HCM City's first patient infected with H1N1 flu

Male 58-year-old patient was found positive for influenza A / H1N1, transferred from Thu Duc District Hospital to Tropical Diseases Hospital for treatment.

After 4 days of treatment at the Tropical Diseases Hospital, the patient's health has recovered steadily and is expected to be discharged soon.

About 10 days ago, male patients resided Linh Trung and Thu Duc, entered Thu Duc District Hospital in the state of acute respiratory failure. Previously, the patient had high fever, chills, body aches, diarrhea, yellow sputum, and difficulty breathing.

This is the first H1N1 flu patient in the year in Ho Chi Minh City.

Doctor Nguyen Minh Quan, Director of Thu Duc District Hospital said that the patient was treated with high dose antibiotics, nutrition, respiratory support . With the diagnosis of H1N1 flu , the patient was consulted and transferred to the Disease. Tropical Diseases Institute on April 23. Currently, the health of patients has recovered stably, alert, and improved breathing.

This is the first H1N1 flu patient in the year in Ho Chi Minh City.Influenza A / H1N1 is a virus that circulates year-round , but often occurs during late autumn and winter. This type of swine flu virus has many different variants. Symptoms of H1N1 flu are similar to the common symptoms of the flu, such as sudden high fever, body aches, headache, fatigue, dry cough, runny nose, sore throat.

Healthy people after a few days will be gone. People with weak organs, the elderly, malnourished children, diabetes . will be severely ill, causing complications of pneumonia. Severe cases can lead to death. Any flu strain is dangerous because it can cause pneumonia. So when there are signs of flu, fever, cough, people should not be subjective, need to seek medical treatment for early treatment. When signs of flu should be restricted to crowded places to avoid spreading to others. Perform good nasal hygiene with physiological saline, often wear a mask when going to crowded places, when contacting patients . to prevent disease.