Parents Should Be Alert To Flu Signs; eighth child in Michigan to die in the last month

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[mommadooo3]

FReepers in Ohio may want to be a little cautious.(we're SE OH) Our 12 y.o. came home sick yesterday from school. She had low grade temp, headache, stomach-ache. She said the boy who sits next to her got sent home with the same symptoms.

I just got done talking to someone at the school and she said that the flu is going around this area. She described it as, 'fever, coughing, flu symps, and it turns into strep throat'.

I will be calling the school nurse here shortly to see what her 'opinions' are about this. I don't expect to get the 'run-around' from her because she's also a Christian.

BTW... I'm NOT trying to cause a panic or 'undue worry'. But since this flu thingy has been known to take kids, I figure forewarned is forearmed.

[patton]

My son went to Frost, before we moved back to VA. We used to live in Essex Heights.

[patton]

...and that same son was born in St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, VA.

This is creepy.

[giotto]

stiffness and soreness in the neck, very sudden and persistent headaches, sudden high fever, disorientation

This sounds like meningitis.

[petitfour]

A 39 year old, very healthy colleague of a friend died this last week from a pneumonia-like, fast-hitting illness. Shocked coworkers. Same area of VA as the seven children who have died with similar conditions.

[flutters]

Could this be related to SARS?

[petitfour]

At this point, I doubt it because I haven't heard of others who were around the guy contracting similar illness. The CDC did seem to pinpoint in most of the VA child cases some cause such as flu or strep.

[syriacus]

Maria C. Carter, 2, of Portsmouth, may have suffered from an infection that moved to her heart, medical examiners said after an autopsy.

My youngest daughter (18) was diagnosed with pneumonia a few months back. At the same time I was diagnosed with bronchitis.

Shortly after, another daughter (28) came down with the same cough we had. She developed chest pain and an audible clicking noise in her chest that was eventually diagnosed as possible mitral valve prolapse by an emergency room doctor.

She saw her regular doctor before and after the ER visit. Each time he said he thought she had the pain because she had pulled a muscle.

The pain persisted and she finally got to see a cardiologist who thinks she had (viral) pericarditis (inflammation of the sac around the heart.)

It turned out that a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug was what she needed. The same type of drug her own doctor had recommended for the "pulled muscle."

[syriacus]

My youngest daughter (18) was diagnosed with pneumonia a few months back

I forgot to mention that getting a diagnosis of pneumonia took three attempts.

First my husband took her to our clinic, where the doctor said there was "no problem."

A night or two later I made a worried phone call to a doctor who was covering for our clinic and he said there was "no problem."

The next day we brought her in to "urgent visit" at the clinic and an X-ray showed she had pneumonia.

[TaxRelief]

Should this one be revisited, too?

[SauronOfMordor]

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