HealthAtControl.Com » Apraxia http://healthatcontrol.com Keeping best care of your health Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:00:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Complications http://healthatcontrol.com/2008/08/12/complications-2/ http://healthatcontrol.com/2008/08/12/complications-2/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:05:43 +0000 Sam http://healthatcontrol.com/?p=89 Complications
The most common complication is a secondary bacterial chest infection, which develops in addition to the viral infection, is. This can become serious and develop into pneumonia, Occasionally A course of antibiotics will usually cure this, but the infection sometimes becomes life threatening, particularly in the frail and elderly. Other serious complications are uncommon.

Rarely, flu can develop into a high fever, acute bronchitis, encephalitis and pneumonia. The risks for complications and serious illness are higher among the following groups of people:

• Those aged 65 years and older,
• Babies and infants,
• People with other medical conditions (for example, long-term heart, lung or kidney Disease, diabetes, or those with a weakened immune system due to treatment or disease), and
• People living in nursing, residential or other long-stay homes where the spread of the virus is more likely.

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