Complications after swine flu

As you know, any flu represents a danger with its complications. The strain of the H1N1 virus is no exception. But unlike those types of diseases that are better studied, it has a harder effect on the body. Accordingly, complications after swine flu are more complex, more severe and the consequences can be too serious. Fortunately, you can avoid such trouble.

What complications can be after swine flu and how to recognize them?

To date, the strain of the H1N1 flu virus is considered one of the most dangerous. It inflicts more damage on the human body than the so-called traditional disease. Due to the fact that people are too susceptible to the virus, the ailment spreads very quickly, and leads to the declaration of an epidemic.

Swine flu sweats heavily. And if you do not pay attention in time to the fact that the disease has passed into a more neglected form, even a lethal outcome is possible. Given that the disease develops quickly enough, you can face complications on the third or fourth day of malaise. Therefore, at the first symptoms of the disease, experts recommend referring to professional help.

One of the most dangerous complications that swine flu can give is pneumonia. It can be primary or secondary. Manifestations of the primary are discernible after a couple of days after the onset of the disease. The main symptoms include:

• dyspnea (breathing is increased several times);
• very strong dry cough (sometimes a small amount of clear sputum is expectorated);
• acrocyanosis or cyanosis of the nasolabial area.

When listening to the lungs, distinctly different wet rales. Thus, during the procedure of tapping the lungs, the percussion sound is dulled.

The task is not simple - how to cure the complication of swine flu - secondary pneumonia. This disease develops against the background of joining the main virus of bacteria. Symptoms of it appear later - about a week after the onset of the flu.

Recognize the secondary pneumonia can be on these grounds:

• cough becomes more severe;
• pus appears from the lungs;
• On the x-ray , foci of inflammation are visible;
• the temperature rises sharply.

Usually secondary pneumonia begins after a slight calm. The patient feels some relief, the symptoms of the ailment gradually recede, but later return and become even more pronounced.

There are other possible complications of swine flu. Among them:

• myositis;
• inflammation of the membrane, the surrounding heart (pericarditis);
• myocarditis ;
• hemorrhagic symptom;
• heart attack;
• sinusitis;
• ear infections;
• otitis;
• asthma;
• congestive heart failure;
• diabetes.

Fortunately, they are rare.

How to cure complications of swine flu or avoid them?

Treatment is always selected individually. The choice of therapy affects the general health of the patient, the form of the flu, the neglect of the disease, the physiological characteristics of the body.

Often relevant is symptomatic treatment, suggesting antipyretic, antitussive, vasoconstrictive and antihistamines. Antibiotics are prescribed exclusively for bacterial complications of pork influenza. In all other cases, strong medicines will simply be powerless.

And to struggle with complications it was not necessary, it is enough to adhere to advice or councils of doctors:

1. Observe the bed rest.
2. Drink a lot.
3. Take immunomodulators and preparations containing vitamin C.
4. Healthy food.
5. Regularly ventilate the room in which you are and maintain the necessary level of humidity in it.