We've been sick since just after Gavin was born, and although I thought we were weathering it pretty well, Connor took a turn for the worse today so I took him to the dr (we had avoided the dr before now because there's nothing they can do about a flu anyway!). Turns out he has pneumonia 
For him that isn't a huge surprise, he has numerous birth defects in his airway and an immune deficiency, so he almost always gets secondary infections from viral bugs. But we made it past the fever stage of the flu, so I thought we were good to go. Guess not.
But, the dr wrote in the chart "H1N1 with secondary pneumonia". I said "it's too late to test him for flu, and we didn't come in for a test earlier, so why did you write down H1N1?" The dr said "it's a clinical diagnosis, you all have/had classic flu symptoms, and right now that's the strain circulating, so it's safe to assume that's what it was." It doesn't matter as far as treating him, he still needs antibiotics for the pneumonia, but it frustrates me that they're diagnosing him clinically without lab confirmation that it was even flu at all!! There are dozens of "flu-like" bugs circulating, we could have just as easily had one of those.
So anyway...beware of reports of the numbers of H1N1 that you might be reading, ebcause we're one family that was "diagnosed" with no proof.
For him that isn't a huge surprise, he has numerous birth defects in his airway and an immune deficiency, so he almost always gets secondary infections from viral bugs. But we made it past the fever stage of the flu, so I thought we were good to go. Guess not.But, the dr wrote in the chart "H1N1 with secondary pneumonia". I said "it's too late to test him for flu, and we didn't come in for a test earlier, so why did you write down H1N1?" The dr said "it's a clinical diagnosis, you all have/had classic flu symptoms, and right now that's the strain circulating, so it's safe to assume that's what it was." It doesn't matter as far as treating him, he still needs antibiotics for the pneumonia, but it frustrates me that they're diagnosing him clinically without lab confirmation that it was even flu at all!! There are dozens of "flu-like" bugs circulating, we could have just as easily had one of those.
So anyway...beware of reports of the numbers of H1N1 that you might be reading, ebcause we're one family that was "diagnosed" with no proof.
, that if you have the flu now then they will determine that it was h1n1 w/o testing since it's the "only strain that's around at the moment."
