When Do I Need to Seek Medical Help?

... your child is less than two OR  your child has a certain chronic disease. Your child may benefit from Tamiflu, a perscription anti-viral medicine that may help reduce complications when used during the first 1 to 2 days of symptoms. The chronic diseases that may benefit from Tamiflu include chronic lung disease, asthma, cerebral palsy, diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, cancer and HIV;

OR

... your child experiences these signs of flu complications:

fast or troubled breathing,
severe or persistent vomiting,
not drinking well, urinating much less,
extreme irritability,
sleeping too much, or not waking easily to drink, or
a recurrence of fever after it has been absent for a day (for example if your child had a temp of 101 for several days which resolved, and then develops a fever again a day or more later.)

If your child falls into one of these high-risk groups or you think your child has another illness that places your child at high risk of flu complications, please call us at (413) 536-2393.

Other Rescources:
Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention    

H1N1 - Important Information

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