Quote Originally Posted by RICHYD4U View Post
Unfortunately, everyone in your household has been exposed. This virus is highly contagious and doesn't discriminate. Although it appears that it hits the young ones the hardest, the actual numbers show that it has hit the teenagers the worst. There have been hundreds of kids with it around my area, with no reported deaths. Kids are overcoming it, just like the regular flu. I talked to a peditrician friend the other day, and he said that the hype about the H1N1 flu strain is just that...hype. He said they see kids on a daily basis that have the H1N1, and they aren't even treating it with tamiflu, they just let the body take care of it with regular flu regimends. He says that tamiflu is hard on kids, that's why they try to avoid it.

Rest up, drink lots of fluids, take your tamiflu and you'll be back on the water in a week. Hang in there!

As for the vaccine, no thanks. I will take the flu over its potential side effects! IMO

-Rich
I agree with you on alot of your points. I am not an expert , but I did do the math. I have seen where there have been 43 child deaths from this flu , and my daughters age there have been 5 of those 43 , and it says many of those children had chronic underlying conditions ( mine doesnt , that we know of , and I pray it stays that way). So , Im not in a big hurry to get the shot for her. However , I crunch numbers at work... In 1976 46,000,000 people got the vaccine and of those 46million , 4000 were diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome. Simple math says that 99.99% of people vaccanited were fine , while .01% vaccanited got GBS. Numbers are very much in favor of the vaccine. This is the only reason pointed out to me by the anti vaccine peoples of the world to not get the shot. I dont think thats all that great of a reason , is there another reason not to get the shot ? I will not inject my child with the nasal mist , as it contains the weakened live virus. I would consider the shot without the thimerosal in it.