Public Health Seattle and King County is asking parents to be on the front line of stopping flu infections:
Please talk to your children about how they are feeling. If your child is sick, keep your child home. Staying home when sick helps reduce exposure to others and helps the sick person get well faster.
Answer these questions every morning before sending your child to school or child care:
- Does your child have a fever (100º F or 37. 7ºC)?
- Does your child have a sore throat, cough, body aches, vomiting, or diarrhea?
If you answered “yes” to both questions, your child might have the flu. Keep your child home from school for seven days or until symptoms are gone for 24 hours, whichever is longer.
If you answered “yes” to only one of the questions, keep your child home from school until symptoms are gone for 24 hours.
In addition to health and safety information about H1N1/Swine Flu, starting today, the Flu Hotline will offer callers an opportunity to speak with registered nurses.
(The hotline starts with a recorded message, follow the prompts for the best language option and when asked if you want “health and safety information about the H1N1 flu” or “if you have the flu,” follow the prompt to “if you have the flu.” This will take you to the menu that allows you to select “talk to a nurse.”)
Hotline nurses will tell callers how to manage their symptoms at home, tell them if they need to see a doctor or health care provider and answer other medical questions about H1N1 flu.
The Flu Hotline number is 1-877-903 KING (5464)
Related:
- Swine Flu Update: Aki & Others Will Reopen Tuesday (5/4/09)
- South-End School Closes Under Threat of Swine Flu (4/30/09)
- Madrona K-8 Closed as Precaution Against Spreading Swine Flu (4/30/09)
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As a nurse of 30 years, I find it interesting that there is little talk about prevention and healthy living to boost your immune system. If you are strong with a good defense there will be no cause for alarm. a few simple guidelines: Reducing toxins in your environment, eating lots of fresh organic locally grown fruit and vegetables, elimitaing junk food and high sugar drinks/snacks, washing hands frequently with unscented biodegradable natural soaps, covering your mouth when coughing or sneezing.
Thank you Peg. Your guidelines are also simple suggestions that could avert a much more likely/widespread and dangerous (than the H1N1 virus) host of other ailments such as early onset diabetes, heart disease, and promotion of drug resistant bacteria.
Although I am just as scared of the next real pandemic as the CDC would like us to be, I have to wonder if our recent body count from youth violence were attributable to H1N1, what resources could we expect?
For the record, I would like to state that I have absolutely no fear of catching or being maimed by the swine flu. A much more dreadful contagious disease that’s taking the nation by storm deserves much more press coverage. It goes by the name “stupidity.”
As soon as you hand me your checkbook and the keys to your house, I have some land to sell you in Florida…
The nurse is right. If anyone was really concerned about dying from the swine flu, these stories would be more about boosting the immune system rather than relying on the government to spend another few $ billion of hard-earned taxpayer money buying more mercury-tainted, autism-causing vaccines from a pharmaceutical corporate monster, for a virus that’s no more problematic for the vast majority of people than the common cold.
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