Big Challenges in Swine Flu Treatment

The swine flu symptoms get confounded with regular flu symptoms. One would suffer from running nose, fever with chills, sore throat, headache, body ache if infected with the virus.

Stay at home and take rest if you are infected. Take antiviral drugs, namely Tamiflu (oseltamivir) if you are diagnosed with the symptoms. It will prevent virus attack in full swing. Age is a major factor in the spread and severity of attack of the virus. Aged people are more prone to the virus attack. People with respiratory illness fall prey very easily.

It has been well recognized that Tamiflu is the best remedy available as of now to treat infected people. But unlimited use of this medicine may result in the virus developing resistance. So, the medicine may be rendered ineffective in future for treatment. It is evident that patients administered with Tamiflu recover 1.5 times faster than patients who were not given it.

But of late vaccines have been developed to prevent the infection of the virus. Get to know from your physician about it.

The disease spreads rapidly by physical contact and proximity to the infected person. So it is a big challenge to prevent transmission. It mostly spreads through cough and sneezing. Sanitation is very important in controlling the spread of the disease. Wash your hands with alcoholic sanitizers. In public places, wear a mask. These are some of the measures to control the spread and contain the disease.