What are flu like symptoms

Flu-like symptoms appear like the flu (see symptoms of flu), which tends to be more severe than the similar cold-like symptoms. Flu-like symptoms may include fever, shivering, chills, malaise, dry cough, loss of appetite, and body aches. A …

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Symptoms include body aches, fever over 100.0 F, sore throat, chills, cough, and possible nausea and vomiting.

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The symptoms of novel H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been i…

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What is a symptom that the swine flu gives you its self besides the normal flu symptoms?

Q: I know the swine flu gives the symptoms of sneezing, coughing and fever that a normal flu gives you. But I want to know what symptoms does the swine flu gives you besides those symptoms. Like a symptom that would let you know you have the swine flu.I’m worried I might have it cause I I’ve had a runny nose and been coughing a lot for about a week. Also I just heard the swine flu came around close to where I live too. 🙁

A: There are no particular symptoms that distinguish swine flu from other types of flu. Symtoms like diarrhea and vomiting are also associated with swine flu. Those symptoms can also be caused by many other conditions, and that means that you and your doctor can’t know, just based on your symptoms.There is a similarity between the swine flu epidemic centered in Mexico City and the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-19. Infants and elderly were spared. It was the young adults with robust immune systems that were the prime victims and the disease took them literally by storm. What happens with young and healthy patients is that their immune systems react so strongly that they can triggers something known as a “cytokine storm”.In response to every infection, the body has a number of ways to fight back against the invading enemy. Cytokines are part of this defense. The name “cytokine storm” basically describes an over-reaction of a healthy immune system that has over-reacted and is damaging the body, causing failure of multiple organ systems. It can be triggered by many things, including viruses, although it’s not common for human influenza A virus strains to cause it. The same thing occurs with new swine flu virus and the body has no defenses built up. When infected the body’s own defensive systems are triggered to a powerful extent and cause havoc to the immune system. It’s something like dropping an H-bomb on a suspected burglar in your back yard. The result is to kill, or needlessly harm, the patientIn children the immune responses are still developing, while the elderly immune function tends to be weaker due to the aging process. Both groups have weak immune system that is why they are vulnerable to complications from the regular flu and tend to get pneumonia and other opportunistic infections after being weakened further by the regular flu. Fortunately, they don’t have systems that react strongly to the flu itself that can generate the cytokine storm. However, the healthy approximately 15 to 60 year old individual the most likely to actually succumb to the swine flu.A cytokine storm can overcome the nervous system and cause breathing and internal organs problems, which is why hospitals put critical flu patients on assisted machines. What really frightens experts in the pandemic field is the fact that most hospitals only have a few of these facilities and they are often in use for surgical or other critical patients. There is simply no way to provide interim support for tens of thousands of pandemic flu victims, even in advanced countries with a strong hospital system. The equipment just doesn’t exist to put them all on breathing machines until their bodies are able to recover naturally.

How long do the cold/flu symptoms last after the initial exposure to herpes?

Q: Does it feel exactly the same as a cold, or is it more like a severe flu? My partner, who may have been exposed to the virus, is exhibiting cold symptoms but no outbreaks or lesions on his penis.

A: For me, it lasted about 5 days, and was more severe like the flu.Basically it is an infection, so you run a high fever, have sore skin, feel shivery and cold/hot and feel weak and off-colour. Obviously, you don’t have the facial/nasal symptoms of flu, or the sore throat. Those symptoms started for me about four days after exposure.To anyone who thinks herpes only produces localised symptoms and you don’t get sick with it:When you first catch herpes your body is fighting a new infection, so it is normal to have symptoms of that infection – such as a fever. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it happens to a high proportion of people catching herpes for the first time. Symptoms are usually described as ‘flu-like’ and can be severe.Colds and herpes: yes, a cold can trigger a herpes outbreak. And recurrent outbreaks, or cold sores, do not usually cause flu-like symptoms or a fever. But recurrent herpes CAN occasionally give you a fever etc. It is an infection, and if your body struggles to fight it you will have a fever. This can happen to people with cold sores or genital herpes. I have had to go to the emergency doctor with a high fever due to a recurrent herpes outbreak in the past. That happened a year after my primary outbreak; these days, herpes doesn’t make me sick any more.The fever isn’t always due to a cold – it can be caused by the herpes virus itself, especially in new infections.

What is the difference between food poisoning symptoms and flu symptoms?

Q: My dad ate taco bell last night @9pm, and started experiencing flu-like symptoms around 9am today. The symptoms were diarrea and vomiting. He started feeling better around 5pm. My mom and him were supposed to fly out to see me and my family today, but canceled their flight because they did not want to come here and get us sick. I am trying to learn about the major differences between the flu and food poisoning. We all know Taco Bell can be kinda sketchy. hehe

A: Stomache flu is caused by a virus, food poisioning is caused by bacteria in food that was not handled or stored properly. Most people confuse the two because the symptoms are very similar; nausea vomiting, diarrhea and stomache pain occur with both. Fever and body aches may occur with the flu.Suspect food poisioning when others also get sick who have eaten the same foods with you. Symptoms may begin as early as 1 hour after eating or as late as 48 hours after eating (depending on the amount of bacteria present in the food). The symptoms of food poisioning may last up to 48 hours, but usually are gone within 12 hours.With one severe type of food poisioning (Botulism) there is also blurred or double vision and difficulty swallowing or breathing. This type is often fatal if not treated with antibiotics.