Influenza A(H1N1) cases yesterday shot pass the 2,000 mark, while the fatality count stayed at seven.
The 231 new confirmed cases reported yesterday brought the overall figure to 2,076, of which all have been treated except for 33 patients who remain hospitalised.
Phaijit Warachit, deputy permanent secretary of the Public Health Ministry, warned people with flu symptoms against taking aspirin, which could possibly lead to Reye's syndrome - a potentially fatal disease that can harm the brain and liver.
Instead, the drug paracetamol was advised.
Another first aid technique is to reduce body temperature by wettowelling patients in a direction toward their heart, or behind their body joints.
All of the 800plus government hospitals are set to establish a special mechanism to admit people with flu symptoms - through a quicker process separated from other patients to minimise exposure to other people.
Special isolation rooms would also be needed for people with flu symptoms in hospitals that can afford to arrange them.
A medical team of experts in the treatment of respiratory diseases has been put on standby around the clock to advise both state and private hospitals across the country.
Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai visited to all four provinces in the East while his deputy Manit Nopamornbodi toured Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon and Ratchaburi to promote the ministry's campaign to "Eat hot, use the middle spoons and keep your hands clean".
Manit called on youths to stay home during the fiveday weekend rather than go to video game shops, tutorial schools and other crowded places.
He visited a team of doctors at Ratchaburi General Hospital who treated a person who became the country's seventh death due to the flu. One of the doctors has had the flu for three days and is now held in quarantine for special treatment.
In Chachoengsao, a 18yearold man died of lung complications after falling sick for four days. His symptoms included high fever and high body temperature before he started coughing up blood.
Suthin Thongloh was admitted on Friday and pronounced dead yesterday afternoon. The results of his lab tests and autopsy will be available soon.
In Yala, a patient with the disease was recovering at the provincial general hospital. There is no other reported case in this southern province, said Dr Sawas Aphiwajjaneewong, chief of the provincial public health office.
Source: The Nation
Phaijit Warachit, deputy permanent secretary of the Public Health Ministry, warned people with flu symptoms against taking aspirin, which could possibly lead to Reye's syndrome - a potentially fatal disease that can harm the brain and liver.
Instead, the drug paracetamol was advised.
Another first aid technique is to reduce body temperature by wettowelling patients in a direction toward their heart, or behind their body joints.
All of the 800plus government hospitals are set to establish a special mechanism to admit people with flu symptoms - through a quicker process separated from other patients to minimise exposure to other people.
Special isolation rooms would also be needed for people with flu symptoms in hospitals that can afford to arrange them.
A medical team of experts in the treatment of respiratory diseases has been put on standby around the clock to advise both state and private hospitals across the country.
Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai visited to all four provinces in the East while his deputy Manit Nopamornbodi toured Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon and Ratchaburi to promote the ministry's campaign to "Eat hot, use the middle spoons and keep your hands clean".
Manit called on youths to stay home during the fiveday weekend rather than go to video game shops, tutorial schools and other crowded places.
He visited a team of doctors at Ratchaburi General Hospital who treated a person who became the country's seventh death due to the flu. One of the doctors has had the flu for three days and is now held in quarantine for special treatment.
In Chachoengsao, a 18yearold man died of lung complications after falling sick for four days. His symptoms included high fever and high body temperature before he started coughing up blood.
Suthin Thongloh was admitted on Friday and pronounced dead yesterday afternoon. The results of his lab tests and autopsy will be available soon.
In Yala, a patient with the disease was recovering at the provincial general hospital. There is no other reported case in this southern province, said Dr Sawas Aphiwajjaneewong, chief of the provincial public health office.
Source: The Nation
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