The number of patients with seasonal flu increases

High temperatures, throat pain, coughing, vomiting, and fatigue are some of the symptoms that characterize the seasonal flu, which has also increased the influx of citizens seeking medical help at the Family Medicine Centers in Pristina.

So reported was Pristina's Main Centre of Family Medicine doctor Violet Haxhija, who says that the most people endangered by seasonal flu are children, people over 65, chronic heart disease, lungs, hypertensive, and pregnant women.

“The current state of seasonal flu in Kosovo, we have an increased flow in our centers of patients seeking medical help from flu symptoms. ... The seasonal graph is an acute viral infection caused by the influence virus or the flu virus type A and B, which are more frequent. Seasonal flu symptoms are coughing, fever, connections, sluggishness, joint pain, throat pain, stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea. However, we also have some dangerous symptoms in children, such as if we have difficulty breathing, rashing the skin, stiffening the neck, vomiting, not taking fluids, should immediately be reported to the family doctor”, Haxhiaj said.

Medical doctor Haxhia said that signs of danger for adults from this flu are chest, chest pain, respiratory barriers and confusion, in which she said medical treatment should be taken immediately.

Regarding the supply of the essential drug list, she said it stood well.

“We have the risk signs for adults who are dealing with chest pain, chest pain, respiratory barriers, confusion immediately need to be reported to the family doctor... our most often-inhibited periodical colds we have young children, people over 65, chronically ill people like those with heart disease, lung disease, hypertension, people with weakened immunity, children in five years pregnant... when we have to deal with viruses, the best way to prevent that vaccine is... The list is well filled, if patients have a good supply of flu, if they need to be pregnant in five years, pregnant women... when we're dealing with viruses, but if we're only having to cure symptoms, then we're just saying it's only complicated symptoms.

Haxhiaj added that it is most important to vaccinate the medical staff first, then even citizens, specifically of pregnant women and older persons in order to prevent the seasonal flu virus.

It's good to vaccinate pregnant women, children over six months, older people, chronically ill people, because they're most at risk of this seasonal flu virus. However, those who should not be vaccinated are children under six years of age, people who are allergic to the egg, people who have an allergic reaction to the vaccine component, and those who have an acute fever of over 39 degrees Celsius”, Haxhi said.

Health expert Violet Haxhia shared some advice for citizens to prevent the seasonal flu virus until she said that room ventilation should be done, taking food with vitamin C and doing physical activities.

Meanwhile, for individuals who have already been affected by flu symptoms, the doctor advised that they stay at home, make the ventilation of the room, and cough or sneezing carefully so that the virus does not spread. /kp/