If it is oink oink flu and you are on tamiflu he wont be allowed in school will he?

Hope everyone is feeling better soon

sob sob sob sob I am waiting for a district nurse to bring an anti viral for ds1, ds2 and me for piggy oink oink flu

please don't feel guilty - these things happen. So easy to get caught out by the sun, even when everything isnt going pete tong!

How is ds now? Better i hope.

he is much better today, still coughing like a trooper but refuses to stay home from school tomorrow as he and 14 other pupils are off to hampton court for the next 2 days and he is to be interviewed by bbc (i think it bbc)

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Don't worry, my godchildren have had swine flu and are back to their jolly selves already. It was temperature and tiredness mainly, no worse than anything my 2 have had.

Oh poor you. My DS3 seemed to have all the swine flu symptoms yesterday. Couldn't get through to NHS direct for love nor money. He was so poorly, wouldn't eat or drink, very high temp, sleeping etc. Rang out of hours GP who said to go to clinic - even with flu sypmtoms as aparently thats what everyone else there will have!

Anyways, he has a chest infection and has really perked up after a few doses of antbiotics.

Please don't feel guilty, we've all thought our DCs were playing on it.

Hope he picks up soon.

ladyevenstar and misssunny, really sorry to hear that your children are unwell, but thought I would reassure you about swine flu

At the moment swine flu seems to be no nastier than seasonal flu. all the initial panic happened becuase H1N1 (the swine flu strain) is a new strain for humans and nobody is really sure how we would react to it. Because it was new, the government had to take it as seriously as if this could be 1918 spanish flu all over again, and it is looking like swine flu will be no more life endangering than chicken pox.

When the news broke in March there were about 18 confirmd swine flu deaths in Mexico city, which has a population of 20 million. All 4 deaths in the UK have been people with underlying health conditions, who would have been vulnerable complications from seasonable flu. If your dc is not a candidate for flu jabs on the nhs every year, if they do get swine flu they should be just fine.

You are doing all the right things to take care of them it is worth contacting NHS direct if you are worried - if it is suspected swine flu they will be able to give you all the details, and probably tamiflu.

Hope they feel better today here is more info about swine flu - it's a bit more cautious than I am being here, but bear in mind that the nhs can't say everything is fine on an internet help page, just in case it isn't for the few people who are unlucky.

good luck!

miss, they are the symptons of swine flu..ds1 just got up he is burning n cold iyswim?