General Medical issues thread

[Seat0B]

Forgot to say, Seat Daughter now also has pneumonia and is on antibiotics and steroi_s and will also be taking all of next week off work too.

I didn't know that vomiting ws typical of flu, but apparently it is really common in kids.

 

[Pushka]

Seat Daughter has been very sick for a week with Influenza A. Seat Granddaughter got it a couple of days later and has had a hospital visit for high fever 40.7 degrees and uncontrollable vomiting. Seat DIL has somehow not caught it. In conversation, the reason emerged ... Seat DIL had a flu shot. Seat Daughter was "too busy" and did not get hers or take Seat Granddaughter either . More proof that vaccination works.

I regularly get flu shots and have only had flu once - in 2017- the year I was "too busy" and didn't get around to it. It was such a truly bad experience, I have never been too busy to get it ever again. I suspect the Daughter and Granddaughter will not forget it in a hurry either.

I think the vaccination should have been free for all adults. For families really struggling it might mean the difference.

 

[prozac]

Seat Daughter has been very sick for a week with Influenza A. Seat Granddaughter got it a couple of days later and has had a hospital visit for high fever 40.7 degrees and uncontrollable vomiting. Seat DIL has somehow not caught it. In conversation, the reason emerged ... Seat DIL had a flu shot. Seat Daughter was "too busy" and did not get hers or take Seat Granddaughter either . More proof that vaccination works.

I regularly get flu shots and have only had flu once - in 2017- the year I was "too busy" and didn't get around to it. It was such a truly bad experience, I have never been too busy to get it ever again. I suspect the Daughter and Granddaughter will not forget it in a hurry either.

I don't want to revisit my comments when we discussed this 4 yrs ago and I boasted I had not had flu etc in years...I still haven't.

 

[prozac]

Generally someone in the Sleep disorders or neurology areas.

What I was thinking. Might need a 24hr sleep study. Organisations like the Head, Sleep and Circadian Research Group (CIRUS), Woolcock Institute at Macquarie uni. I know of a good doctor in this area (Philip Lee) but he is in Eastwood, Sydney. He diagnosed MsP when many specialists completely missed her associated sleep affliction.

 

[drron]

I get a flu shot every year and if I am going to the northern hemisphere in winter I have another shot unless they have not changed it.
Never had the flu but one year I had RSV ironically when I was running a flu ward..