If you suspect that you have been infected with influenza, it is recommended that you visit your doctor as soon as possible. If you start taking treatment for flu within the first two days of symptoms appearing, the duration as well as the severity of the symptoms may be reduced. Today, there are effective medications available that can help you treat influenza quickly.

Maintain Hygiene to Prevent Infecting Others

Once your doctor confirms that you are infected with the influenza virus, it is imperative that you maintain good personal hygiene to prevent infecting others. Wash your hands often with soap or an alcohol rub. Cover your face while sneezing or coughing and carefully dispose of the tissues that you’ve sneezed on. As the swine flu virus can survive for up to 24 hours on a hard surface, it is also essential to keep clean commonly-touched hard surfaces like door handles or railings, telephones or computer keyboards. You should also try and stay home if you fall sick to avoid infecting others.

Drink Plenty of Fluids

Experts advise that you drink plenty of water and avoid drinking alcohol and smoking. It has been observed that the symptoms of influenza, such as body aches and pains are made worse by dehydration. You’re losing water anyway through sweating, due to high fever, so caution should be taken to avoid further dehydration. So, remember to drink water, even if you are not thirsty.

Get Lots of Rest

People infected with influenza should get as much rest as possible. Do not report to work or school if you are infected. This will help you recover quickly and will also help to prevent you from infecting others. Rest helps allows your immune system the resources it needs to fight influenza.

Take Anti-Inflammatory Medications

Use of anti-inflammatory medicines such as Ibuprofen can help to reduce fever and also reduce the severity of the body aches. However, these medications will not help to shorten the duration of the sickness. Do not take anti-inflammatory medicines if you have a history of stomach ulcers or bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract.

Take Flu Medication

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of anti-viral medications such as Tamiflu for the treatment as well as prevention of flu. The medicine helps us to fight both influenza A and B virus effectively. It works by preventing the spread of the virus through the body and thereby reduces the duration and the intensity of flu symptoms. To get the best results from flu medicines, it is imperative that you start taking the treatment within two days of the appearance of the symptoms or within two days of being exposed to the virus. As Tamiflu is a prescription drug, you should always consult your doctor before taking it.

I know that sounds like a good book but it is our current event. Is it possible that companies actually work on creating viruses? Seems strange why would anyone do that? Also I was thinking if you were working on a virus as a company for research or whatever would you not excersive great caution? Considering that you could potentially kill millions of people if the spread could not be contained. Another thing i was wondering is how exactly does one get permission to work on a strain of virus? I would think there would be a whole lot of paperwork involved in the process. Let alone wouldn’t it be locked up some place safe to keep it away from civilization?

It sounds to me that we are dealing with another fubar someone much further up the chain than I decided to fester upon us. But it does bring to light the incompetencies this nation keeps having to repair will be the death of us if we don’t change our ways. Making continued mistakes that cost taxpayers billions per year has got to end.

Make sure to use your own due diligence in researching the swine flu. Most indications are to treat this like any other flu and use precation. Keep Good Sanitary Conditions in your surroundings and on your persons and you should be able to avoid the virus.

Everyone was worried. There was an air of inevitability to the spread of swine flu… or so it seemed. But it soon became clear that the current swine flu epidemic was not the same as the 1918 Spanish flu. Of course it can still prove to be as devastating as its early 20th century counterpart, but for now its threat level has abated… substantially.

Why did the media make so much noise about the of the threat of swine flu? Over the same period of time thousands of people died of the normal seasonal flu as well as a number of other persistent human diseases. Why didn’t these diseases get as much coverage?

Swine flu was new; we had no protection against it. Its potential was unknown, its capacity to cause devastation was a real possibility. But was this reason enough for the over-exaggerated coverage of the disease by the media?

The more cynical among us will be quick to point out that we are in the middle of 2009 and are currently undergoing a global recession. What could distract the masses more than the threat of a killer disease? What could invoke the fear of God more than the prospect of facing one’s own mortality in light of a devastating, indiscriminate, rapidly transmitted disease?

But could this be true? Could the media have deliberately stoked-up the threat of swine flu to distract, confuse and upset their audience?

Possibly… but not likely.

Firstly, why would the media take such a course of action? Who would benefit the most? Surely not the media themselves, they’ve already taken some criticism for their over-exuberant coverage of the swine flu epidemic. The only ones that would benefit from such coverage are the major governments of the world, not necessarily the media themselves.

Secondly, what do we mean by the ‘media’? Are we talking about one interconnected, interrelated conglomerate that are seemingly separate but in reality are one united global organization? There is no evidence to substantiate this idea and it smells too much of a conspiracy theory.

Why the media covered the swine flu epidemic the way they did was because they had no choice. If we remember back to early 2004 when cases of avian flu just came to light we can see that the media coverage was just as intense. There are tragic historically reasons for not taking swine flu or any potential pandemic lightly.

Pandemics unlike diseases like cholera or malaria are not local and are not isolated to instances where an area suffers from poor hygiene. Pandemics are global. Anybody, anywhere can catch a disease that has reached true pandemic status. Millions, even billions of people could potentially be infected with the disease. The potential devastation of a major pandemic is phenomenal. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic infected one third of the world’s population and killed more than 50 million people. In the last century, pandemics killed more people than all the worlds natural disasters put together. The scales of death caused by pandemics were comparable to those of world wars.

So in view of the potential of pandemics the media had no option but to cover the swine flu situation the way they did. The more informed we are, the more prepared we are and we can’t be too informed when it comes to something as potentially dangerous as a new form of influenza.

Less widely appreciated is that a pandemic need not even reach your door in order to be able to kill you or a family member. During a severe pandemic you could literally starve to death while never having come in close contact with the virus. This is just one of the conclusions I reached after reading Survive Pandemic Flu which will have you rethinking just how much you really understand about your own place in the world. Because it turns out that we are a lot more delicately positioned than we like to believe.

Here is what I am talking about. Get up from your chair and head to the kitchen and make a quick inventory of the amount of food you have. How long would it last you if you discovered tomorrow that the shelves would be empty in the stores where you shop? Most retailers today work on a “just in time” model – they stock just enough product to keep the shelves full for a few days, and restock just as frequently as new shipments come in. Nobody stores in quantity any more because their margins are too thin to accommodate the extra expense. So any disruption to the fulfillment line means rapid onset of delivery problems, to stores, to customers, to you and your family.

In the event of a national crisis that should knock out truck drivers – and this could simply be due to fear that once they get in their trucks and embark on a long haul they will not be available if a family member falls gravely ill during a pandemic – the panic sweeping of inventory by consumers could easily clear store shelves in as little as 24 hours, leaving whatever you have in your cupboards as the only food and water you may be able to get your hands on for weeks.

Your neighbors will be facing the exact same dilemma, so don’t bother looking to them to bail you out. Nor should you expect the government to come rushing in with supplies to help you. That kind of thing happens only during local emergencies, not the kind of nation-wide threat we are talking about here where *everyone* is experiencing the same kind of disruptions to their normal existence.

If you are lucky enough to have a huge stockpile of food in your home – enough to get you through the crisis with some rationing – you will not want to advertise the fact. If your neighbor is faced with the option of either watching his family starve to death, or forcibly take food and water from you to make sure that does not happen, well, your life may be threatened yet again.

As I said at the outset, a virus that causes a severe pandemic does not need to reach your door in order for it to claim your life or the life of a family member. It only has to spread fear to get the job done. This is just one of the startling conclusions you will reach yourself once you have read Survive Pandemic Flu, which you can find it here

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Swine flu is a new form of flu that was detected in the US in April 2009. In a short span of time, the infectious disease spread like a pandemic and affected large numbers of people across the world. The acute respiratory disease is known to be caused by a strain of the influenza type A virus known as H1N1. The swine flu virus contains genetic material from avian, swine and human viruses. As people had little immunity against this new type of flu, the viral disease spread very quickly. The highly infectious disease causes symptoms such as fever, cough, runny nose, body aches, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. If not treated in time, the symptoms could worsen and even lead to death.

About Tamiflu

Marketed by Roche pharmaceuticals, Tamiflu is an oral antiviral medication, which has been approved by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) for the treatment and prevention of the flu. The medicine works effectively against both influenza A and B viruses. During the outbreak of swine flu, the FDA approved the use of Tamiflu for the treatment as well as the prevention of swine flu.

How Tamiflu Works

Tamiflu is an antiviral drug that works by attacking the influenza virus and stopping it from spreading inside your body. The medication interferes with the activity of the neuraminidase enzyme and inhibits new viral particles from being released by infected cells. By preventing the spread of the virus from cell to cell, the symptoms and duration of an influenza infection are significantly reduced. Tamiflu can also be used to prevent the flu following exposure to the virus.

How to Take Tamiflu

For the treatment of swine flu virus, it is necessary to start the treatment within 48 hours of being infected. Doctors usually recommend taking Tamiflu twice a day for 5 days, once in the morning and once in the evening. You are required to complete the treatment of 10 doses, even if you feel better. To prevent getting swine flu, you need to take the medicine within 48 hours of being exposed to the virus (for instance, if someone in your home has the flu or there has been an outbreak in your community). To prevent swine flu, your doctor may suggest you to take Tamiflu once a day for 10 days, or even longer for effective influenza treatment.

How to Purchase Tamiflu

If you suspect that you may be infected with swine flu, or if you have been exposed to the disease, you should contact your doctor immediately. Ask your doctor if Tamiflu treatment is suitable for you. It is the most prescribed medication for the treatment and prevention of swine flu. These days, you can also buy Tamiflu online through online clinics.

Relenza (Zanamivir) Information:

Relenza is a medicine used to treat Influenza, or “flu”, which is caused by a virus infection. Relenza contains zanamivir.

Using a Diskhaler device, Relenza is delivered directly to the primary site of infection in the lungs. It works by destroying a chemical on the surface of the influenza virus. This stops the virus multiplying and spreading throughout the nose, lungs and air passages.

Best results are obtained by taking Relenza as soon as possible after developing symptoms.

Relenza does not work for the common cold or virus infections other than influenza.

Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why Relenza has been prescribed for you.

Relenza can be used in the treatment of influenza type A and B in children over the age of 5 years.

There is limited experience with the use of Relenza in elderly patients (65 years and older). The same dose is recommended in elderly patients.

How to take Relenza

The Pharmacist’s label on the pack will tell you how to take your Relenza. If there is something you do not understand, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

You should start taking Relenza as soon as possible, preferably within two days, after developing symptoms to get the best effect.

If you suffer from asthma, you may need to use your reliever medication before taking Relenza. You should discuss this with your doctor.

Relenza comes as a fine powder. This powder is in small pockets (known as blisters) in a round foil sheet, known as a Disk. The medicine in your Relenza Disk is taken by breathing it in through your mouth using the Relenza Diskhaler. Follow the instruction sheet that is in the box containing your Diskhaler.

You should breathe in the contents of two blisters, twice a day (usually morning and evening), for five days.

Do not miss any doses. If you forget to take a dose take it as soon as you remember, then go back to taking it as you would normally. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the dose you missed and take your next dose when you are meant to. Do not take a double dose to make up for the dose that you missed.

If you take too much (overdose) immediately telephone your doctor. If you think you or anyone else may have taken too much Relenza, even if there are no signs of discomfort or poisoning.

If you are not sure what to do, contact your doctor or pharmacist.

Please see other Swine Flu treatments: Tamiflu.

I was in San Diego taking a flight back to Virginia when I heard about this thing called Swine Flu.

Some would say California was ground zero for this outbreak in the US.  I didn’t think much about it until I arrived home to learn the outbreak was spreading at high speed.

Now I’m not much for mainstream media hype, but this thing was growing like crazy.

The H1N1 strain of the influenza virus is actually composed of several strains including swine influenza, avian influenza and a human strain of influenza.

This is what has made it so easily transmitted amongst humans!

This is something of a perfect storm when it comes to transmittable viruses.

The fact there is a strain of human influenza makes this virus easily transmittable between humans.

The deadly strain in this virus is not the human strain or even the swine strain of influenza but in fact the avian strain of influenza.

This is better known as the bird flu.

We have been told by the health experts and other leaders in our country that transmission of the swine flu to humans was highly unlikely.

I am sure they had good intentions but this goes to show that you have to take your family’s safety serious and not rely on the words of these experts.  Remember how long it took the Government to get aid to victims in New Orleans?

How can you protect yourself and your family?

Arm yourself with the knowledge that the Swine Flu Survival Guide provides.  I put this guide together to provide you with a reference of what you can do to protect yourself and your family.  This reference is intended to help you with things you can do today to protect yourself and your family.

What You Get With This Guide

Learn what Swine Flu (H1N1) is Why viruses pose a problem What makes the 2009 Swine Flu so dangerous How the Swine Flu is transmitted Symptoms of the Swine Flu Complications of the 2009 Swine Flu Treatments and Prevention Boosting your immune system

Read more and be safe from Swine Flue Symptoms now

Learn the Truth about this Killer Virus and How to Survive it. 

The Swine Flu has dragged on longer than first expected with casualties globally.

How You And Your Loved Ones Can Walk Away From Swine Flu Unscathed.

The Swine Flu Survival Guide provides you with a reference of what you can do to protect yourself and your family. 

Swine Flu Survival Guide

I have come across a program that is packed with information on helping you and your family to avoid getting the Swine Flu – the Program is called The Swine Flu Survival Guide. The Swine Flu Survival Guide Program is well documented in layman terms so it is very to follow.

Briefly what you receive with Swine Flu Survival Guide - 

Learn what Swine Flu (H1N1) is

Why viruses pose a problem 

What makes Swine Flu so Dangerous

How the Swine Flu is transmitted 

Symptoms of the Swine Flu

Complications of Swine Flu

Treatments and Prevention 

Boosting your Immune System

In this Swine Flu Survival Guide the medical jargon has been stripped down into easy to follow terms that anyone can understand. 

The Swine Flu Survival Guide is an easy to follow guide you can use to be prepared not only for this crisis but for any other flu pandemic.

The information in this book holds true and you will be glad you used it.

There are simple things you can do for your body to help protect against something like Swine Flu or Avian Flu and diminish it’s affects.

The Swine Flu Survival Guide will help you feel better knowing that you are prepared for any flu pandemic and that your loved ones are safe. 

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The Healthy Eating Guide

Topics include -

Veggies & Fruits

Fibre in Your Diet

Getting Variety 

The Truth About Fats & Carbohydrates 

Antioxidants

Meal Planning

Eating On a Budget 

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This 70 page guide will open your eyes to how you need to think about the foods you eat. Solid tips for making a change in your meal planning and some of the best sources of vitamins and minerals.This book normally sells for .00. 

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Topics include -

Lack of Vitamins

Getting the Right Amount of Vitamins

All About Vitamin A 

Vitamin B and What It Does For You 

Vitamin C

Bone Up On Vitamin D 

Vitamin E and Your Body

Zinc and it’s Role With Hair Loss

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This 21 page guide walks you through the most important vitamins your body needs. Easy to read and a must have for any home. This book normally sells for .00. 

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The Swine Flu Survival Guide Program has a lot more information for you to avoid getting the Swine Flu  

Swine flu symptoms
The symptoms of swine flu are similar to those reported in common flu. The severity of the symptoms depends on an individual’s resistance levels and on the treatment being provided. Some of the commonly reported symptoms of swine flu include -

    * Fever above 38ºC (100.4ºF)
    * Cough
    * Sore throat
    * Body aches
    * Chills
    * Headache

Symptoms of swine flu develop within 3 to 5 days after the victim is exposed to the virus. The symptoms continue for about 8 days, starting 1 day before the patient gets sick and continues until the patient has recovered. While some patients suffer mildly and recover within a week, in some patients the symptoms of swine flu may worsen, causing pneumonia and other chronic medical conditions. Thousands of people have died because of the aggravation of swine flu symptoms. Contact your doctor immediately if you experience headaches, fever or cold and if you develop symptoms after coming in contact with a person who has been exposed to the swine flu virus.

Swine flu prevention

    * Maintain hygiene
    * Wash your hands frequently using soap or alcohol-based gel
    * Cover you face while sneezing or coughing
    * Stay away from crowds if possible.
    * Stay home if you fall sick to avoid infecting others
    * People who have or are suspected of having swine flu should wear a face mask

Swine flu treatment with Tamiflu
Tamiflu oseltamivir is an oral antiviral drug belonging to the class of medicines called neuraminidase inhibitors. The drug is found to be effective against both Influenza A and Influenza B virus. The US FDA has also approved Tamiflu for the prevention and treatment of the swine flu virus.

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Symptoms and causes of swine flu
Commonly known as swine flu, the H1N1 type A influenza is an infectious human disease that is easily contracted from other people. However, the disease was nicknamed so because the virus that causes it was originally passed on to humans from swine. This virus is a combination of genes from the bird, swine and human flu viruses. In the past, this disease generally affected people who came into direct contact with these animals. But the current outbreak of swine flu is said to be caused by a new breed of the swine flu virus and has been reported even amongst people who haven’t had any kind of contact, direct or indirect, with swine.

Some of the common symptoms of swine flu are similar to those of the regular influenza and include cough, fever, runny nose, sore throat, headache, body ache, fatigue and chills. Many people suffering from swine flu also experience symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea. Everyone who has had flu, experiences at least two of these common symptoms. However, the above mentioned symptoms can also be caused by other conditions. This means that your doctor will be unable to diagnose the disease on the basis of symptoms alone.  Many healthcare professionals offer a quick swine flu test, but a negative result does not necessarily mean that you haven’t got the disease. The accuracy of this test generally depends on the method of sample collection, the quality of the test, as well as the amount of the viral sample being tested.

Tamiflu UK
Tamiflu is a prescription medication and should be taken as per your doctor’s recommendations. Tamiflu UK is available at any pharmacy near you. You can also visit online pharmacies or internet clinics that have a panel of doctors who will issue a Tamiflu prescription based on your symptoms and diagnosis. Buying Tamiflu online in the UK is an easy and convenient way of taking swine flu treatment.

Consisting of the active ingredient oseltamivir phosphate, Tamiflu is a prescription drug used in the treatment of swine flu. Tamiflu targets this deadly virus and prevents it from spreading inside your body. Unlike other influenza drugs that only treat the symptoms, Tamiflu addresses the underlying causes of the disease by attacking the virus that actually causes it. Tamiflu can successfully treat this disease if it is taken as soon as the symptoms appear. It can also lower the risk of infection in people who have been exposed to an infected individual and thereby prevent a swine flu outbreak.

The initial recommended dose is a single 75mg pill twice a day for a period of 5 days. Your doctor will prescribe the appropriate dose on the basis of factors such as your age as well as the other medical conditions you suffer from (if any). If you are taking Tamiflu to prevent rather than treat swine flu, the drug should be taken for at least 10 days. Tamiflu dosage for children will depend on their body weight. Tamiflu is a well tolerated treatment for swine flu as well as for the common flu. However, it cannot be a substitute for vaccination and should not be used as such.