Epiglottitis is a life threatening illness.
The epiglottis is the piece of cartilage-located in the back of the tongue that closes the windpipe during swallowing. It prevents food from entering the airways, so you do not cough or choke after swallowing. (more…)
Two symptoms that at any other time would not give citizens more important but if you notice these days intraquilizan more than one. Do I have the seasonal flu, which I have already suffered other winters, or influenza A/H1N1, of the new virus that is still being studied? This will be the question many raised during the coming months.
Currently, anyone with fever over 38 º C and acute respiratory infection symptoms could be infected by the new influenza virus A/H1N1, officially declared pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) since last month June.
How to distinguish?
Both WHO and the Ministry of Health on their websites give information about the symptoms of both infections and the mode of transmission. And it turns out are quite similar, so the final confirmation on whether it is over and will give the laboratory.
However, certain differences do exist. For example, the fever rises faster and is higher among those affected by avian influenza A that common. And nasal congestion, seasonal influenza itself, is very rare in the case of new infection.
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