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• They Say: Pregnant Women with the Flu Should Take Antivirals

  Given that pregnant women are among those considered at high risk for severe cases of swine flu, and there has been at least one death, concerned doctors have experimented with giving them antiviral medications early, to apparently good results. Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 04:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: pregnancy, cdc, flu, Axel-Lute, swine flu, tamiflu, flu and pregnancy, antivirals, medications while pregnant, flu symptoms, drugs in pregnancy

• 5 Tips for Parenting While Sick

  Recently I had a non-swine like flu. It felled me with a single mighty and powerful punch. There were fevers, chills, aches and pains. I was totally out of commission. Generally when I opt to acquire some kind of horrible virus, I tend to try to let it attack when my partner is as right as rain so he can take over. Sadly, on this occassion, my husband got bitten by the bug at the same exact time. And he got it worse. The one person who wasn’t affected by this almighty affliction? Our action packed three-year-old girl. My husband and I were met with a very real dilemma…how to functionally parent while being totally sick.  Here are five tips to survive those sick days. Read More... Posted May 01 2009, 06:03 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: illness, flu, swine flu, family illness, what to do when you are sick, parenting sick, family sickness

• Swine Flu Claims First US Victim

  The swine flu pandemic has claimed its first victim here in America, according to U.S. officials, and he was just shy of his second birthday. Although the toddler was in Texas, he was actually a Mexican native visiting the states with his family. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 04:23 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: news, mexico, sick kids, healthcare, virus, flu, Jeanne Sager, swine flu

• Swine Flu - Are You Worried About Your Kids?

  I'm a bit of a hypochondriac. It's not a debilitating thing, but I do have a bit of the "hangnail = brain tumor" thing going on. (A comedienne whose name I can't recall had a line somewhat like this, and apparently it's also on an episode of ER. But I digress.) So when I heard about the swine flu that is sweeping the nation (you can track which parts using this handy map) I admit that I became slightly more paranoid about any coughing and sniffling that my guys were doing. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 12:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: influenza, illness, doctors, flu, sick, pig, Brett Singer, sickness, outbreak, pig flu, paranoid, hypochondriac, does my kid have swine flu, swine flu symptoms, paranoia, are you afraid that your child will catch swine flu, swine flu looks like regular flu, swine flu

• Swine Flu: What you need to know

  The CDC has confirmed 109 cases of Swine flu in the U.S. and states have reported several more, prompting the Department of Health and Human services to declare a Public Health Emergency. While government officials try to halt this outbreak, what do you need to know?  Check out CNN's extensive swine flu Q&A to learn about past swine flu outbreaks, why health officials are concerned, and the preventive measures you can take, plus more. Some quick facts: Swine wine influenza, or flu, is a contagious respiratory disease that affects pigs. It is caused by a type-A influenza virus. Outbreaks in pigs occur year-round. Humans aren't usually infected and researchers have yet to determine the cause behind this outbreak. Symptoms are very similar to the common flu: fever, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, etc. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 10:37 AM by editors with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: health, emergency, flu, Global Exchange, outbreak, swine flu, bird flu, SARS, epidemic

• Is it the Flu?

  After news that the flu virus has claimed several kids around the nation in recent weeks because they hadn't been vaccinated, I can't be the only parent who needed to brush up on her flu facts.  Because along with all that misinformation on the flu vaccine floating around, there are a lot of misperceptions about the flu itself. Just listen to the parents in the preschool line talking about how their kid got the flu this year - because they got him the flu shot.  Er, no. It doesn't work that way. The flu shot might not prevent against every strain of the flu (this year's vaccine protects against the A strain of the virus circulating and at least one-third of the B strain that's been reported), but it also does not infect you our your kids with the flu. It's an inactive virus. So how do you know if it works? Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 10:02 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: influenza, flu, Jeanne Sager

• Flu Has Claimed at Least Three Kids This Season

  When people ask me why I'm so pro-vaccine, I have one answer: they prevent disease and/or death.  So why have three kids already died in what is being described by doctors as a pretty average flu season? Read More... Posted Feb 19 2009, 08:09 AM by JeanneSager with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: vaccinations, immunizations, influenza, vaccines, flu, Jeanne Sager, flu shot, immunize

• Cough Cover: Because We Can't Possibly Make Them Use a Tissue

  OK, I'm all for mompreneurship and new ideas to make parenting easier. But a cover for kids sleeves to trap their runny nose germs? Aren't we supposed to be teaching them NOT to wipe their nose with their sleeves? Read More... Posted Feb 04 2009, 11:20 AM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: coughing, hygiene, bizarre, colds, flu, nurse, Jeanne Sager, cold season, weird gadgets, sleeves, tissues, cough cover, runny hose

• They Say: no cold medicine for kids 4 and under

  Kid has a stuffy nose? Suck it up. Well, not literally. But don't give them over the counter cold medicine. That's the word from the FDA, who are now saying that you shouldn’t give cold meds to any child under 4 years old. Read More... Posted Oct 08 2008, 11:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: medicine, health care, FDA, cold medicine, colds, flu, Brett Singer, they say, flu shot, meds, food and drug administration, no cold medicine for kids under 4, over the counter

• CDC: Flu Plus Infection Killing Kids

  A deadly combo of the flu and resistent bacterial infection has killed at least 22 kids in 2006 and 2007 and officials aren't sure what to do about it.  Almost a third of child deaths from the flu in those years found that methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, was also present. From UPI:   Read More... Posted Apr 28 2008, 02:30 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: influenza, childhood illness, cdc, mrsa, flu, deadly disease, resistent bacterial infection

• Weekly Check-Up: Your Stress Makes Your Kid Sick

  Feeling anxious and depressed? Well, now you have one more thing to angst about, because a new study suggests parental emotional stress can make kids more vulnerable to illness. Like it is enough that stress makes you more likely to get sick, now your children have to be felled by the latest bug as well. I totally knew that stomach flu my kid got was my fault, I just hadn't figured out how I caused it yet. Researchers based the finding on both... Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 02:32 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, health, research study, fathers, mothers, depression, stress, illness, weekly check up, immune system, flu, report, sick, cold

• Mom Gets Ticket While Sick Kid Barfs In Car

  I feel for moms and dads when I find things like this in newspapers, because what parent hasn't had a day like this? Gina Boyd's three-year-old daughter was running a fever and had an earache, so they climbed into the family van and headed for a clinic. As they were driving, the girl started making choking noises and throwing up, so Gina made an illegal U-turn to pull over and care for her kid. Aaaand that's when she heard sirens behind her.  Now, you might assume the officer would show some mercy considering the circumstances...   Read More... Posted Feb 01 2008, 08:29 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: police, sick kids, health and kids, illness, jerks, flu, clinic, ticket, vomit, cops, traffic stop, citation

• Shots Without the Shot? Where Do I Sign?

  Show of hands: Which of you parents actually teared up the first few times your babies got shots? Me, me, me. I'm embarassed to admit, that I even got a little weepy when our dog got his rabies booster. Clearly, I suffer some kind of imbalance. So imagine how delighted I am ... Read More... Posted Jan 31 2008, 09:15 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: research study, vaccinations, flu shots, vaccination, vaccines, shots, vaccine, flu

• Oh, Those Whining Sick Kids!

  Sorry, can't get the sick-kid thing out of my mind lately. Maybe it's from the nose-wipage snail-tracks decorating my couch? Or the hacking phlegm-sounds invading my dreams at night, followed by the [intentionally weak-sounding] call of "Mamaaaaa!" Or the doe eyes that stare up at me, pleadingly, beseechingly, as if somehow that intense eye contact would be enough not only to convey what feeling like crap feels like but also to magically transfer it to someone—anyone—else. I know you know what I'm talking about.   Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 03:02 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: BlogHer, flu shots, sick kids, whining, flu