Swine Flu Symptoms and Risk Factors
November 25, 2009
Swine flu is almost same sign as seasonal flu, which induces severe respiratory infections by a wide range of flu viruses. But it is important to understand the basic symptoms of swine flu so that the chronic medical disorder patients can be double alert about the possibility of abuse done by swine flu and take proper preventions against the infection.
As flu symptoms star showing their existence suddenly, swine flu symptoms also follow the conventions of its siblings and usually it starts with a sudden onset of fever, immoderate to severe headache, unconditional fatigue, and body pain. The general alarming symptoms of swine flu are high fever, general weakness, severe muscle pain including eye zones, watery red eyes, moderate to severe headache, loss of appetite, dry cough, sore throat, and running nose.
The typical swine flu symptoms, which are additional problems than common flu are gastrointestinal trouble symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and spell of diarrhea.
Swine flu mostly attacks children and senior persons of above 65 years of age, generally who have low immunity problem or weak immunity power to resist the infection in their bodies.
Apart from this general affinity of swine flu, there are some other people who really are susceptible to this infection; the categories are described here.
Pregnant ladies, children below 2 years of age, asthma patients, patients of COPD or chronic lung problem, people with liver problem, heart problem, people with kidney problem, patients of blood related diseases, patients of neurological disorder, diabetic patients, patients of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and AIDS infected patients are at severe risk if they get infection of swine flu. They should seek earliest medical treatment.
It has been observed in several cases that those people are obese face are quite susceptible to swine flu; although there is no specific reason for this issue but it has been often observed that obese people suffer from respiratory disorders and diabetes. Moreover, these chronic diseases are considered as one of the basic reasons for serious flu complications.
It is not always obvious that if someone has one or more than one symptoms of swine flu, he is infected by swine flu. Proper doctor’s consultation and pathological screening can detect the presence of swine flu virus presence.
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