The swine flu has killed some 2,000 people in the US alone and is continuing to kill more and more each day.  In order to best prepare for the flu, you’ll need to realize how it works and you’ll want to follow these advice tips and precautions.  

1. Drink plenty of water: drinking water is important because it keeps your body working properly and can help fend off fever.  The swine flu is notorious in its ability to dehydrate people, something that weakens your immune system and makes you more easy to further infect.  If you’re dehydrated, for example, you’ll have less lining in your lungs and the flu will infect them more easily.  You’ll also open yourself up to bacterial co-infection.  The flu even has the potential to kill you from dehydration alone, although this is relatively rare and unlikely to happen.

2. Get Tamiflu early if you show flu-like symptoms.  Tamiflu is only useful if you get it in the first couple days after you become infected.  If you don’t get it after then, then it’s really not that useful and won’t help much.  You want to take Tamiflu within 48 hours of showing symptoms, although it is also useful as a preventative, but doctors aren’t really prescribing it for that anymore.  If you can’t find Tamiflu at your local pharmacy, I recommend shopping around for it until you can find some.  It’s incredibly important and not something that should be passed up.

3. Wear N95 masks.  These masks are recommended for health care workers and are therefore recommended for you.  These are good to help you avoid getting the flu but are also good if you have the flu yourself and are around people that are in high risk groups.  While the mask’s filters aren’t small enough to fully block out the virus, they’ll stop the majority of it and will definitely help in avoiding getting sick, as I mentioned before.

4. Make sure you have plenty of food and water to survive if you need to isolate yourself.  If there’s a particularly bad outbreak in your community with multiple people dying, you’ll want to isolate yourself.  These outbreaks can last as long as four weeks, so I recommend getting at least enough food and water to last that long.  It’s not likely that you’ll lose utilities, but you’ll definitely want to avoid going out.  Multiple deaths in your area could mean that a particularly virulent strain is circulating, increasing the odds of you dying if you do catch it.

If you want to learn more about preparing for the swine flu, check out this guide: Survive Swine Flu

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Opportunity Analysis of H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Market

H1N1 Influenza A (2009) is the first pandemic influenza of 21st century affecting more than four lac people in more than 180 countries across the globe in 2009. The flu broke in Mexico in the month of March and then affected U.S. and after that it spread across the globe. H1N1 (2009) influenza have a mutation of pig, bird and humans which has made it more dangerous and fatal compared to previous occurrence of H1N1 (1918). ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Opportunity-Analysis-of-H1N1-swine-fluVaccination-Market.html )

The pandemic outbreak of the influenza opened the gates for the drugs such as Tamiflu in the initial phase for the curing of the disease but the following phase will see a shift from curing to prevention. Thus, arise the requirement for the vaccine for the treatment of H1N1. H1N1 vaccine market is the forecast for the upcoming vaccines for the prevention of the disease among the unaffected population. The vaccines market is classified for the intramuscular vaccines and intranasal vaccines. Intramuscular will cater 80-85% of market revenues and the remaining will be tapped by the intranasal vaccines. The initial lot of vaccines will be of egg based and cell based manufacturing. The market forecast is from late 2009 as the first lot of doses are expected to be rolled out in the first week of October 2009.

The first movers of the in the vaccines market are Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), Novartis, CSL, Medimmune, Baxter, Sinovec and Sanofi Pastuer. Medimmune is the only producer of the intranasal vaccine whereas other companies are expected to come out with intramuscular vaccines. The companies have got approvals for their first lots from the governments of the various countries such as U.S., U.K., France, China, Denmark and Australia. The involvement of government bodies, increased awareness about prevention and pandemic situation of the influenza is driving the market for the vaccines. Due to intensive ongoing research and technology introduction, the market players are compelled to understand the market dynamics, innovations, pricing, products, marketing and regulatory framework of the market.

The global H1N1 Influenza vaccine market is estimated to be of 676 million in 2009 with first lot of doses being commercialized on 30th September’ 2009. The market will see a high CAGR for the next two years i.e. the market is expected to be at $7.03 billion in 2011 with a CAGR of 222.4% from 2009 to 2011. However, the very high CAGR will settle down by 2012 to 30% for the period of 2009 to 2012. The reason for the sudden settle down of the growth is that it is expected that most of the world population will be immunized by the end of 2011.

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As swine flu sweeps our nation and rest of the world, public awareness fueled by media, leads to people seeking out early surveillance and intervention on their own, in an effort to head off serious illness. You can’t blame them for wanting to protect themselves and their families, as over a million cases have been documented in the U.S. alone; so many that the CDC has quit counting. There are 2 medications on the market that have been shown to be effective against swine flu, Relenza and Tamiflu. These medicines have to be administered within 2 days of the onset of symptoms (which last about a week), and are said to shorten the duration of symptoms by about 2 days. Because early detection is vital for the efficacy of these drugs, rapid detection is necessary. Many manufacturers are currently working on versions of a rapid H1N1 test to allow early detection in minutes, as opposed to days as is with traditional virus testing.

The trouble is, the preliminary results of these types of these tests have been poor. It was determined that too many false negative results, as many as half, occurred on a regular basis. In other words, the test failed to detect known swine flu in laboratory conditions, meaning a negative test at the doctor’s office wouldn’t actually guarantee that you don’t really have the swine flu. This is important because the patients at higher risk that really need the medication might not be treated due to false negative results.

The bottom line is, at this point we don’t have a rapid swine flu test. Plus, the seasonal flu and swine flu symptoms are mostly indistinguishable and similar in duration. Those symptoms include fever, headache, coughing, sore throat, and muscle pains, and sometimes diarrhea or vomiting. If shortness of breath occurs, you may have swine flu. Still however, symptoms of both should only last about a week. Either way, if your going to go to the doctor to get him to write you a prescription for Tamiflu, go the first or second day you get symptoms, otherwise the medication won’t be effective.

Keep in mind that the media fuels paranoia and irrational behavior, so use your best judgment before running to the ER or your doctor’s office. Remember during the first gulf war and after 911 when gas masks were flying off the shelves of U.S. Army surplus stores? People didn’t even know what kind of nerve gas or chemical warfare they were trying to protect themselves from, they just felt better having something. For the flu, it may just be better to take some swine flu precautions and swine flu vaccine and stay in bed, and catch up on your favorite TV shows.

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