weeks apart and a time of incubation before being protected, some fear that the first doses arrive after the peak of the pandemic ... If England is considering making the deadlock on the placing on the market (AMM) European (via emergency procedures), France seems more prudent. The epidemiological situation of France is less cause for concern. If the virus retains a moderate virulence, France could wait for the European marketing authorization prior to vaccination. Today, the vaccine strategy was not arrested, but no mandatory vaccination is now considered. Depending on the evolution of the epidemic, this mass vaccination could be achieved in immunization centers or physicians. 10 - Management of stocks of medicines and masks to improve It is the establishment of preparedness and response to health emergencies (Eprus) that manages a stock valued at 845 million Euros, including 33 million antiviral 1 billion surgical masks and 537 million protective masks FFP2. His action was criticized by a report from the centrist Senator Jean-Jacques Jégou3. Among the criticisms made, there is a dispersion and heterogeneity of the 72 storage sites, uncertainty related to exceeding the expiry date of products, storage products in places sometimes inadequate, lack of clarity between the roles attributed to the public, health agencies and various departments ... without putting into question the creation of the Eprus, the report estimates that these findings could "pose difficulties in coordinating health emergencies" ... Beme David, 22 July 2009 1 - Press conference of the Ministry of Health - 22 July 2009 2 - Press Release - Vaccination against pneumococcal in adults and pandemic influenza H1N1 - Release of 6 July 2009 3 - Report "Managing the Development of preparation and response to health emergencies (EPRUS) the stock of health products made in the event of a terrorist attack or pandemic" - Jean-Jacques Jogo - Press Conference July 22 2009. Additional information was added to this article later to make it more informative. Thanks to Dr. Jay for sending more useful information. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Nouman is a seo consultant and online marketer. Additional Articles: * Hawaii honeymoon for the recently Hitched * Fasting is a healthy practice. * LIFE AS A HOUSE MAID IN MY OWN HOME * Make a sketch of the Day | A healthy time management * Indian Premier League and controversies of IPL Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? 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