David Jones is a patient who is presenting with symptoms of fever, cough and body aches...
David Jones is a patient who is presenting with symptoms of fever, cough and body aches he has had for three days. Your doctor orders an influenza test. Mr. Jones had his flu vaccine three months earlier. How can Mr. Jones have influenza if he had been given the vaccine? How is influenza tested for? How does the physician decide when to treat influenza and what medications are used?
Homework Answers
Influenza vaccination can prevent only few viruses from infecting (swine flu,B virus,H3N2 virus) There are always possibility of getting infected with new virus when an individual is week or has a low immunity easily.
The best way to test for influenza is the use of Rapid Influenza Test which can give result in less than 20 minutes.
The physician decides the treatment in accordance with the incubation period and when the person is highly contagious of spreading the disease. The physician when suspects or confirms about the flu the medication are started immediately because the patients are highly infectious in the first day.In certain cases the patients are infectious for about a week.
The most common oral medication used are Oseltamivir,Zanamivir.
Baloxavir is a single dose oral medication to treat influenza .
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