Flu Facts and Treatment

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When to Seek Urgent Medical Attention

  • High or prolonged fever

  • Fast breathing or trouble breathing

  • Bluish skin color

  • Not drinking enough fluids

  • Changes in mental status, such as not waking up or not interacting; being so irritable that the child does not want to be held; or seizures
  • Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
  • Worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions (for example, heart or lung disease, diabetes)

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