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How do you recognize the flu?
Many respiratory infections caused by viruses are symptomatically similar to each other. How to distinguish the onset of the usual seasonal acute respiratory infections from the formidable viral disease "Influenza"? How to recognize the flu?
The influenza virus is highly virulent, which means that the rate of its spread in the body and the degree of intoxication of the body will differ from any other viral respiratory infection. In just twenty-four hours, one virus is able to multiply up to 10 23. It is for this reason that the prodromal period with influenza takes only 1-2 days.
Clinical manifestations of the presence of influenza viruses in the body consist in a sharp change in the state of health towards its deterioration.
Typical flu signs the flu (onset suddenly):
- Chills,
- Weakness,
- Brokenness,
- Joint and / or muscle pain,
- Body aches, especially in the lumbosacral region,
- Sweating,
- Headache aggravated by eye movement.
With a severe form of flu, neurotoxic disorders are possible:
- Photophobia,
- Vomiting,
- Hypersensitivity to sounds and / or smells,
- Light-headedness,
- Convulsions,
- Increased blood pressure.
Outwardly, a person who has fallen ill with the flu looks lethargic, inhibited, has a reddish, swollen face.
Catarrhal symptoms of the disease Influenza develops with a delay (unlike other respiratory viral infections): only after a few days a runny nose, swelling of the mucous membranes of the oropharynx, perspiration, lacrimation appear.
Influenza is a serious disease that brings the body to exhaustion, for this reason, general weakness after the end of the disease can persist for another 2-3 weeks.
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