H1N1 Treatment

Basic Treatments for Swine Flu

Center for disease control and prevention has recommended Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and Zanamivir (Relenza) as an antiviral drug for treating swine flu.

But most of the people who have been infected by the swine flu seem to be fully recovered without the use of any antiviral drugs some even without any medical help. But use these antiviral drugs against swine flu virus makes the symptom of flu milder and helps the patient to recover very fast under the medical conditions. At the same time antiviral drugs helps to prevent serious complication of swine flu. So antiviral drugs are very important for the people are vulnerable to the effects of the influenza.

Work of antiviral drugs

The swine flu virus enters the living cell and starts producing a protein neuramindase. This protein makes the virus to escape the cell in the body. Antiviral drugs blogs these protein and prevent the virus from spreading from one cell to the other.

About Tamiflu

Tamiflu has been produced by Roche Pharmaceuticals which currently holds the license for it. Roche is the only manufacturer of Tamiflu. It is manufactured as 75mg oral tablet. Tamiflu is restricted to the global supply because of its complexity and difficulty in the nature of production.

The tablet can be taken only under the supervision of a doctor of a health specialist.

People at high risk group should be given the antiviral drugs as soon as they experience the flu symptoms. High risk group people include pregnant women, children below the age of 2 and people suffering from chronic diseases. People who does not belong the high risk group can be treated with the antivirals if they find the symptoms to be worsening or persistent.

People who are suffering from pneumonia should be given the antivirals and antibiotics. Antivirals if taken within 48 hours from the start of symptoms have been found to have useful effects.