<p>Just saw on the Wake Forest website...
Several students with flu symptoms, 2 confirmed cases of H1N1. Isn't this just a tad early? School just started. Is anyone else encountering cases at their DS/DD's schools?</p>
<p>Never too early for a virus to start making the rounds at a college, especially in the dorms :)</p>
<p>University of Alabama has 54 cases in 2 weeks. My friend blames it on the start of sorority rush and girls not wanting to miss out.</p>
<p>[The</a> Swine Flu Wars: H1N1 Comes to Alabama - TIME](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1919310,00.html]The”>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1919310,00.html)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon had a bunch last week also (26) and Penn State had some too.</p>
<p>[Swine</a> flu hits CMU, PSU](<a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09238/993217-455.stm]Swine”>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09238/993217-455.stm)</p>
<p>284 suspected cases at University of Kansas, they are not closing down, because it is still a small percentage of the total number of students, but they are stepping up notification, prevention efforts, etc.</p>
<p>Isn’t this just a tad early? School just started.
Unlike “normal” flu bugs, this bug does not need cold weather to thrive. And it is affecting those under the age of 24 the most, as they have not developed any kind of immunity, unlike older people who may have been exposed to earlier, similar bugs in the 70’s and 80’s.</p>
<p>Actually UGA and GATECH are both underway and both are reporting the flu. Here in Atlanta, my pediatrician reports that they are already seeing cases of the regular flu as well as H1N1, which is very early for the regular flu.</p>
<p>Apparently in Australia where it is Winter, they are having a horrible flu season. It may be signs of what is to come. :(</p>
<p>It swept through our school district like wildfire: in my ds’ elementary school of 300 children, 90-100 were out daily for a week. </p>
<p>Blessedly, it was a mild flu and 3 out of my 4 children were back on their feet in 2-3 days (my oldest daughter didn’t contract it).</p>
<p>Our laboratory is bracing for the deluge of flu tests that will be pouring in now that schools are back in session. We have barely recovered from the volume of last winter and spring. </p>
<p>Thankfully, it does seem to be mild in most otherwise healthy patients.</p>
<p>My daughter’s school reported several cases last week.</p>
<p>My brother in England had it several weeks ago.</p>
<p>Ugh. I work at a high school in a full-service health center. I know we will be swamped with the Flu when we start next week. </p>
<p>I sent my son to college with a package of Tamiflu. He is sure to be exposed in the dorms.</p>
<p>I was exposed to several patients with positive H1N1/swine flu tests. Didn’t get it. I hope I don’t. I can’t afford to me sick.</p>
<p>Illness went through my house last week but we couldn’t go to the doctor so I’m not sure if it was H1N1. If I have a fever I am not allowed to move in on Tuesday like I am supposed to until I am fever free for 24 hours. Hopefully that doesn’t happen. I will likely get both a regular flu vac and the H1N1 vac when it becomes available.</p>
<p>“I sent my son to college with a package of Tamiflu. He is sure to be exposed in the dorms.”</p>
<p>There’s one parent who actually takes precautions from what I’ve seen. </p>
<p>Anyways, good hygiene is the way to go.</p>
<p>Neighbor’s kid at UNC-Wilmington has the flu and says there is a big outbreak on campus.</p>
<p>^
You should NOT take Tamiflu unless you have the symptoms, and a doctor has told you do so. Doing otherwise raises the speed and probability of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 strain, which could be VERY bad.</p>
<p>My school’s health center has announced they will not be giving anyone tamiflu unless they are high risk (asthmatic, pregnant, etc.), I figured it would be because they were concerned about running out with how many cases they seem to be expecting, but maybe it’s because of the risk of creating a resistant strain.</p>
<p>Jamiecakes, I’m wondering how you could get Tamiflu for your son so that he was able to take it with him? I know that it can be used for treament and for prevention and is administered differently depending upon whether or not the patient has an active case or not [TAMIFLU</a> Dosage Instructions for Influenza Symptoms | TAMIFLU](<a href=“http://www.tamiflu.com/taking/default.aspx]TAMIFLU”>http://www.tamiflu.com/taking/default.aspx) but, regardless, a precription is needed. How in the world did you convince an MD to write an Rx for a kid who has no signs of the flu and hadn’t been exposed to it yet? I’ve heard that there may be a shortage of Tamiflu and if indeed, there are doctors penning Rxs “just in case”, I can see how that shortage could very easily occur. Where does that leave the rest of us and our families?</p>
<p>When my daughter was leaving for summer abroad in France, I asked our family doctor for Tamiflu for her to take with her “just in case” she came down with the H1N1. He refused to prescribe it. I suspect that anyone who is getting it to keep as a standby precaution has a family member with prescribing ability (MD, DO, NP, etc).</p>
<p>You can’t GET Tamiflu without a prescription. </p>
<p>I legally prescribed it for him and if there is swine flu in his dorm I will instruct him how/when to take it. I don’t believe it taking or prescribing medication without a good reason. He has asthma, so if he is exposed to the Flu (either kind) the CDC protocols recommend prophylaxis.</p>
<p>I didn’t want him to have to wait for a visit to the health center, a positive test or depend on the supplies at his school This way he has it if he needs it.</p>
<p>But his own doctor would’ve done it. She’s a friend and understands the concern.</p>
<p>Never, in any thread on CC, have I been this disgusted.
Must be nice… as the old saying goes " Them that has, gets". So, while the government tells us all that there is a shortage of Tamiflu and that, in case of widespread outbreaks, there will not not be enough of that particular med to go around, those that have the “legal” ability to prescribe it are putting it aside for their own family members?? Everyone in my household has asthma and don’t I wish that they could have Tamiflu in their top dresser drawers, “just in case”. They meet the “CDC protocols” too but I don’t have the right credentials to enable them to have the medication. I guarantee that I love my kids just as much as you love your, Jamiecakes, but I think what you have done is wrong, if not outright illegal. In other words, your son has been elevated to a status above that of the children of others who have posted in this thread, simply because you were able to put him there. I’ll bet you had quite a store of Cipro on hand after 9/11 too.
And people wonder why this country is in an “stare-down” with socialized medicine?</p>