Symptoms of flu

Symptoms of flu
You’ve probably had the flu sometimes in the past and know how it feels from personal experience.

In case you have forgotten the feeling, here are the typical symptoms.

A day or two after exposure to someone with the flu, you feel a bit out of sort for a day.

Then the next day or that night, you are knocked flat with unmistakable muscle aching, chills, a dreadful headache, and dry cough.

You languish in bed, taking painkillers for the headache, drinking fluids and awaiting for the ordeal to end.

In a few days it does. You have lost a few pounds and five days of work.

You feel weak for another four days, then after ten to fourteen days back to normal. If you are lucky.

Some people develop pneumonia, the most common complication of the flu. Since the pneumonia is usually viral, antibiotics are useless.

Sometimes people will recover from the flu and then another high fever develops with typical pneumonia symptoms of coughing, chest tightness, difficulty breathing and weakness.

This secondary infection is often bacterial, Deaths typically occur as a result of pneumonia.
Symptoms of flu