How do you know if you have Swine flu instead of a normal flu/common cold?
I'm coughing a lot lately, have a really warm forehead because of a big headache and I sneeze sometimes. I got the sickness from my sisters. How do I know if I have just a common cold instead of swine flu? I know they're symtoms are closely the same but what's different about them so I know if I have a normal cold instead of swine flu?
Posted by Fred
it would seem like you don't it takes us all so differently
Posted by Tom
The difference is in the genetic makeup of the bacteria. You will treat it the same either way, anyway, but the only way to know the difference is if a doctor runs a culture test.
Posted by The REAL Steel Deal!!!
http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/qa.htm
There are different strains of flu, including different strains of swine flu. This particular swine flu is different because it has so little genetic relationship with the flus we have experienced in recent decades. Our immune systems have never been exposed to it or anything similar, so we lack resistance to it. Also, it is readily contagious from human to human (like most of the flus we suffer from). And it strikes those with the most robust health the hardest. It kills people in their prime instead of killing the weak.
The reason it kills the strong, I assume, is that it produces an excessive immune reaction, and people die from the immune reaction rather than from the virus itself. This is what happened in 1918, but that was an avian flu.
Posted by Phattyml123
Swine flu has vomiting and diarrhea
Posted by Hey Jude
You would have to go to the dr to find out, my sister just thought she a bad cold and went to dr and found out that she had the swine flu. Nothing to play around with so better go see doc right away.
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