Protect Yourself, family and community

Protect yourself, family and community by:
- Stay up date information on avian Mexico
- Cover mouth and nose with a tissue badly mistaken coughing and sneezing. Dispose of tissues that have been used and use the new
- Wash hands frequently with soap and water, especially after coughing and sneezing.
Hand-washing soap containing alcohol may be used
- Avoid touching eyes, nose, or mouth. Bacteria will spread through all sections.
- Avoid contact with people who are sick
- If you experience symptoms of a flu-like illness, seven days there lived at home until symptoms disappear
within 24 hours. Fixed to avoid contact with other family members so that the virus does not spread.
- Learn how to cope and care for the sick
- Adhere to the rules given
- If you are still healthy, alert to prepare medicines, adequate food and other supplies.

Emergency Signs

When experiencing these things, immediately consult a doctor, especially for children:
- Difficulty breathing
- The skin becomes bluish
- Vomiting
- Not able to get up
- Be sensitive. In children usually do not want dipeganh body.
- Lack of fluids
- More severe flu-like symptoms, fever, and cough that got worse

In adults, the signs of a complete emergency medical attention include:
- Difficult breathing
- Pain in the chest or abdominal pain
- Feeling of dizziness or a sudden headache
- Confused
- Throw-weight
- Flu-like symptoms to get worse, coughing and fever worsened

Avoid Contact And Maintenance Requirements

When suffering from illness, may last a week or more. You have to stay home and rest and avoid contact with others except when to go to the doctor.
When must to the doctor, use a mask or cover your mouth and nose. Cover nose and mouth when sneezing and coughing.
Recommendation to avoid contact with other people is that the disease is not easily spread. Because you will spread disease a day before having symptoms until seven days after the illness (in children could be at least up to 10 days).

When seriously ill, then a higher risk of complications from the flu this. Immediately contact and consult a doctor. Doctors will soon determine what to do next either type of flu virus check or direct care and treatment.
Please note, if the flu has spread to many people, doctors will not perform tests for flu viruses, but the immediate cure.
Antiviral drugs to be administered in the form of pill, syrup or inhaler. This medicine is given with a doctor's prescription and should not be any use.

Flu Symptoms

New H1N1 virus causing the pain for those infected in countries such as the United States and other countries. The experts said the disease can be deadly if not more dangerous avian flu.
The most common symptoms are usually other fever, headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat, colds, aches, diarrhea and nausea. Usually people who had the flu will experience at least two of all these symptoms.
Mexican flu are very similar to ordinary flu symptoms. High-risk group of people who suffered complications from the flu among they who are aged 65 years or older, children aged 5 years, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes or heart attack, and brands immunosupresif treatment . HIV sufferers, of course including those at high risk as well.

Antiviral Drug Benefit

Care and Healing
Antiviral drugs can make a mild illness and will feel more healthy. It also serves to prevent the occurrence of serious complications.
Antiviral drugs work very well after developing the disease (approximately within two days). However, treatment with antiviral drugs should be performed until 48jam, especially for those who underwent inpatient at the hospital, because a higher risk of influenza-related complications.

Prevention
Influenza antiviral drugs can also be used to prevent influenza munculonya when consumed by those who are not sick. But of course it was given to those who are close to the Mexican people with flu-like health workers.
As a precaution, the drug is effective up to 70% -90%. While giving a maximum determined by the conditions of each individual.

CDC Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for flu treatment or prevention of Mexico, as follows:
- Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) is permitted to treat or prevent consumed virus infection
influenza A and B in people aged 1 year or more
- Zanamivir (Relenza) allowed consumed to treat infections of influenza A and B viruses
for their 7-year-old yangt or more. When used for prevention allowed
consumed by those who are aged five years or more.
Treatment and prevention recommendations, this could be changed in accordance with the development of an existing flu virus.

Four Antiviral Drugs

Antiviral drug is a prescription medicine in the form of pill, syrup or inhaler which its activity against influenza viruses, including influenza A H1N1 virus.
These drugs can be used to treat and prevent infections caused by influenza viruses Mexico. Supervision provided by a doctor or a doctor's prescription and is only useful for influenza virus infection, not to other viral infections.
There are at least four antiviral drugs that circulate in the world that is oseltamivir, zanamivir, amantadine and rimantadine. However, influenza A H1N1 virus was detected in the United States and Mexico were resistant to amantadine and rimantadine. Therefore, both the drug is not effective to overcome the flu Mexico.
However, based on laboratory tests, the flu virus is sensitive to Mexican drug oseltamivir and zanamivir.

When the Child Get Fever And beware Symptoms

- If the child does not require special medical care, keeping children in order to keep the break and maintained at home.
- Give to drink as much as water, juice or pedialyte
- Make your child feel comfortable. Rest is the most important thing for them.
- To overcome a fever, sore throat, or muscle pain, febrifuge performance is using the recommended doctor with age. Do not give aspirin to children and adolescents because it can cause Reye's syndrome endanger the lives of children
- When a sick family member, keep the child from those who are not sick.
- Provide a disposable tissue. Bring on the sick and provide special bins for the tissue-tissue.

Here are aware of the signs in children:
- Fast breathing was rapid or difficult breathing
- Leather-gray or bluish
- Less liquid
- Can not wake up
- Very sensitive to touch her body
- Do not shed tears when crying
- The symptoms disappeared but the fever rises, worsening cough