The season of the flu has arrived. Seasonal flu can make you miserable and wish you were dead. To the elderly or infirmed, it can cause death. There are many categories of people who need to get the flu shot. Health care workers. Anyone over 50 years of age. Children between 6 months and 5 [...]
I don’t rely on modern medicine to keep me healthy, but if you usually rely on a flu shot to protect you, you may feel frightened by your inability to get one this year. You may be wondering what you can do instead. Or you may have discovered that flu shots don’t give protection from [...]
It’s time to start thinking about flu shots again. Today’s post is just a short primer on the appropriate CPT and ICD-9 codes utilized in those immunizations.For intranasal mist the code is 90660 with an administration code of 90473. Medicare of Georgia allows $22.031 in the drugs and biologicals but does not approve any payment [...]
The H1N1 virus is unusual in that it is made from genetic material from all three influenza viruses that attack birds, swine, and humans. Most seasonal flu viruses contain only human and avian, or human and swine genes. Eating pork and poultry have nothing to do with getting infected. The last major H1N1 influenza infestation [...]
The concept of budget adventure travel includes a lot of wonderful experiences, but one adventure you definitely do not want to have when you travel is getting sick. Not only are you far from your family doctor or your mother’s trusty chicken soup recipe; the very fact that you are in a foreign locale exposes [...]
The flu is a highly contagious infection caused because of flu viruses. When you suffer with the flu you feel very weak and miserable. Some symptoms of flu are chills, high fever, sore throat, body ache, muscle pain, severe headache, dry cough, stuffy nose, weakness, tiredness, nausea and uneasiness. Still, the truth is that we [...]
It should be relatively easy to find a place for flu shot vaccinations this year, depending on where you live. Local flu shots are offered at a variety of places. In 2003, 83 million doses of flu vaccine were distributed. It is estimated that a similar number of the population were able to find a [...]
Preventing infection is the best defense when fighting flu viruses, especially in light of the recent H1N1 pandemic. Instead of spending several miserable days in bed with the flu, missing school, work, friends and family, and even risking serious medical complications, prevention is the best line of defense against the influenza virus.Once inside the body, [...]
It’s flu season and you feel a little under the weather. Did you know that your horse can get the flu too? That’s right! Just as the flu spreads quickly through groups of people, equine influenza spreads quickly through groups of horses as well! But don’t worry, while your horse may need to lay low [...]
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”HippocratesFlu season is that part of the year in which there is a very high increase in flu cases. This season starts as soon as weather becomes colder. Flu is mainly caused by Influenzavirus A, Influenzavirus B or Influenzavirus C, which are also known as human [...]