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| How to prepare the porcine flu |
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| The advance of this illness does essentially that the persons know how to avoid to be contagious with the virus H1N1. |
For the time being, what is known is that the virus of the porcine flu one can penetrate from person person. The first time that one listened to the vine H1N1 was in September, 1988, when a woman 32-year-old healthy age pregnant woman was hospitalized by pneumonia and died 8 days later infected with the virus of the porcine influenza H1N1.
Four days, before falling ill, the patient had visited a pigs exhibition in a fair of the county where an illness was registering pseudogripal generalized between the pigs.
In pursuit studies, 76 % of the exhibitors of pigs to which tests were realized presented antibodies that verified infection for influenza porcine, although in this group serious illnesses were not detected. Additional studies indicated that from one to three employees of the personnel of medical attention who had had contact with the patient presented illness pseudogripal light and antibodies against the infection of the porcine influenza.
From this date up to the sprout of Mexico, which has propagated to several countries, the contagion dynamics seems to have changed. This because the viruses of porcine flu do not usually infect the human beings. Occasional cases have registered, commonly between the people who has direct contact with infected pigs, like farms workpeople. “We have seen influenza porcine in human beings in the last years, and in most cases, it has been for direct contact with pigs. This seems to be different”, said the doctor Arnold Monto, expert in flu of the University of Michigan.
For the same, increases in importance the knowledge how to prepare the contagion.
How to avoid it
These are the recommendations that the authorities delivered in case of a case had registered in the place where you live:
To stay removed from the persons who have respiratory infection.
To greet neither of kiss nor of hand.
Not to share food, glasses or silverware.
To ventilate and to allow the entry of the sun in the house, the offices and in all the closed places.
To keep clean the covering of kitchen and bath, handles and rails, as well as toys, phones or objects of common use.
To avoid sudden changes of temperature.
To eat fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins A and C (carrot, papaya, guava, orange, tangerine, lime, lemon and pineapple).
To wash his/her/its hands often with water and soap.
To avoid exhibition to environmental pollutants.
Not to smoke in closed places not close to children, elders or patients.
The mouth be covered when it coughs or sneezes with a disposable handkerchief. After used, dump the handkerchief to the garbage immediately.
Wash his/her/its hands with water and soap whenever I sneezed, the cleaners as also they serve the alcohol gel for this intention.
Avoid to take the hands to the face to scratch the eyes, the nose or the mouth, since this way it is the form easiest to acquire the virus.
It is recommended as well as it supports the good physical state.
To sleep well.
To control the stress.
To take enough liquid and to eat recovered.
What medicines to take?
There are four different medicines approved in the United States to treat the flu, but the new virus has showed resistance to the most ancient two. The CDC recommends the use of Tamiflu and Relenza.
Is it contagious for eating pig?
No. The viruses of the porcine influenza are not transmitted by the food. You cannot contract influenza porcine for eating pork or his derivative products that have been manipulated and cooked in a suitable way.
| H1N1 is the type of virus of the influenza that provokes the porcine flu or of the pig |
| What is the porcine influenza? |
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| The porcine influenza (also called porcine flu or swine flu in English). |
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Washington Hispanic
The porcine influenza (also called porcine flu or swine flu in English) is a respiratory illness in pigs caused by the viruses of the influenza type A.
The sprouts of infections of porcine influenza happen often in the pigs.
In general, the persons are not contagious of influenza porcine, but they can happen, and in effect infections have happened in the human beings in the past.
Mostly, the cases of porcine influenza in human beings happen in persons who are in nearby contact with pigs, but it is possible that the viruses of the porcine influenza propagate also from person person, as it is what has happened in Mexico and other places of the balloon, including Spain and the United States.
Until now, the Centers for the Control and Prevention of Illnesses (CDC for his acronym in English) has pointed out that the type of virus found in Mexico (H1N1) is highly contagious, hence the tall number of persons that have picked up the virus in this country and how it has scattered to other places of the planet.
Excellent other about this influenza vine is that it attacks young and healthy persons. In other cases, it is seen that the virus of the flu fond of infantes or major adults, taking advantage of slightly developed or weak immune systems. In this case, nevertheless, the virus H1N1 makes young and healthy persons ill.
All these peculiarities have lit the alarms of the authorities of health on a global scale. Nevertheless, the happened with the avian flu, in which laertó for months of a possible mutation of the virus H5N1 that could infect human beings, it did that the involved organizations accumulated million dose of the medicine Tamiflu, manufactured by Laboratory Roche. This drug has proved to be effective so much in the treatment of the avian flu like the porcine one, and the Department of Health of the United States can move million dose to the areas affected in a little time.
For this reason, the authorities although they call the population to find out, also send a calmness message to the population.
Anyway, the impact of a pandemic caused by such viruses is difficult to predict, since it depends on the agudez of the virus, of the existence or not of immunity in the persons, of the protection crossed by antibodies acquired across the infection with virus of seasonal influenza and of proper factors of the bearer.
For all these reasons, we dedicate this SaludGuía edition to everything what he must know about the flu of the pig.
| In many cases, the porcine flu is evident like any other flu, but his declaration can become quickly sharp |
| Very much eye with the symptoms |
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Washington Hispanic
The symptoms of the porcine flu are the same that those of the common flu, fever, cough, fatigue, lacking in appetite.
Some persons with influenza porcine have brought also nasal secretions, sore throat, morning sickness, vomiting and diarrhea.
It is important that the persons know that the persons infected by the virus of the porcine influenza are potentially contagious while they show symptoms and possibly up to seven days after the same appear.
The children, especially the smallest, can be more contagious during longer periods.
If you present symptoms similar to the influenza that include fever, pains in the body, nasal secretions, sore throat, morning sickness, vomiting or diarrhea, he can contact his provider of medical attention.
His personnel of medical care will determine if it is necessary to do to him tests of detection of the influenza or to give him treatment.
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If it is sick, must be able only at home and avoid the contact with other persons as much as it is possible to avoid to infect to others.
If it falls ill and presents some of the following signs of warning, look for medical attention immediately.
In the children:
Rapid respiration or make difficult to breathe.
Bluish color in the skin.
I consume little of liquids.
He neither gets up nor interacts with other persons.
Extreme irritability that does that the child is so annoying that he does not want that they load it.
Symptoms similar to those of the influenza that are improved but that reappear with fever and more serious cough.
Fever with eruption.
In the adults:
Make difficult to breathe or absence of breath.
Pain or pressure in the breast or abdomen.
Sudden sickness.
Confusion.
Strong or persistent vomiting.
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| Has It Taken Precautions to Prepare the Porcine Flu? |
For Maria Gómez
THE PRESIDENT OF MARY'S CENTER
The sprout of porcine flu or flu of the pig about which one has speaking for a few days is already not an alone matter of Mexico, country where initially the first cases appeared. In Europe there is information of a few sprouts and in Canada and the United States keep on increasing the numbers of persons infected with the virus.
That's why, let's not entrust nor let's be careless. The students of a school of New York who were in Mexico for Spring Break and who seemingly were who brought the sprout to this country, are a few hours ahead of us, that is to say, it surrounds enough how not to think that the virus can spread to this area.
So to take precautions! The President Obama started already on having declared health state of emergency at national level and experts of the World Organization of the Health have been meeting to look at the risks and to determine the measurements to take.
We for our part the best thing that we can do is to continue the recommendations that happen in these cases and with that we are already giving a very important step to prevent from propagating this sprout and from turning into a more serious problem.
Are the above mentioned recommendations quite basic and simple and of course you will have listened to them repeatedly in the mass media but it is taking really these precautions?
An exercise as basic as to wash his/her/its hands that it is the first thing and more important that is recommended in these cases, it can become crucial at the time of avoiding this mentioned porcine flu which name happens because it comes straight from the pigs. Wash his/her/its hands all the times be able. In one day we touch hundreds of things that have spent for foreign and unknown hands that we do not know what they bring with it, so the discipline does not remain of several times throw water and soap to our hands a day, especially when we are going to consume food.
The liquid soap that does not need water for juagarse – here they call it 'sanitazer' is also very good if we do not have access to water.
It is important to have special precautions with persons who have traveled recently to Mexico, California or Texas that is where the sprout comes, that is to say, to prevent the nearby contact to prepare the virus from transmitting him in case they have it.
If you are presenting flu symptoms, consult his doctor since often they can make a mistake with the symptoms of a normal flu. These symptoms are a fever, cough, pain of the body, headache, shakes and weariness. Some of them also present diarrhea and vomiting.
If it is coughing or sneezing with major regularity that of custom, insure of wrapping up the nose and the mouth not to spread the virus, be that the fuere.
The persons infected with this virus can infect others inclusive from the day previous to which the symptoms appear before him, that is to say, when he does not know yet that it has the virus and has not taken the necessary measures, up to one week after it has presented the symptoms. Also it is necessary to bear in mind that the vaccine against the influenza that we put ourselves many in last autumn, does not protect against this virus.
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