Influenza in Children | Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Influenza

This illness is commonly called flu and is caused by a virus.

Symptoms of Influenza in Children

• Muscle’s ache and very high temperature. The aches are worst in the back, shoulders, hips and thighs.
• The person finds it difficult to get out of bed due to very high temperature.
  This phase usually lasts for a short span of two to three days.
• This is followed by exhaustion that can last for a few days.
• Complications like chest infection and blocked sinuses may arise.
• Older children feel cold one minute and hot the next.
• Headaches are also common.

Treatment for Flu in Children

• There is no treatment for flu. If the child has fever give recommended dosage of Paracetamol.
• Call the doctor if there are other symptoms that worry you.
• Only in special cases children are recommended vaccine for flu. In regular cases vaccines are avoided.
• In regular uncomplicated flu cases antibiotics are of no use. They are useful when complications like sinusitis arise.

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