Flu-like illness

HUMIDIFIER FEVER A flu-like illness caused by inhalation of fine droplets of water from humidifiers that have become contaminated. 

Muscle pains, transient flu-like illness, redness or swelling at injection site, black-box warning for rare osteonecrosis of the jaw... 

Do nol disconfinue abrupfly after long-ferm use wifhdrawal syndrome (seizures, anxiefy, insomnia, nausea, vomifing, flu-like illness, confusion, hallucinations, memory impairment) can occur... 

Prolonged granulocytopenia due to olanzapine occurred in a 39-year-old woman after clozapine withdrawal (217). In contrast, two patients with severe clozapine-induced granulocytopenia and agranulocytosis were successfully treated with olanzapine in a dose greater than 25 mg/ day (218). Furthermore, a 65-year-old man who had previously developed leukopenia and neutropenia, first with clozapine and then also with risperidone, took olanzapine (20 mg/day for 2 years with only a transient reduction in leukocyte and neutrophil (but not erythrocyte or platelet) counts) during a flu-like illness (219). 

Dengue is a mosquito-borne infection that, in recent years, has become a major international public health concern. Dengue fever is a severe, flu-like illness that affects infants, young children, and adults but rarely causes death. Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a potentially lethal complication and is today a leading cause of childhood death in several Asian countries. 

A flu-like illness is the most common adverse effect of interferon beta. In an open, randomized study of the effects of paracetamol 1 g or ibuprofen 400 mg before and 6 hours after interferon beta injection on interferon beta-induced flu-like symptoms in 104 patients, the two drugs were equally effective (11). 

LYMErix safety data reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from 21 December 1998 to 31 October 2000 mentioned reports of adverse events associated with Lyme vaccine in prelicensure trials, including injection site reactions, transient arthralgia and myalgia within 30 days of vaccination, fever, and a flu-like illness (7). Allergic reactions were reported to the VAERS and some could have plausibly been linked to the vaccine because of the short latency between vaccination and reaction onset. No clear patterns in age, sex, time to onset, or vaccine dose were identified, although the unexpected predominance of reports of arthrosis in men might warrant further consideration. 

A flu-like illness, with fever, headache, malaise, and bone pain, can occur shortly after the administration of rifampicin, and was observed in a man who had taken rifampicin 600 mg monthly for multibacillary leprosy (10). However, the reaction usually occurs with higher doses given weekly or twice weekly. The usual procedure is to reduce the dose or increase the frequency of treatment. Antipyretic drugs can be used to provide symptomatic relief. 

Shock and a flu-like illness (fever, chills, and myalgia) have been observed most often in patients taking intermittent rifampicin, dosages over 1000 mg/day, or on restarting treatment (1,15). Shock and cerebral infarction have been reported in an HIV-positive patient after reexposure to rifampicin (16). 

Respiratory symptoms from rifampicin are very rare. They can be part of a flu-like illness with bronchial obstruction (18,19). 

There is no evidence that rifampicin causes clinically significant deleterious effects on the immune system in humans (78), whereas it can cause immunosuppression in animals (79). Rifampicin partially suppresses cutaneous hypersensitivity to tuberculin and T cell function (80). In 33 patients with leprosy treated with a rifampicin drug combination, a flu-like illness or antibodies to rifampicin-conjugated proteins were not observed (81). 

Acetylcholinesterase inhibition caused by azinphos-methyl can persist for a long time (2-6 weeks). Repeated chronic exposure may therefore result in prolonged acetylcholinesterase inhibition that may lead to flu-like illnesses. 

Patients with CFS often react to chemical exposures in a similar manner to those with MCS. Though, as discussed earlier, the initial onset of CFS is widely believed to be preceded by a viral infection or flu-like illness, CFS cases have been reported, however, following chronic and acute exposures to chemicals. These are ... 

CFS was reported in 10 farmers in the United Kingdom as a delayed reaction following chronic low-dose exposure to organo-phosphates, including malathionJ54 The onset of CFS symptoms in all except one was preceded by a flu-like illness. In the tenth, CFS was preceded by cholecystitis. Due to this, it is not clear whether the pesticide exposures alone were the CFS causative agents in this study. 

If health officials fail to detect the release until people start becoming ill, physicians should instruct their patients to begin a fever watch. Those who develop an unexplained fever or flu-like illness within 14 days of exposure should begin treatment as outlined in Tables 2.15 and 2.16, depending on whether the outbreak involves a contained or mass casualty scenario. Patients with tularemia do not require isolation, and close contacts of cases do not require prophylaxis because person-to-person transmission does not occur (43). 

Malaria is a serious disease whose progression may lead to death. Its symptoms of high fever, chills, weakened joints, and flu-like illness are however well recognised by people in malaria endemic areas such as Kenya. Illness and death from malaria are largely preventable. Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites which are transmitted by mosquito vector. The most common parasite in Kenya, which is also the most virulent, is Plasmodium falciparum-, the others are P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariae. The main mosquito vector in Africa and which, unfortunately, is also the most efficient is Anopheles gambiae. 

The disease-jump process from animal to human is called escape from restriction, and it happens all the time (and between animals too). In the UK foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, a human was infected. In 1988, a person became ill with swine influenza virus (swine flu) and died after visiting the display area of the pig barn at a US county fair. Three healthcare personnel treating the patient also developed flu-like illness with laboratory evidence of swine influenza virus infection. 

A 41-ycar-old labourer was admitted to hospital. He had collapsed and gave a four-day history of flu-like illness, with shivering, myalgia, headaches, dyspnoea, vomiting and diarrhoea. 

ACUTE HEALTH RISKS may cause irritation to nasal passages irritation to respiratory tract flu-like illness (metal fume fever) may be caused by exposure to freshly formed fumes symptoms of metal fume fever include headache, cough, sweating, chills, fever, aching muscles, nausea, and dryness in mouth and throat may cause rapid bowel evacuation. 

ACUTE HEALTH RISKS flu-like illness called metal fume fever metallic taste in mouth headache aches chills fever cough shortness of breath chest pains nausea vomiting weakness tiredness drying and irritation of the throat low back pain muscle cramps blurred vision reversible reduction in pulmonary vital capacity. 

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