Tag: flu shot

Tamiflu – How Does Tamiflu Compare To Other Anti Flu Medications?

Posted on Aug.16, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

There are hardly any medicines that are available for treating flu. Among these Tamiflu is the only medication that is good in treating flu. Here I will be covering some of the symptoms of the flu. So this will tell you when you should take Tamiflu and what other medications are available for the flu.
Flu Symptoms
The symptoms for the flu are a sore throat. This is the beginning of the chapter called the flu. This [...]


Tamiflu – Can You Take Tamiflu As A Preventative Measure Before Flu Infection?

Posted on Aug.15, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

Tamiflu as a preventive measure
Can you take Tamiflu as a preventive measure? This is a popular question that everybody is asking the world as of now. For those of the lesser informed a word about what Tamiflu is for, and what causes you to take the drug.
What Tamiflu is?
Tamiflu is a prescription drug for the influenza. What causes this influenza? Influenza is an infection caused by the virus. There are three types of [...]


Flu Virus And Bird Flu – Can Flu And Avian Flu Be Cured With Antibiotics?

Posted on Aug.15, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

To understand this, let us first have a look on what Flu and Avian Flu is.
What is flu?
Flu is a disease which has the following symptoms. They are fever with temperature above 38 degree centigrade or 100 degree Fahrenheit. You may also suffer from chills, muscular pain, severe headaches, tiredness, and a loss in your appetite, soreness of the throat, cough and chest pain. The symptoms may last for a few days and will heal [...]


To Flu Shot or Not to Flu Shot? That is the Question

Posted on Aug.13, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

By: Nan Andrews Amish
With Avian Flu in the news, parents, seniors, healthcare providers are exploring the question of whether flu shots are appropriate, and if they should be mandated to protect us all from the risk. The fact that many doctors can not get the shots should not be a deterrent for those who are convinced of the benefit. Most drug stores still have stock available.
Flu shots are not a slam dunk. They are controversial. [...]


The Flu Shot – What you Need to Know About the Hype

Posted on Aug.08, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

Oh, oh, it is flu season again, and with it comes the quandary?should I get a flu shot or should I take an alternative route. We think it would help if you got the pros and cons to assist in making an intelligent choice.
We know what they are saying out there. If you get the flu shot, you can go anywhere and do anything and you are invincible and totally exempt from catching anything. The question is, if the [...]


Is The Bird Flu Vaccine Like A Regular Flu Shot?

Posted on Aug.08, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

The bird flu vaccine is a completely different vaccine than the standard flu shot. This bird flu vaccine will only protect against the bird flu and not any other strains of flu. There is not even a real bird flu vaccine available that we the public are able to get yet. It will be some time before we can get a bird flu vaccine.
The only known bird flu vaccine is still in the experimental stages and they do not even [...]


Kick the Flu Out Without Taking Any Medicine and Tamiflu

Posted on Aug.07, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

Every winter, there are many reasons to worry about the flu. This year we are doing the same thing, but to an even greater extent. Scientists and physicians have made many announcements, issued many reports, and given many speeches regarding the terrible bird flu. Everyone is concerned as since we repeatedly read and hear these reports in newspapers and magazines, and on the internet, radio and television.
Why are we scared? Living in this high technology world, what problem is there [...]


Warning! Flu Shots Can Be Dangerous To Your Health

Posted on Aug.02, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

Every year about this time doctors around the world are recommending that people go in and get their annual flu shot. What most people don?t know or understand is just how dangerous this could be, especially for children under the age of 12. When people call and say ?My doctor is telling the family to go in and get a flu shot. Should I do it???I tell them they should learn about the side effects and decide [...]


Protect Yourself Against the Flu Vaccine!

Posted on Aug.02, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

The vaccine industry insists that their vaccines against the flu serve as the key to a healthy winter. Although there has not been a serious flu epidemic for 38 years, their vaccines are prescribed to millions of people each year. You may wonder why perfectly healthy people are injected with a normally harmless bug whose strains mutate from year to year? Although flu vaccines can never be accurate, encouraged by their employers, millions of employees submit to a flu jab [...]


How Do I Make My Immune System Stronger?

Posted on Feb.13, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments

Questions like ?how do I make my immune system stronger? are becoming easier to answer, because of growing scientific research. Sometimes discoveries are made by accident, when diseases or viruses are being studied. Some information comes to us because of studies involving the immune system and flu shot vaccines.
There is still much that is unknown about how the immune system functions. New research indicates that some diseases which had been blamed on an overactive immune system may [...]


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