H1N1 Flu Is A Serious Threat For Children In The 2010-2011 Influenza Season

H1N1 Flu Is A Serious Threat For Children In The 2010-2011 Influenza Season.
Among children hospitalized with the pandemic H1N1 flu wear year in California, more than one-fourth ended up in concentrated heedfulness units or died, California Department of Public Health researchers report. "While hospitalization for 2009 H1N1 influenza in children appeared to surface at like rates as with seasonal influenza, this study provides further manifest that children, especially those with high-risk conditions, can be very ill with H1N1," said lead researcher Dr Janice K Louie. "Fortunately, not many children died. Those that did had many underlying conditions. Antiviral medication given dawn seems to have lessened the fortune of severe illness".

Young people were hit hard by H1N1 flu, with 10- to 18-year-olds accounting for 40 percent of cases, the researchers noted. This was most in all probability due to a insufficiency of immunity, which older people acquired through repeated flu vaccinations of different strains of H1N1 or jeopardy to other H1N1 strains, the experts pointed out.

Flu experts don't predict the H1N1 flu will pose a serious threat in the 2010-2011 flu season, but the study authors demand doctors should promptly treat children with underlying risk factors, especially infants, who get the flu. "My passion is that we are over the hump," said Dr Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medication at New York University in New York City. "I am expecting this to be part of the seasonal flu this year, unless it mutates".

The many man exposed to the H1N1 flu and the sizable host vaccinated against it have created a large herd immunity, which should blunt this flu strain. In addition, the bruited about seasonal flu vaccine, which is recommended for everyone 6 months old and up, contains extortion from H1N1 flu.

For the study, published in the November issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Louie's pair examined the medical records of 345 children who were hospitalized or died from the H1N1 flu between April 23 and Aug 11 of 2009. Their median majority was 6 years. During that time, 3,5 per 100000 children were hospitalized, most younger than 6 months, the researchers noted.

Most of these children (67 percent) suffered from other form problems as well as the flu. Nearly 60 percent had pneumonia, 27 percent were admitted to an comprehensive grief part and 3 percent died, Louie's group found. "Overall, rates of hospitalization in this state series were similar to seasonal influenza, with infants under twelve months of length of existence having the highest rates".

Sixty-nine percent were treated with antiviral drugs, the study authors reported. "Children who had a dogmatic rapid test or who were treated with antivirals early in their illness were less likely to order intensive care unit admission or die". Intensive care hospitalization and death were more credible among children with heart disease, cerebral palsy or developmental problems, the authors added.

Hispanic and unprincipled children were less likely to die or need intensive care than white children, Louie's band said. "For children with influenza-like symptoms, especially those with high-risk conditions, clinicians should have grave suspicion for infection with influenza". And parents should get their children, especially those with underlying health issues, vaccinated against the flu.

In another crack in the same journal issue, researchers looked at children hospitalized for H1N1 flu in Israel. Dr Michal Stein of Edith Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, and colleagues found the issue of children hospitalized and the inflexibility of illness were similar to the findings in the study by Louie and colleagues. "In conclusion, our scrutinize showed that the severity and mortality of 2009 influenza A (H1N1) in Israel were milder than those described in earlier publications and were nearly the same to the figures reported in the literature on seasonal influenza," the researchers wrote natural-breast-success top. "Children with underlying metabolic and neurologic disorders reproduce the series at highest risk for severe complications following 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infection," they concluded.