Thursday, June 25, 2009
AHH!!! The H1N1 has now reached 220!!! and, the symptoms to detecting it are vry hard... as 1 outta 5 patients will not be detected as th symptoms are vry mild and is easily mistaken for seasonal flu!
The CDC team had found out tt oni half the patients had high fever: 37.8+ and the rest may be mild or NO fever. Cough was also the most common case affecting four in five patients but only half had sorethroats... These are such general symptoms tt it would be a challenge to general practitioners(GPs) to identify ppl as H1N1 patients.
Unlike the USA, whr many had diarrhoea, oni 1 of the first 50 patients had suffered from it in singapore. For most of the patients still warded at CDC, abt 70 are doing well and most are no longer sick. But for most, the fever wld have receded a day aft taking the TamiFlu but they are still in hospital as their nose and throat swabs say tt they still have the H1N1 virus in them.
The problem is tt doctors do not know whether the virus is live or dead so they are uncertain if the person is still infectious. Most patients are discharged aft 5 days but a handful may need to be warded for almost 2 weeks. When community spread comes, those patients who are H1N1 positive will be treated as outpatients.
Their main focus is on ppl in the high-risk group such as ppl with kidney failure and cancer and suffering from H1N1. So far, the illness appears fairly mild in most patients, who are generally young and healthy ppl. Singapore only has 3 patients with medical problems-2 with asthma and one with Hodgskins lymphoma. All are fine.
The Dr also warned tt those with
WEAKENED systems could develop a bacterial infection of the lungs or even blood poisoning. They will need specialist hospital care. And her advice to ppl is to wear a mask when u're in crowded places- It is not a shameful thing.
UPDATES!!!!!! From Monday, schls will:• Check temp twice a day.
• Suspend assemblies, stagger recess times and scale down CCAs.
• Hold classes on hygiene and H1N1.
• Screen visitors for fever.
• Alert parents to take home students who have fever but not been to affected areas.
• Send students who have fever and have been to affected areas to hospital.
THOSE WITH HIGH RISK:• Diabetics• Obese• Elderly• Pregnant Women• Asthmatics• Ppl with chronic lung, heart, liver or renal diseases• Ppl undergoing radio- or chemo-therapy• Ppl taking steroids-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------So you guys better be careful. All the updates here... lol... and esp those suffering from any of those diseases thr. under the high risk. So tts it... Bye! ^^
♥ posted on 2:12 PM
