The Preventive Medicine Sector of the Ministry of Health and Population revealed the procedures followed in the case of influenza infection, saying: When you feel flu-like symptoms such as a high temperature of 38 degrees or more with a cough during the last ten days, the case is simple and not among high-risk categories, and a treatment for symptoms is given At home, and follow the procedures taken at home.
The Preventive Medicine Sector said: In simple cases within high-risk groups, oseltamivir (Taminil) treatment is administered at home for five days and the measures taken at home are followed.
The Preventive Medicine Sector at the Ministry of Health continued, in severe cases, any sign of respiratory deterioration (shortness and difficulty breathing, dehydration, signs of shock, or bronchial pneumonia, diagnosed with radiographs or clinically), hospitalization is carried out and given (Tamil) for five days and if not The condition improves, it is given for another 5 days, and a throat and nose swab is taken and sent to examine the influenza in the central laboratories, or to the regional laboratories that examine the flu in the governorates.
The Preventive Medicine Sector confirmed that the dates for obtaining the seasonal influenza vaccine:
With the onset of the winter season.
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