Reaching Your Pediatrician's Office
During Flu Season
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Seek emergency medical care if your child becomes ill and experiences any of the following warning signs:

• Fast breathing
• Trouble breathing
• Bluish or gray skin color
• Not drinking enough fluids
• Not urinating as much as usual
• Severe or persistent vomiting
• Not waking up or interacting as usual
• Being so irritable that your child does not even want to be held
• Fever returns after being absent for a day, or a significant change in fever pattern occurs. For example, it was 101 degrees Fahrenheit for several days and now it’s 103 degrees.

Again, seek emergency medical care if your child becomes ill and experiences any of these warning signs.

It’s important that your child not be exposed to other children who are sick, and that if your child has a flu-like illness that he or she does not expose other people, in order to keep from spreading illness.

There are some things you can do to keep you and your child healthy:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
• If you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve, not your hands.  Put your used tissue in the waste basket.
• Wash hands often with soap and water, especially after coughing or sneezing. If soap and water aren’t available, use an alcohol-based hand cleaner.
• Avoid close contact with sick people.

If you or your child gets sick with a flu-like illness, stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.  Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. Germs spread this way.

If you’d like more information about flu, please visit the CDC website at 
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/

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