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It can be similar to how you would breathe with a bad cold. It can be difficult to take a deep breath without coughing, it can produce a loud 'wheezy' breath sound, it can cause shallow and rapid respirations and you may feel short of breath or lightheaded on exertion, or sometimes even short of breath when at rest. You should try to take deep breaths to help clear the lungs. Some over the counter cough medicine that contains guaifenesin will often help clear the secretions so you can take deeper breaths. If it is difficult to breathe, or you feel air hunger, you should contact your physician for advice since the flu can lead to secondary viral or bacterial pneumonia.
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Could your child contract Swine Flu by playing in an indoor playground with an infected child?
yes because anything they touch or breathe on has the swine flu
Why is it bad to breathe through your mouth for too long?
Because there is no hair or mucus (I know it's gross if you imagine it) to block out dirt in the air that we breathe in. Whereas in the nose, there are. And the air we breathe in through the mouth will go down to our throat and cause our throat to be dry and we will develop cough or flu (maybe).
Are the flu and Swine Flu the same?
No, Swine Flu is just one strain of the many flu viruses. Flu is an abbreviation for influenza. So Swine Flu is a type of flu, but all flu is not the swine flu, there are other kinds.
Is stomach flu airborne?
Neither of these viral infections are airborne in the medical sense of that term. However, if you are within 6 feet of someone sneezing with influenza, before the respiratory droplets that are heavier than air fall to the floor or surfaces in the area, you could breathe some of the droplets containing the viruses into your lungs and get the flu. The stomach flu is usually transmitted by direct contact and not from respiratory droplets but that is not impossible, either.
What types of flu create the Swine Flu?
A mixture of the standard Human Flu, Bird Flu and Pig Flu. This creates a new strain of flu called swine flu (Influenza A H1 N1).
Is the Swine Flu the same as the tami flu?
Swine flu is a flu very similar to the regular flu. Tamiflu is a medicine that you take when you have swine flu or other types of influenza.
Which has worst side effects the flu or the flu vaccine?
The flu. One of the side affects of flu can be death.
What is the plural for flu?
flu
How do you spell flu?
That is the correct spelling of "flu" (the flu, viral influenza).
What are the different types of bird flu?
Swine Flu
What is the origin of the name swine lu?
Swine flu was first discovered in people working with pigs. Flu is a disease that is transmitted in various forms among people, pigs, and birds. Sometimes bird flu is transmitted to pigs, and sometime pig flu is transmitted to people. What actually happens is that a pig has pig flu and catches bird flu. A chromosome from the bird flu gets mixed with the pig flu and changes it to a different type of flu. Then a person with human flu catches pig flu. A chromosome with pig and perhaps bird flu mixes with the human flu. The flu is mainly human flu but contains pig and bird flu chromosomes. It got the name swine flu because people working with pigs caught it first. Because it has the pig and bird chromosomes, people with resistance to human flu, have less resistance to swine flu.
If you get a swine flu shot will the swine flu disappear in a week?
The swine flu shot is used to prevent the flu, not to treat the flu if you already have it. To treat the flu, antiviral medications are more likely to be prescribed, such as Tamiflu.
