my daughter has swine flu

[alisha29]

has had a positive result for swine flu but they said they wont be treating her or her other siblings. what are peoples thoughts??

I thought they are confirming it on the phone though.

Sorry, my last post was a bit of a contradiction but you know what I mean!

the doctor said its fine for her to go back without treatment im not thinking it they have said it, sorry this must be a confusing post i didnt get results from hospital like told someone phoned me up from advice centre and was talking about swine flu i said i didnt even now if dh has it as havent got results back from the doctor at the hospital she went off checked on her computer and said yes your daughter is positive

my dh got swabed last weekend

yeah but herc, I guess they'd probably give tamiflu to immunocompromised folk for normal flu let alone swine flu so wouldn't need to swab?

ah yes, ours was confirmed by phone before someone came out

but we weren't offered anything

But it's not an actual cure anyway. I cant see why she cant go back to school if she's okay with or without the treatment.

True, foxinsocks. That makes sense. No need to confirm for those who are not at risk.

all Tamiflu does is lessen the symptoms if you already have SF - it doesn't stop it spreading, it may delay it.

yes I don't think they'd need to confirm for not at risk (or those not living with someone who's at risk)

they aren't testing here any more

I think it's the autumn when the other flus come back that they will start really watching what happens to it

there seems to be another flu type virus that isn't swine flu doing the rounds in london at the moment and I wonder whether that's the sort of thing they need to mutate (have no idea how this mutating works)

yes Hoochie

I'm not sure - my kids' school has it, and I wirk in a children's centre, so I suppose I was in the front line for catching it one way or another. It's spreading really fast.

The 'rules' for us docs only changed on Thursday afternoon when we went from 'containment' to 'treatment' phase.

The announcement said this "This means that in England the Health Protection Agency will take a step back and primary care will take the lead in diagnosing and distributing antivirals. There will be an immediate end to contact tracing and prophylaxis in all regions; GPs will now provide clinical diagnosis of Swine Flu cases rather than awaiting laboratory test results; and PCTs will now begin to establish antiviral collection points where necessary."

So they say no swabbing anymore, and treatment only for high risk groups (those with underlying health problems).

So yes - the doctors may have said different things but that is because we are being told different things daily too.

(misdee, if you are still on here, what happened with dd4 and the allergy doc?)

foxin, they have taken blood and are testing her for milk, eggs, nuts, shellfish, fish and soya.

people can also come in contact with it and not get it.

that has definitely happened.

we had ours back when they were still swabbing/blood testing so the lab confirmed it.

but we didn't take Tamiflu. we felt strongly that this should only ever have been offered to people who are immuno-compromised or have a health condition or living in a home where there is someone who has an underlying health condition that could make flu very dangerous.

oh poor poppet having blood taken misdee! glad they are testing her though, at least you will get a picture of what's going on

'So yes - the doctors may have said different things but that is because we are being told different things daily too.'

Exactly, thegrowly! We live in an area that had the biggest outbreak in the UK and the PCT was changing the policy sometimes more than once in a single day!

We had it last month.

My friend came to visit from abroad a week after it was long gone from our house, but she and her husband came and went through Glasgow and sat on a trans-Atlantic flight.

5 days later, they fell ill. they were tested in the US, but they have also moved to a policy such as they take with other strains of flu.

Sorry, got side-tracked here, Bear Grylls is on TV and he's almost naked. Phhhwwwooaarrr!

No, surely people arent buying it on teh net. Ffs, if you were in need of it you'd be given it.

Oh, people buy Viagra on the net, I'm not surprised they buy Tamiflu, too.

Hoochie, am v that your clinic has bf support, our HVs just shrug and tell us to go to the GP if we have any worries. The last GP I saw thought it was odd I was still feeding ds at 10 months Can any old fool drop in? I need some help with getting ds to cut down on feeds, or [shallow emoticon] I shall be a blimp forever- I cannot lose weight while he's feeding so much, and being a fattie in the heat is the pits