Learn about treating and preventing the flu in your children.
Swine influenza or swine flu is a type of flu that normally only affects pigs. Recently, human swine flu cases have been reported in California and Texas.
Get updates, activity reports, and the latest recommendations about this year's flu season.
Understanding what typical flu symptoms are in children can help you figure out if your child is sick with the flu and they can include a sudden onset of high fever, muscle aches, tiredness, headache, cough, sore throat, and runny nose.
Whether or not you got a flu shot, since it isn't 100% effective, you should follow these steps to help prevent you and your family from getting sick with the flu.
A weekly Influenza Surveillance report prepared by the Influenza Division of the CDC.
Do you have the flu or just a simple cold? Take our cold vs. flu screening quiz to find out.
Tamiflu is a prescription antiviral medication that can be used to treat and prevent influenza infections (the flu) in children and adults, if their symptoms have started within the last day or two before starting to take Tamiflu.
Although its use is somewhat controversial, mainly because it is only supposed to decrease flu symptoms by a day and high rates of its use have raised concerns that it may lead to flu virus strains that become resistant to flu medications, it does seem to help many children with the flu. Review how Tamiflu is used and learn about possible side effects.
Typically, parents are told to just treat the symptoms of a cold or the flu and make their child comfortable, because these common infections are caused by viruses and there are no treatments. While symptomatic treatments are important to help your child feel better, this is not totally true anymore. There are many medications available now to help treat the flu.
Advice for parents on how flu spreads and protecting their young children from the flu.
Since many parents have had trouble getting their kids their flu vaccine the last few years, now can be a good time to start preparing for this year's flu season and figure out where you are going to get their flu shot. Also, learn about the new recommendations for this year's flu season and when your child should get their flu vaccine.
Review the new CDC guidelines of who is considered high risk or in a priority group and should get a flu shot this year, even with the flu shot shortages.
Are you ready for this year's flu season? Take our Flu and Flu Shot Quiz to see if you know everything you should to keep your family safe from the flu.
Why is there a shortage of flu shots for children who are 3 years to 9 years old? I have a 4 year old with asthma. I've contacted my pediatrician, but they have no answer... What are the drug companies saying?
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently alerted pediatricians and parents 'that there will be a delay in getting flu shots for children 6 months of age through age 3 until at least November.'
Stay up to date on this year's flu season, including learning about flu shots, flu activity reports, and tamiflu, which some people are stockpiling because they think it will help them if there is a bird flu outbreak.
Summer is just ending and kids are barely back in school, but it is time to start thinking about cold and flu season already, including planning on where to get your flu shot.
How to prevent children's flu at home and school.
Review the reason for this year's flu shot shortage and what you can do about it to make sure you get a flu vaccine if you or your child is in a high risk or priority group.
Flu resources, articles, and alerts to help you keep yourself and your kids healthy during the 2004 to 2005 flu season.
An update on the this year's flu season, including information about flu vaccines, flu shots, flu activity, and any possible vaccine shortages caused by the Chiron situation and loss of flu shots.
Stay up to date with regular reports on what is happening during this year's flu season.
Last years flu season had several highlights. Learn to protect your child from the flu by reviewing what happened during last year's flu season.
Flu resources, articles, and alerts to help you keep yourself and your kids healthy during the 2004 to 2005 flu season.
Learn more about flu shots, including whether or not this year's shot will protect you from getting sick, how long it takes for a flu shot to work, and if you can get sick even if you get a flu shot.
Get help getting ready for the coming flu season.
Weekly updates on flu activity in the United States. Useful to see if the flu is active in your community.
Explore flu trends across the U.S., including state-by-state graphs showing flu activity for the current flu season.
