The swine flu is a new virus that has been infecting people across the world.  America, Brazil, India, and Argentina seem to be the worst hit at the moment.  In order to best prepare for the flu, it’s important to know if you’ve been in contact with infected people and when you’ll start showing symptoms if you are.

The incubation period for swine flu appears to be about 48 hours for most people.  That means they will be asympomatic while infected for 48 hours.  Something to note, however, is that they can be contagious up to a day before showing symptoms.  If you think you’ve been in contact with someone that has swine flu, it’s best to isolate yourself for a day or two to see if you’re sick with the virus.  

While the incubation period for the flu is important, you’ll also want to know how long you can be contagious after symptoms.  Studies have shown that many people can be contagious for up to a week after symptoms and some even after two weeks.  The best thing you can do if you’ve been infected with the flu is to stay away from others for at least 5 days after symptoms have resolved, especially around high-risk groups.

Here are some tips to help you optimize your chances of survival after you’ve been in contact with or contracted the swine flu:

Watch for signs of secondary infection after you’ve been infected with the swine flu.  The best way to know if you are suffering from a secondary infection is if you start to make a recovery and then get sicker a couple days later.  If this happens, you should go to the hospital right away.  Many people actually die from MRSA, Strep, or pneumonia after catching the flu.  These are still flu-related deaths, but aren’t actually from the swine flu.  This is because it destroys your immune system and leaves your lungs raw and open to infection. Stay hydrated.  The flu has great capability to dehydrate you while you’re infected.  This is because you’ll likely run a fever and the flu can also induce dysentary and vomiting, both of which lead to dehydration.  Being dehydrated lowers your immune system and will make you more sick.  So make sure you drink plenty of water! Take Tamiflu right away if you’re sick.  While the flu is slowly becoming resistant to the antiviral, it is still the first line of defense against this deadly virus.  If you can, take it while the virus is still in its incubation period.  That is, take it as a preventative dose.  Some doctors won’t give you a prescription for that, however. Stay calm and make sure you prepare for the worst.  This means stockpile enough food for at least 2 weeks and make sure that you’ll be able to survive if the flu hits your community particularly hard.  Some good news is that the flu only seems to infect about 5% of the population per “wave” in a community, coming back later to infect more.  If this continues to be a trend, then there might not be as large of an overload per community as originally anticipated.

I’m a Christian (- not just in the word) and if I saw this question posted by anyone else, I’ve got to be honest I’d have a million answers, but this isn’t anyone else. It’s me. It’s me, who up at 4:30 in the morning writing this. My life revolves around voluntary work at church, my friends and my illness. For the past 9 days and goodness knows how much longer, I’ve had two of the three taken away from me, due to my flat mate coming down with Swine Flu. She’s been really bad and I’ve been waiting on her every need, but due close contact, my church has placed me in quarantine though I’ve had no symptoms – (incubation period. ) I’ve not been able to see people and few people have bothered phoning except to fine out how my flat mate is? I cope with boredom a lot – due to my illness and use a lot of distraction techniques – I’m creative – write/draw, exercise, email, mess on this site, but I am also able to see people. This is driving me to less Christian forms of distraction like vodka. I know this is wrong, but equally I don’t know what else to stop myself going down the route of blaming God, my church or my friend. I’m bored stupid and just want to knock myself out until it’s over.

Epidemic of swine influenza can be prevented by the self-hemotherapy
In times of crisis, and in particular that we are living now, all possible resources to mitigate the effects of the crisis must be sought and evaluated.
Since 2004, the Brazilians are aware of the therapeutic procedure in the very old and traditional medical and veterinary, known as self-hemotherapy from a video circulated on the Internet through You Tube, containing an interview with Dr. Luiz Moura, resident doctor in Rio de Janeiro.
Subsequently the procedure was banned by ANVISA in 2007, which fortunately did not prevent many people who continue using the procedure in the treatment and prevention of many diseases such as acne, arthritis, asthma, amidalite, gout, influenza and even several diseases auto-immune. After the ban, the patients who were using the self-hemotherapy were mobilized in their defense and have signed a petition addressed to the President of the Republic, requesting the release of the practice claiming that it is a therapeutic procedure with no known risk to the patient and extremely effective in the prevention of diseases in general, since it is a nonspecific vaccine, capable of strengthening the immune system against various diseases, including influenza, caused by different types of viruses.
As the world lives in a climate of panic because the risk of swine flu appeared in Mexico in abril/2009, becoming a global pandemic like the Spanish flu of 1918, which some estimates reached 50 million deaths, or the Asian flu 1968, our duty to re consider the question of the use of self-hemotherapy in Brazil. The Spanish flu came to Brazil in October 1918 and remained for several weeks, until the end of November, but it was enough to kill at least 35 thousand people, mostly in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. According to scholars and medical specialists worldwide, a new influenza pandemic occurs more or less every 40 years and was last recorded in 1968, influenza in Hong Kong or Asia, where it is estimated that killed some 4 million people in the world. So 1918 + 50 = 1968 + 40 = 2008. Influenza was late, but arrived. Not by chance the World Health Organization (WHO) with the assistance of experts from around the world is pointing since the end of the 90s about the threat of an influenza pandemic in this new century. It is believed that, despite the current resources in the medical field and in the best condition of health of the global population, the ease of transport and the huge mass of people to move to each corner of the world each day will be able to spread the virus to all continents in only 4 days.
Taking into account that the application of preventive injection of the patient’s own blood, taken from the vein and apply the muscle has the property of strengthening the reticule-endothelial system (immune system) as it stimulates the body to increase the number of macrophages in the blood from 5% to 22% in 8 hours after application, maintaining that level for 5 days, is extremely useful, given the epidemic of swine flu, the application of the vaccine, not only for Brazilians who will travel to Mexico, but also to Mexicans have not yet hit by flu, which already has the mortality rate of 6%, demonstrating that this is really an epidemic of great gravity.
If the epidemic spread to other countries, which seems inevitable as the daily traffic of persons from Mexico and the disease continues to have an incubation period of 3 to 7 days, just a passenger contaminated by viruses, into a country to create conditions for transmission of the virus to others and so on. Is provided only as a vaccine specific for this strain of influenza in swine in about 6 months, by then the epidemic will have produced a disaster of major proportions.
Moreover we know that the influenza virus, the cause of influenza, because of their constant mutability, requires the production of new medicines. Even the vaccine, an important innovation emerged in the mid 90s, could have reduced efficacy in terms of the characteristic of the disease to submit to each winter with a new look.
As this is an emergency, we believe the prudent application of the injection of blood from the patient’s own vein (5 ml. ), With an interval of 5 days to maintain the body with the index of macrophages in blood around 22% especially if the epidemic really is installed and remain for a long time.
Obviously we can not ignore also the food, which must be of good quality, including vegetables, legumes and fruits, especially citrus and those with large amounts of vitamin C, such as cherry, kiwi, cashew, etc. . Clearly, in the case of an epidemic, we must also avoid agglomerations, indoors, cinemas, theaters, etc. , using surgical masks for protection, and goggles to protect eyes, can also absorb the virus.
And there are no contra-indications for the procedure of self-hemotherapy believe a humanitarian issue, before the current

I’m a Christian (- not just in the word) and if I saw this question posted by anyone else, I’ve got to be honest I’d have a million answers, but this isn’t anyone else. It’s me. It’s me, who up at 4:30 in the morning writing this. My life revolves around voluntary work at church, my friends and my illness. For the past 9 days and goodness knows how much longer, I’ve had two of the three taken away from me, due to my flat mate coming down with Swine Flu. She’s been really bad and I’ve been waiting on her every need, but due close contact, my church has placed me in quarantine though I’ve had no symptoms – (incubation period. ) I’ve not been able to see people and few people have bothered phoning except to fine out how my flat mate is? I cope with boredom a lot – due to my illness and use a lot of distraction techniques – I’m creative – write/draw, exercise, email, mess on this site, but I am also able to see people. This is driving me to less Christian forms of distraction like vodka. I know this is wrong, but equally I don’t know what else to stop myself going down the route of blaming God, my church or my friend. I’m bored stupid and just want to knock myself out until it’s over.

i just found out a little bit ago that my SIL who watches my son 4 days a week has tested positive for the swine flu. . . he hasn’t been with her since friday. . . i know i am posting this in the parenting section. . . . . . i have tried calling my pediatrician’s office but was on hold for like 20 minutes. . . . just curious as to if anyone here knows