Beware of new season.

World Health Organization WHO has officially declared the swine flu pandemic ends. However not allowed off guard. Have stalking another more dangerous enemy - the seasonal flu.


For some reason Autumn-Winter flu complications each year world robbed from 250 to 500 thousands of lives and several million more were seriously declining health .
1 - Cold or flu ?
That is the question thousands of years : distinguish how? Both infections are caused by a virus and has many similar symptoms . Among them are : sneezing, runny nose, sore throat , muscle aches and joint pain ( moderate ) , fever . However, they appear with different intensities and at an early stage , when the disease progression , sometimes difficult to define what it is sick .
However, if the planet can still distinguish . Influenza always attacks suddenly - are feeling normal , then within a few tens of minutes I felt sore lower legs . Loss of morale . We only wish to be put to bed .
Body temperature is increasing evidence next confirmed influenza attack . Associated with it is the body feeling tired , even through the pain and muscle joints . Then you can , but not required , that the presence of other unpleasant symptoms such as a runny nose , sore throat and dry cough . With severe flu , sometimes with the whole phenomenon eye , watery eyes .
Cold, contrary to invade us slowly . Often the cause cause feel cold , slightly itchy nose and throat , and itchy inside . It started feeling heavy , occasional sneezing . Appears status fever , but only around body temperature around 38 degrees Celsius mark and rarely exceed this limit .
The majority of cases are not cold shivers , does not have a high fever or severe symptoms such as flu CMA . Depending on the resistance of the body , just a cold or even attack the respiratory system of the victim .

2 - The Fix
With a cold , Western medicine has no cure . Agree can drink ginger tea , ....
In most cases , the flu lasts about a week , despite debilitating physical condition and fatigue may continue even in a few weeks . With a cold , the body restore health faster, usually without complications . But sometimes leave sequelae . The most common is sinusitis , otitis media and pharyngitis , bronchitis .
Influenza can be treated . Use for this purpose is the anti- virus pills ( often shortened sick 1-2 days ) . Condition: need to take medication for up to 48 hours , from the time of appearance of the first symptoms .
Influenza can lead to very serious complications . The most common is pneumonia or bronchitis , otitis media or sinusitis . Rarely , this may have myocarditis and meningitis .
Subjects threatened especially the elderly and those who suffer from chronic diseases of the heart - vessel system , respiratory system and diabetes .
4 - A few things you should know
If you are young and healthy , less deadly flu . However, for children over the age of 65 subjects and victims of chronic diseases , influenza can lead to even death . The reason is that the immune system is incomplete ( for children ) or immune systems are weakened because of the age and weaken support for a variety of chronic diseases . Pneumonia is the most serious complications after influenza .
Experts warned that the risk of death due to complications of influenza and influenza victims in the cardiovascular , chronic diseases 5 times higher than the rest .
5 - Vaccine effective
So far there is no vaccine against cold viruses , but has long been anti- influenza vaccine . There are things a different product each year ( to be prepared with the appropriate vaccine virus specific ) .
By this vaccine can be administered in various ways. Directly through the nasal mucosa , or indirectly through injections : intramuscular injection , subcutaneous injection or injection into the skin . The difference is based on the depth of injection .
Injections into the skin to provide compounds containing influenza antigens ( pieces of virus with the task of stimulating the immune system to produce the appropriate antigen ) . This method used a rare immune properties of the skin .
Flu Vaccine prevention is the most effective weapon , that medicine is . However, even if the vaccine does not provide 100 % guarantee against disease . For healthy adults , the efficiency is 70-90 % . For the elderly and children , lower efficiency and only approximately 60 % .