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Advice for fighting the flu please? and how do you know if you should visit your dr for meds
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Influenza: If you think you have influenza (high fevers, cough, feeling generally ill), you should call your doc to see if she has test kits. If not call your local er; the rapid flu tests are not worth much (wrong c. 50% of the time), so make sure they can do a DFA or pcr test. Also, try get get in during the first 72 hours, as the meds are most effective then.
Answered 2/2/2015
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