Winter you how to prevent flu

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        In recent days, a lot of places large snowfalls, the temperature drops obviously, and good hair at winter flu (influenza) also will come. Year flu period in general around the Spring Festival, is now at flu vaccination stage, the public can prevent vaccination. In fact the flu is not terrible, it can prevent remedy, and prevention is always better than treatment is more important.

        What is the influenza

        The flu is caused by a virus an acute respiratory infectious diseases, infectious strong, the incidence of a disease is high, easy to cause outbreak or pandemic. The typical clinical features are urgent up high fever, significant fatigue, muscles ache, and congestion, runny nose and sneezing and upper respiratory tract card he symptoms is relatively light. Influenza is the most remarkable characteristic is: sudden outbreak, rapid spread, has wide, has certain seasonal.

        Flu incubation period is generally 1 ~ 3 days. Happened after flu symptoms include high fever, headache, muscle pain, fatigue, runny nose, cough and sore throat, etc., children still can be represented as a nausea vomiting and diarrhea symptoms of digestive tract. Young children and seniors and chronic diseases (such as lung disease, diabetes, cancer, kidney disease or heart disease) patients prone to complications such as pneumonia to illness, and even cause death.

        Influenza and the common cold have distinction

        One is the two kind of disease of different pathogens. Influenza caused by a virus, the influenza virus including a, b and c three; The common cold can be made of a variety of pathogens causes, such as nasal virus, adenovirus, bacteria and mycoplasma, etc., the average person in the catch cold catch cold, rain, excessive fatigue, because resistance decline easily when disease.

        The second is two kinds of the clinical manifestations of diseases is different. Compared with the flu and the common cold mainly for sneezing, runny nose upper respiratory tract symptoms, systemic symptom is lighter, no fever or only low head, general 3 ~ 5 days recovery. The performance of the flu is systemic symptom is heavier, sudden chills, fever, have a headache, systemic ache, stuffy nose, runny nose, cough, chest pain, nausea, loss of appetite, infants and young children or the elderly can be complicated by pneumonia or heart failure. Poisoning flu patients, for the performance of the high fever, said nonsense, coma, convulsions, sometimes can lead to death.

        Special groups have shown mixed flu

        Children's flu: in influenza season, more than 40% of preschool children and 30% of the school-age children suffering from the flu. General health children infected with the influenza irus may manifest itself as a light flu, is characterized by fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat and a stuffy nose, headache, muscle pain, appear a few vomiting and diarrhea. Baby influenza clinical symptoms are often not typical, can appear febrile convulsion. Neonatal flu rare, but easy to merge pneumonia, often sepsis performance, such as sleepiness, refused to milk, apnea, etc. In the pediatric, caused by influenza viruses of laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, capillary bronchitis, pneumonia and gastrointestinal symptoms than adult common.

        Old people flu: 65 years old patients with flu for elderly flu. For old people often have respiratory system, cardiovascular system, and so on the primary disease, so old people infected with the influenza irus condition after much heavier, progress fast, occurred pneumonia rate is higher than young people, other system damage including flu viral myocarditis in electrocardiogram abnormalities, heart, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and can also be concurrent encephalitis and poor blood glucose control, etc.

        Pregnant women flu: middle-late pregnant women infected with the influenza irus except such as fever, cough after the performance, easy happening pneumonia, rapid emergence of dyspnea, hypoxemia even acute respiratory distress syndrome, can lead to premature birth, abortion, fetal distress, and intrauterine fetal death. Can cause the original foundation disease aggravated, serious illness can cause death. The 2 days not the antiviral treatment significantly increased mortality.

        Immunodeficiency crowd flu: immune deficiency people such as organ transplant crowd, AIDS patients, the long-term use of immunosuppressant person, infected with the influenza irus occurred after the risk of severe flu increased significantly, because of easy appear flu viral pneumonia, after the rapid emergence of fever, cough, dyspnea and cyanosis, the fatality rate was high.

        Prevent flu more measures

        Because of the flu is viral diseases, no special treatment means, therefore prevention measures is very important. The main prevention measures include:

        One is to maintain good personal and environmental hygiene. The second is to wash their hands often with soap or liquid soap to wash your hands with flowing water, need not dirty hand towel. Both hands touch after respiratory secretions (such as sneezing) should wash their hands immediately. The third is sneezing or coughing application handkerchief or paper towel cover mouth and nose, avoid droplet infection others. Flu patients at home or go out wearing masks, so as not to infect others. Four is a balanced diet, exercise, adequate rest, avoid excessive fatigue. Five is a window ventilated several times every day (winter to avoid blow to cross ventilation), maintain indoor air fresh. The sixth is in the period of the flu, not as far as possible more crowded, air dirty place; Forced must go to, it is better to wear a face mask. Seven is in the influenza season before inoculation influenza vaccine can also reduce the chance of infection or reduce flu symptoms.

        Who should be vaccinated influenza vaccine

        Influenza vaccine by citizens at one's own expense and voluntary inoculation. Generally speaking, at the age of 6 months above, no vaccination contraindication are voluntary at one's own expense immunization influenza vaccine. The Chinese CDC recommend influenza vaccine priority vaccinated crowd:

        One is to have the flu complications after higher risk crowd. Including 1.5 years old and younger children; 60 years old and above the old; Cardiovascular disease (except hypertension), chronic shout system disease, kidney and liver insufficiency, hematonosis, nervous system disease, neuromuscular dysfunction, metabolic disease in patients with chronic diseases; With immunosuppressive diseases of adults and children (including drugs or HIV infections immune suppression); Less than 18 teenagers accept long-term aspirin healers, Long-term living in nursing homes and other chronic disease rehabilitation agency personnel; Prepare flu season in pregnant women.

        The second is a great chance to influenza virus to high-risk groups of people, including nursing homes and other chronic disease rehabilitation institution work personnel and medical personnel, etc.

        At the same time prevent flu vaccination pneumonia vaccine

        The harm of flu patients is not only to bring pain and life threats, more lies in its trigger a variety of secondary disease, often becomes the physique weak patient's serial killer. Secondary pneumococcal disease in the previous flu pandemics, cause death of patients is one of the biggest reasons for the.

        The high risk population in flu high-risk season should be vaccinated before influenza vaccines and pneumococcus vaccine, effectively reduce the risks. Due to the high incidence of pneumonia secondary age generally in 5 years old or less children and 50 years old crowd, because this proposal within five years old children and elderly people over the age of 65 pneumonia vaccine inoculation. Suffering from respiratory system disease, cardiovascular disease or diabetes patients with chronic disease, once suffering from the flu are more likely to infect pneumonia and cause serious complications, will greatly increase the hospitalization rate and mortality.

        So in flu high-risk season ago, this part of the high-risk groups to cause pay special attention to, and early immune prevention, the international recognized is the best way pneumonia vaccine inoculation. Pneumonia vaccine inoculation, effective protection ratio can reach more than 85%, duration time for 5 years. The best inoculation time is in before winter comes, the general effective antibodies produce to after 15 days. Influenza and pneumococcus vaccine inoculation two together to high-risk groups have very good defensive role, WHO in our country of epidemiological investigation showed that the pneumococcus popular main eight serum type, and the 8 kinds of serum type are included in the 23 price pneumococcus vaccine, so 5 years old children and adults can choose. And children under the age of five, should choose 7 valence pneumonia vaccine. (LvBin)