2007-02-05 09:13:41 · 6 answers · asked by CHRISTOPHER R 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
generally if there is a fever, it is more likely to be the flu. you dont say where the soreness is - is it in the throat, or his body? if he has body aches, it is definately the flu.
2007-02-05 09:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by Minerva 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the flu most often the temperature will be quiet high and won't stay down, and have sore throat, coughing and could have a runny nose......but just because he has a fever doesn't mean he has the flu......why are you guessing? I would just carry him in to be checked for it for there is a flu test and medicine for it if he does test positive for it. If not, then something else can help him get better sooner.
2007-02-05 15:06:32 · answer #2 · answered by Gypsygrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The average child gets about 7 viral infections a year. These get better on their own with no specific treatment. Unfortunately every now and then a child develops a serious illness. The only real way to exclude this is to get a formal check up with a GP. Unfortunately this is a massive double edged sword. Despite the fact that there is no possibility that any of these 7 viral illnesses will conceivably derive any benefit from antibiotics. Despite the fact that nearly 30% of people given antibiotics will get some level of side effect, including at the far end of the spectrum, death from anaphalaxis, despite the fact we slow the immune response for future infection and cause increasing antibiotic resistance, in most parts of the developed world there is a 50-90% chance that they will be prescribed unnecessarily for your child.
I don't have an answer for that one. I can only say on a personal level that I have been fighting such activity for 3 decades.
2007-02-09 05:40:59 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the fever, the most likely answer is the flu.
Check out this website for an easy check-list for flu and cold symptoms.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/Publications/cold/sick.pdf
2007-02-05 09:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by tah_map 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be the flu..also if you have a viral infection and it takes more then 5 days often you also attract a bacterial infection. Also it is the other way around. That is why I use and many others Oil of Oregano. Oil of Oregano is anti viral and anti bacterial...it works for both infections. See source
2007-02-05 16:57:44 · answer #5 · answered by Pieternel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's influzeana flu type A, outbreak from Southeastern US.
2007-02-08 16:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by toodd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋