My cousin has the flu - not H1N1, just classic flu - and she said her fever goes down when she sits up. 
Google is FAILING me here y'all!
Google is FAILING me here y'all!
Any idea why someone's fever would go down when sitting up
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Posts: 69506 (11/21/2009 3:44 PM) Joey Fanatic '06
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Posts: 1869 (11/21/2009 3:47 PM) |
not possible......... maybe she's just going from being under blankets to not having blankets or something but position change has no effect on fever
PS the regular flu hasn't hit the states yet....so if she has the flu, it's h1n1 |
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Posts: 12600 (11/21/2009 3:49 PM) |
So is she checking her temperature when she sits up versus when she is laying down or does it just feel that way?
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Posts: 646 (11/21/2009 3:49 PM) |
Ear infection.
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Posts: 647 (11/21/2009 3:50 PM) |
j2s wrote: I beg to differ. It's been going around the daycare I work at for a couple weeks now. |
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Posts: 69508 (11/21/2009 3:50 PM) Joey Fanatic '06
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I'm guessing it just feels that way. I haven't asked.
Um isn't the regular flu almost always in the States? |
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Posts: 17684 (11/21/2009 3:52 PM) |
j2s wrote:wow. your second statement calls into question the credibility of your first statement. 
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Posts: 1870 (11/21/2009 3:53 PM) |
you can beg to differ all you want.....all cases of flu we are seeing now are h1n1.
from CDC: Over 99% of all subtyped influenza A viruses being reported to CDC were 2009 influenza A (H1N1) viruses. |
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Posts: 1871 (11/21/2009 3:54 PM) |
there is also a "flu like illness" going around that is not actual influenza - that may be what's going around your daycare but if it's
influenza it's h1n1
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Posts: 12601 (11/21/2009 3:55 PM) |
Are they still testing to see the difference between swine and regular? They aren't even testing here anymore because it doesn't matter since the
treatment is the same.
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Posts: 5113 (11/21/2009 3:55 PM) |
Perhaps it's a chest infection, I mean the flu's gone to her chest, when she lies down, it's more difficult for her body to absorb oxygen, raising
her temperature and blood pressure, but when she sits up it may be easier for her to breathe. I'm not saying that's the cause, but it could be.
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Posts: 69510 (11/21/2009 3:56 PM) Joey Fanatic '06
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Isn't there flu A and flu B?
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Posts: 1872 (11/21/2009 3:56 PM) |
bluegrass60062 wrote: what???? the regular seasonal flu has not hit the US yet.....it's a fact. It's still over in europe somewhere. |
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Posts: 1873 (11/21/2009 4:00 PM) |
yes there is an A & B. But only 0.1% (basically none) of the cases so far this year were from Influenza B.
Generally influenza (as well as most illnesses) start in Europe and makes it's way this way. We don't test in the ER. Only patients that are admitted to the hospital with a flu like illness actually get tested. So h1n1 is way more widespread then reported. I'm pretty sure it's the same protocol for most ER's
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Posts: 69511 (11/21/2009 4:03 PM) Joey Fanatic '06
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Well she WAS in Paris in October, so unless that's a slow-acting virus...
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Posts: 1874 (11/21/2009 4:06 PM) |
generally the incubation period is 1-7 days, but most often 1-4 days meaning you'll get sick 1-7 days after being exposed so if she's sick now it most
likely wasn't from her trip
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Posts: 42042 (11/21/2009 4:07 PM) Best Fan Fic Writer '08 |
j2s wrote:And this is why statistics are so easily abused and misinterpreted. People don't take care to check what it is they're actually hearing about. The statistic is not for every case of flu that happens in the US - it's for every case reported to the CDC. That's a very significant difference, since you cannot assume that all cases are being reported to CDC. Of course they're going to get more calls about swine flu than regular flu, doesn't mean regular flu isn't happening. |
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Posts: 1875 (11/21/2009 4:09 PM) |
if she was actually tested for the flu it would have just been a regular (seasonal) flu test. It would have been positive for influenza A. But most likely what
she has is h1n1
h1n1 is a strain of influenza A |
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Posts: 1876 (11/21/2009 4:14 PM) |
OK well I'm not going to argue the h1n1 vs seasonal point
all I can say is that I am an ER nurse and according to the MD's that I work with as well as the info that we get from the CDC the regular seasonal flu is not being seen yet........period |
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Posts: 732 (11/21/2009 4:40 PM) |
How do they test for it? I had a painful up your nose test a week ago at my doctors office and the doctor came back and said it was positive for the flu. He
didn't specify though which one. It didn't occur to me that it was H1N1 because I would have thought with all the OMG around it he would have said
something. I guess it doesn't matter. Tamiflu, cough syrup and a week feeling like hell. Do they have different tests for the different kinds of flu or
is it all the same?
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Posts: 1879 (11/21/2009 4:46 PM) |
yep up the nose is the flu test - I think the doctors office tests just read positive & negative (kinda like a pregnancy test, 2 lines = positive type of
thing)
in the hospital our test tells you influenza A or B, then positive tests are sent to the state to test for subtype (h1n1) - we only do the test on patients sick enough to be admitted to the hospital BUT, if you had a + flu test it's h1n1.......(read above) |
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