H1N1 Cases

I was pointing out that your "hasn't happened yet" philosophy was not logical.

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They are not really saying how many people have h1n1, in the Niagara Region. The only thing I seen was as of Friday, 17 people were admitted to the NHS with h1n1. They say a number of people with flu like symptoms, but not everyone will be tested for h1n1. I'm on the fence about the vaccine. I have to wait a month for my youngest, and we all have a cold here.

What I said has nothing to do with my philosophy, and I could care less if it's logical to you or not. What I was talking about was almost 56 years of real life experience, I'm not going to worry about your "hasn't happened yet" philosophy, I refuse to live my life in fear of what might happen. Dude take as many vaccines as you want, that's your choice. If you haven't noticed I don't agree with you, so get a clue and just agree to disagree; because I'm pretty sure your not really concerned for my health or if I get the flu. IMO your argument is more about I'm right and your wrong.

I didn't get my children vaccinated out of fear, but after research, felt it was the right thing to do. I actually feel pretty lucky that we were able to get the vaccine for our kids. I haven't got the vaccine and likely will not, as I generally don't get the seasonal flu vaccine either - I have a pretty strong immune system. But for my children, I think its just prudent to be cautiously aware and get the vaccine just to have a better level of safety.

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My mom gets a flu shot every year and will probably get the H1N1 as well. She has asthma and when she had the flu in the late 60's she almost died.

But like with just about everything else - each person has to make their own decision about it.

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I'm just getting over H1N1 at the moment. I came down with it last Sunday and was very sick for three days. As sick as I've been since I was a kid. So sick I could hardly stand up.

I'm relatively young and have no health problems, so I don't imagine that I was ever in any real danger, and I never felt like I was. But I can certainly see how an older person, or someone with breathing problems, could get in a pretty serious situation with such a strong respiratory infection.

My dad is back up and around. A health male in his late 40's was spent close to a week and a half in the hospital, the majority of it on oxygen. The day he got home he actually broke a rib just from all the coughing (2nd time he has done this in his life). The doctors tell us that this was most likely cause by either H1N1 or seasonal flu and a few times his o2 saturation got so low he almost went on a ventilator (which as predicted, are in very short supply).

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-JFK

War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
-Unknown

My youngest son just got over a high fever of 102 degrees that lasted about 2 days but hasn't developed any other symptoms yet. But now I'm sick. I seem to have a mild form of most of the symptoms of H1N1. I have a dry cough, sore chest, headache, body aches, dizziness and weakness but I don't have a fever and none of these symptoms are that bad. I joked with my husband that it seems like my son and I split the symptoms of the same flu and like any good mother, I took the worst of it LOL. Anyway, the hospitals here aren't testing for it anymore so I guess I'll never know for sure if what we have is H1N1 but my oldest son and my husband have been able to dodge it so far. I just hope it stays that way.

I heard on the news that it's not H1N1 itself that kills. It's actually a secondary bacterial pnemonia that some people are getting along with it because of weakened immune systems. I don't know for sure if this is true or not, but that's what is being reported now.

I think the most important thing we can do now whether or not we get the vaccine (because it takes about ten days for the vaccine to work) is to eat healthy and excercise. There are lots of sites online that list foods that boost immunity. I think that's why my family isn't as sick as we could have gotten regardless of which flu we have or had. Every morning we start the day with a pro biotic drink and a tall glass of V8 fusion juice (it has 2 servings of fruit and vegetables but you can hardly taste the vegetables) along with our vitamines and we each make sure to have one more glass of juice and a tall glass of milk everyday. I have noticed a big difference in my family's health with just this simple change in our diets. I highly recommend it. I've also heard from more than one source that nothing prevents and fights the flu better than vitamin D, yet most people aren't getting enough of it.

I hope you feel better soon, norswede. Here, there was a report on the news by a doctor about gargling several times a day with warm salt water, and also irrigating the sinus passages with the same early on when one is first exposed to the virus. He said studies indicate this can be as powerful, if not more than Tamiflu in minimizing the flu's effect because it kills off the bacteria that initially grows in the nose and throat. He said the amount of bacteria that grows dictates how ill we become from the flu as it proceeds on throughout the body.

Just in case this is helpful to anyone here, I thought I'd pass it along. Again, like the Tamiflu, doing this early on makes the biggest difference.

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