Nov
11
How Do You Know If You Have Swine Flu Instead Of A Normal Flu/common Cold?
ByI’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?
6 Comments
November 11th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Only a doctor can tell you yes it’s true, but i still wouldn’t bother going, chances are you have a normal flu, the swine flu is no worse than a common cold, I know some one who go swine flu I myself don’t have it, he didn’t go to the hospital or anything and is fine. If you go to the doctor, you’ll get the vaccination which will cost a ton and won’t do anything as later in the future there will be a stronger flu virus and you’ll have to do it all over again. Don’t get the vaccination, let your body heal it on it’s own, it can and will do it.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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 a*sume, 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.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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.
November 11th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
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.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Swine flu has vomiting and diarrhea
November 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
it would seem like you don’t it takes us all so differently