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Ledboots said:
That's a little high, I get antsy if a little kid is over 102.5 (armpit reading). Risk of febrile seizure, though I know it's remote. If they look like a limp rag , they get the Tylenol or ibuprofen.
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You could absolutely be right. I more remember calling them, getting the info and then figuring out how to tell the wife not to dispense meds yet. She was a med junkie for short term everything.
 
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You're supposed to stick in their butthole for 5 minutes and then pull it out and read it real quick before it cools down.

Noobs.


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Ya know, the fact that searching "old fashioned medical thermometer" brings up pages of digital shit shows us how far we've fallen.
 
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APRIL said:
How does that happen?! This flu wasn't that big of a deal for us and @fly is probably only 10 years younger.
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It's the body's response, your immune system, how you take care of yourself sick are all factors. This doctor probably ignored his symptoms and popped Tamiflu and ibuprofen, maybe a narcotic for the cough (guessing), unknowingly developed double pneumonia (can happen fast), went to his car for a nap and never made it out.

Some are saying this flu, H3n2, is attacking the heart muscle in some people, but I've just heard this, not read it anywhere.

There is also a thing where people with very good immune systems die suddenly from influenza: the immune system has a kind of storm and goes haywire. Like the 1918 flu was one of those strains. It's scary this year, glad you guys are OK.
 
Ledboots said:
It's the body's response, your immune system, how you take care of yourself sick are all factors. This doctor probably ignored his symptoms and popped Tamiflu and ibuprofen, maybe a narcotic for the cough (guessing), unknowingly developed double pneumonia (can happen fast), went to his car for a nap and never made it out.

Some are saying this flu, H3n2, is attacking the heart muscle in some people, but I've just heard this, not read it anywhere.

There is also a thing where people with very good immune systems die suddenly from influenza: the immune system has a kind of storm and goes haywire. Like the 1918 flu was one of those strains. It's scary this year, glad you guys are OK.
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Wow, that is simply terrifying. Attacking the heart, possibly... not cool, virus dude.

For me, it was a day and a half of uncomfortable body aches and fever. Now I just have an occasional headache and runny nose, almost feel like I can get back to running. We did Tamiflu and IBProfen and drank a ton of fluids, but it was only a smidge worse than a bad cold.
 
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APRIL said:
Wow, that is simply terrifying. Attacking the heart, possibly... not cool, virus dude.

For me, it was a day and a half of uncomfortable body aches and fever. Now I just have an occasional headache and runny nose, almost feel like I can get back to running. We did Tamiflu and IBProfen and drank a ton of fluids, but it was only a smidge worse than a bad cold.
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Yup, it's called a cytokine storm. Some flu viruses cause the body's immune system to attack itself, basically liquifying the lungs. These strains kill young, healthy adults (20-40yrs) because their immune systems are stronger.

It is believed that cytokine storms were responsible for the disproportionate number of healthy young adult deaths during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed 50 to 100 million people.[1] In this case, a healthy immune system may have been a liability rather than an asset. Preliminary research results from Hong Kong also indicated this as the probable reason for many deaths during the SARS epidemic in 2003.[8] Human deaths from the bird flu H5N1 usually involve cytokine storms as well.[9] Cytokine storm has also been implicated in hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.[10]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

These types of strains have very high fatality rates but low transmission rates (something to do with where they originate and the virus not being able to pass from human to human, only from bird/pig to human).
 
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\m/ said:
Short-term, long-term?
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It seems to be a short-term reaction, I've only heard about it this year. So much of the med has been prescribed this year, and fevers make some kids hallucinate, etc make me wonder about the claims. I think at this point the benefits outweigh the risks if the doctor thinks the kid is a candidate for Tamiflu, I'd give it.
 
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Ledboots said:
That's a little high, I get antsy if a little kid is over 102.5 (armpit reading). Risk of febrile seizure, though I know it's remote. If they look like a limp rag , they get the Tylenol or ibuprofen.
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With one kid that has febrile seizures and another on watch (he’s only had one but hasn’t had a fever in almost two years) we medicate all fevers.
 
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Ledboots said:
It's true, there have been reports of bizarre behavior in some kids given tamiflu
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In a general sense their brains swell bigger than their skills thus making them more susceptible to government radio waves, especially around the ears where the Brian matter is more exposed.
 
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