Best Swine Flu Treatment - Will a Swine Flu Treatment Be Enough to Stem the Tide?
Countries like the United States are scrambling to prepare for what they believe could turn out to be a swine flu pandemic this fall.
Stock piles of a new untested H1N1 vaccine are being horded as we speak but will there be enough to go around, will it even work, and what will we do if it doesn't? The best swine flu treatment according to the W.
H.
O.
(World Health Organization) is Tamiflu (Oseltamivir).
Tamiflu works by stopping the spread of the flu virus inside the body.
The W.
H.
O.
is recommending all countries limit Tamiflu prescriptions to treat only those with underlying "at risk" conditions such as breathing difficulties, HIV, and severe weakness.
Young people, pregnant women, and the elderly should make the cut as well.
That leaves a good portion of the population "undetermined" as far as whether Tamiflu will be available by prescription.
There's no doubt that if swine flu hits the United States as feared this fall supply and demand will dominate the distribution of Tamiflu leaving the 26 to 45 year old segment of the population without "official" access to the best treatment for swine flu available.
The only county with no restrictions on Tamiflu distribution the United Kingdom, is coming under fire for their "free wheeling" distribution policies.
Britain has the largest stockpile in the world and has set up a call center distribution network for any citizen with a confirmed case of H1N1.
In it's first 2 weeks of operation the call center handed out 511,000 courses of the drug.
If the numbers in the U.
K.
at all indicate what we will face in the coming months you don't need to stretch the imagination to envision the virus in a country like the U.
S.
where Tamiflu will be restricted.
Stock piles of a new untested H1N1 vaccine are being horded as we speak but will there be enough to go around, will it even work, and what will we do if it doesn't? The best swine flu treatment according to the W.
H.
O.
(World Health Organization) is Tamiflu (Oseltamivir).
Tamiflu works by stopping the spread of the flu virus inside the body.
The W.
H.
O.
is recommending all countries limit Tamiflu prescriptions to treat only those with underlying "at risk" conditions such as breathing difficulties, HIV, and severe weakness.
Young people, pregnant women, and the elderly should make the cut as well.
That leaves a good portion of the population "undetermined" as far as whether Tamiflu will be available by prescription.
There's no doubt that if swine flu hits the United States as feared this fall supply and demand will dominate the distribution of Tamiflu leaving the 26 to 45 year old segment of the population without "official" access to the best treatment for swine flu available.
The only county with no restrictions on Tamiflu distribution the United Kingdom, is coming under fire for their "free wheeling" distribution policies.
Britain has the largest stockpile in the world and has set up a call center distribution network for any citizen with a confirmed case of H1N1.
In it's first 2 weeks of operation the call center handed out 511,000 courses of the drug.
If the numbers in the U.
K.
at all indicate what we will face in the coming months you don't need to stretch the imagination to envision the virus in a country like the U.
S.
where Tamiflu will be restricted.