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Swine Flu or Allergies: How Do You Tell the Difference?
Given that allergy season is upon us, people are wondering how to tell the difference between allergy and swine flu symptoms?"
Ev345 asks, "My question is how do you differentiate between swine flu and seasonal as well as indoor(to cats/dogs/dust mite etc.) allergies?
It's actually pretty easy.
Symptoms of swine flu are like regular flu symptoms and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue.
There are 2 symptoms that are always present with the swine flu that you don't get with allergies.
While allergies can make you feel awful, allergies do not cause fever. Without fever, you don't have the swine flu. Another symptom that almost everyone with the flu will have is body aches. This is also very unusual with seasonal allergies or allergies to dogs or cats.
A runny nose and congested sinuses, even if combined with coughing, are not signs of swine flu. If these are your symptoms, you likely have either allergies or possibly a sinus infection. Not so pleasant either, but certainly not swine flu.
Still worried about the swine flu? The WebMD news team did a great piece on 7 reasons why you don't need to worry.
And in case you didn't keep up with the latest swine flu news over the weekend (we're all allowed a break), today's story "H1N1 Swine Flu: No State Is Immune" will bring you up to speed.
Let us know what's on your mind. Have a question? We'll put our team of writers, editors, and doctors to work and try to find out for you.
Ev345 asks, "My question is how do you differentiate between swine flu and seasonal as well as indoor(to cats/dogs/dust mite etc.) allergies?
It's actually pretty easy.
Symptoms of swine flu are like regular flu symptoms and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue.
There are 2 symptoms that are always present with the swine flu that you don't get with allergies.
While allergies can make you feel awful, allergies do not cause fever. Without fever, you don't have the swine flu. Another symptom that almost everyone with the flu will have is body aches. This is also very unusual with seasonal allergies or allergies to dogs or cats.
A runny nose and congested sinuses, even if combined with coughing, are not signs of swine flu. If these are your symptoms, you likely have either allergies or possibly a sinus infection. Not so pleasant either, but certainly not swine flu.
Still worried about the swine flu? The WebMD news team did a great piece on 7 reasons why you don't need to worry.
And in case you didn't keep up with the latest swine flu news over the weekend (we're all allowed a break), today's story "H1N1 Swine Flu: No State Is Immune" will bring you up to speed.
Let us know what's on your mind. Have a question? We'll put our team of writers, editors, and doctors to work and try to find out for you.
5 Comments:
4 weeks ago my washing machine brook.I went to laundry shop to do my laundry,after returning to my home in the night i started to fill chills,ackes in all my body and in the morning was worse ,I felt my throat had something in it like blocked with scarring pain.I thougt was acase of normal flu it will pass I said,but took me 4 weeks in bed plus my dog become ill with same .I have never seen a dog catching illness same as human.I hope I didn't spread any disease here in the us.2 years ago wile I was traveling to Morocco wich I am from I become gravely ill with the same thing,I almost died I was treated with antibiotics.Pls,you thing I could be carriying some virus,because every time I get sick with this it getting worse.
Well from what i have read on the swine flu, you dont have to have a feever to have the swine flu....there has been 2 confermed cases about this, i was looking it up cause i have ashtma ans have been sick with body ackes head aches and the chills not to mention it is hard for me to even move due to dizness, i have been on the z-pack and now cipero and it dose not seen to be hlping mush, so needles to say i am concerned now and going to call ht e soc after i go take another nap right not!!! So you can have the swine flu without a feever remember that now specially if u cant breath and hurt all over, a =oh and have diarrhea or vomiting along wit it!
you can have a fevers from allergies.
for the last week i have been sneezin a lot, then last night my throat and sinuses started to plug up, and now today i'm getting really hot then really cold over and over again. i'm dizzy, always hungry and have body aches. does anybody know if this is the seasonal flu, swine flu, or just allergies?
The symptoms of H1N1 (swine flu) indicated here are different from what the CDA (center for disease control) has posted on their website.
*What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people?
The symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus in people include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea. People may be infected with the flu, including 2009 H1N1 and have respiratory symptoms without a fever. Severe illnesses and deaths have occurred as a result of illness associated with this virus.*
Please visit the CDA website for better, reliable information reguarding H1N1 (swine flu).
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