Older population told to fight flu with vaccine, handwashing | Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco

Data from the World Health Organization released in 2018 indicated that influenza alone and influenza related deaths especially pneumonia reached 75,843 or 12.45 percent of total deaths.

“Patients afflicted with flu may have body weakness or feel generalized muscle aches. Frontal headache may be attributed to the nasal congestion or stuffiness that accompanies the disease. Dry cough may be present with throat discomfort noticeably when swallowing liquids or solid foods. Moderate to high grade fever can last for up to five days if there are no complications that accompany the flu.

“A more serious sequelae can be pneumonia which is the inflammation of the lungs because of infection. Viruses aside from influenza, or bacteria commonly Streptococcus, may affect in particular those at the extremes of ages such as the infants or the elderly,” he said adding that a very rare but grave complication of flu usually experienced in children is Reye’s syndrome. The condition is described as a deterioration of the patient’s liver function together with the involvement of the brain.

“It is quite puzzling why parents bring their babies or children to be vaccinated by pediatricians. However, these same parents are the ones who are skeptical in being vaccinated. The Covid -19 pandemic has enlightened us that vaccination is the only way to go in preventing vaccine preventable diseases. It is hoped that greater awareness of the benefits of vaccination will be realized by Filipinos as a result of this pandemic,” he stressed.

“There are some instances when a person may be infected with the influenza and Covid 19 virus simultaneously,” he warned.“What we have are the trivalent and quadrivalent vaccines each giving protection to three and four strains of the virus respectively. A yearly flu vaccine is important regardless whether it is a trivalent or quadrivalent vaccine,” he said.

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