Rachael Barker
Influenza Unit Project
Part one:
1. Symptoms of the flu can include; a 100 degree fever or higher, cough/ sore throat, runny/stuffy nose, body aches, chills, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, but that is more common in children.
2. The flu shot protects against the “flu”. Gastroenteritis or the “stomach flu” is caused by a variety of viruses. Some can include the rotavirus and norovirus. The main difference is that the flu attacks the respiratory system and the stomach flu attacks your intestines and it can cause flu like symptoms.
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INFLUENZA BOTH GASTROENTERITIS
COUGH FEVER DIARRHEA
CONGESTION VOMITING VOMITING
FEVER CHILLS FEVER
NAUSEA BODY ACHES CHILLS
VOMITING HEADACHE
CHILLS BODYACHES
BODYACHES
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Scientists say that there is NO credible source that proves it can cause autism.
5. A URI or Upper Respiratory Infection is also known as the common cold. There are several types of viruses that can contribute to a URI. When the body notices that there is a foreign virus, it begins to increase the mucus production, swelling in your nose which makes it hard to breathe, sneezing and coughing. The best way to prevent colds is by keeping away from other people that may already be sick, hand hygiene, sanitize your area throughout the day. Treatment for the common cold is simply based on what symptoms you have. Antibiotics cannot cure a cold. There are some medications that can help relieve symptoms but it will not make them go away.
Part Two:
1. No, she won’t be immune because the shots change each year.
2. Anti-genetic drift is a mechanism for different viruses that involve the accrual of mutations within genes that code for antibody bonding sites.
Part three:
1. No, the antibiotics do not cure the flu, the flu is a virus and antibiotics are to kill bacteria.
2 &3. Antibiotics and Vaccines are used to fight germs but have different ways how they work. Vaccines again, are used to prevent the disease and antibiotics are used to treat what has already occurred. Antibiotics do NOT work on the flu or common cold. To compare them, I found a table on Diffen.com that seemed to work well for this answer Antibiotics
In a 1998 study involving children published by the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the intranasal flu vaccine increased antibodies in the bodies of its recipients, and decreased the likelihood of flu. Results showed that the vaccine was more effective than placebo. (1) A 2012 study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases showed that flu vaccines “was associated with a three-quarters reduction in the risk of life-threatening influenza illness in children.” (2)For older adults, however, flu vaccines may have a lower efficacy—but they still prevent 61.2% of flu hospitalizations.
I believe you should get a flu shot because it prevents you from getting the flu most of the time. sometimes you can get the flu from the flu shot if you are sick when u get it.
supporting details: Getting the flu shot stops the what ifs if something were to happen. Even though you can still get the flu after getting a flu shot, it can weaken the strain and has the possibility of saving a life.
To answer my research question I will first review literature on flu vaccines from conventional sources such as the Center for Disease Control and National Institute for Health. I will then review other material available on the Internet written by doctors that do not agree with the conventional
“I believe that they do more harm than good because they contain some toxic ingredients. There are other ways to stop the flu from spreading such as essential oils, washing hands frequently, covering your mouth when you cough and staying at home when you are sick,” Jill McGarvey said.
As painless as the flu may sound it can actually be quite deadly. 55,227 deaths result each year due to the flu. Influenza, otherwise known as the flu, is one of the leading causes for nosocomial diseases contracted in hospital rooms. When being admitted to the hospital with the flu, your body is already below the homeostatic norm and won’t be able to fight off other pathogens that are developed in the hospital sufficiently. The only proper way to shield yourself is to get the influenza vaccine through injection. Influenza is a lot more than perceived and can be more deadly than heard of. Getting a twenty dollar vaccine is significantly healthier and smarter than paying a twenty million dollar bill.
The President said that the shots are ineffective. He never received them and never had the flu. He is not fond of injecting bad things into his body.
Patient J.B. presented the office with chief complaints of coughs and sore throat that lasted about seven days. These symptoms are typically seen in respiratory tract infection or inflammation that is caused by viruses or bacteria. The initial differential diagnoses included Influenza, cough, common cold, community-acquired pneumonia, acute bronchitis, acute pharyngitis, and postnasal drip syndrome based on the chief complaints. The reason that why these differential diagnoses were considered is because they all have coughs as the symptom. Some of these differential diagnoses have both coughs and sore throat. JD, et al. (2017) states that Influenza A or B viruses can cause a dry cough and sore throat. Troullos,
The flu is a common viral infection that continues to threaten many people throughout the United States. Everyone should get vaccinated against the viral infection as early as possible to increase their chances of overcoming the infection.
Although Type A viruses undergo both types of changes, Type B only go through the more gradual Type B.
The flu is treated primarily with rest and fluid to let the body fight the infection on its own. Over-the-counter anti-inflammatory
People who contract flu run the risks of developing ear infections, sinusitis, pneumonia and bronchitis – these complications may result in hospitalization and in rare cases death. The flu vaccine protects against these complications in most people. Approximately 200,000 people who contract the flu experience complications severe enough to require hospitalization.
This misconception comes from the fact that the virus is actually injected into your bloodstream. Mayo Clinic--a highly regarded team of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals--studied the process by which flu vaccines are created: year round, viruses--new and old-- are under surveillance. The data collected from the surveillance is used by the World Health Organization to predict which virus strains will be the most prominent this coming flu season. Once these chosen strains have been collected in samples, the virus is multiplied in controlled environments. This virus does go into the vaccination, but the virus is either killed, meaning it won’t replicate at all, or muted, meaning it’s not strong enough to replicate enough to harm a human body (Tosh). So, when people say vaccinations actually inject the virus into a body, those people are not wrong; the virus is inside your body, but is used as a model for antibodies to be made. While some people may develop flu-like symptoms soon after their vaccination has been distributed, it is because their body has not created enough antibodies to ward off the actual virus in the environment. All of this evidence shows very clearly that vaccinations do not cause the flu, and are therefore safe and okay to
The disease spreads when infected persons sneeze, cough or talk. A person can also get the flu by touching a surface or object that has the flu virus then touching their own mouth or nose (CDC, 2015). It is estimated that the annual flu virus infects between 10 to 20 percent of the population. (Toronto Influenza Update, 2014). Person’s sick from the flu can have symptoms such as; a high fever (38 C (100.4 F), dry cough, and aching body, feeling very weak and tired. Some people may also experience; chills; loss of appetite; sore throat; runny or stuffy nose; some people may have nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. (CDC, 2015). The virus lowers the body ability to fight other infection. This can lead to bacterial infections such as pneumonia and even death in the elderly, children (6-59 months) and pregnant women. (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2013). In Canada, an average of 12,200 hospitalization and 3,500 deaths due to influenza occur annually (Toronto Influenza Update,
Antibiotics - effective against bacterial infections, only; overuse of antibiotics is responsible for the emergence of a super strain of bacteria, can cause resistance to all antibiotics