swine flu - ?plan

Re: swine flu - ?plan

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:40:41 GMT

My friend has it :(

All her house mates have to stay at home from work until next Thursday. Not good. Well, my mate who lives with her is happy as he's got time off - he never has time off ill so is making the most of it.

She's not very good but not as bad as having flu flu. As in she can move about, says it's like wearing the worlds heaviest hat

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:29:53 GMT

Locum vet nurse available...

edited to avoid tempting fate!!!!!!

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Vicky RVN — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:29:51 GMT

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But Nicky what would happen if one of you were hit by a bus or got appendicitis anything can happen in life.

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True but that only means one person being off...viruses are likely to effect more than one member of staff, esp when working in close proximity of each other.

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:29:43 GMT

But Nicky what would happen if one of you were hit by a bus or got appendicitis anything can happen in life.

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Nicola Smith — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:00:22 GMT

Its not so much its effects but its effects on manpower in a small practice!!

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Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:28:46 GMT

Same as any flu virus...

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Sal the 1st — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:53:59 GMT

for the very young,the very old, or those who are immuno compromised it can be a killer

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Mac Feather — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:35:33 GMT

Pardon my absolute ignorance but how much of a threat is it?

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Nicola Smith — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:58:53 GMT

Well, we had to send out work experience home yesterday after only 4 hours, she was showing signs and the schools round here are full of it!!

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Kerry Spain — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:32:04 GMT

aaaah I can't wait! a few weeks off work... BLISS

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:31:10 GMT

And still catch it from somewone sneezing on the food, or handling the fork or mug that she put into her mouth. A mask is useless after a couple of hours and the holes to large anyhow.

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Mac Feather — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:28:47 GMT

All the woman did was drwa attention to herself and probably freak people out.

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Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:27:30 GMT

I don't understand the point of that because the longer you leave yourself to get the flu the longer it has time to mutate surely you wouldn't want to prolong it and just get it and let your body do all the work like it should. Stay healthy otherwise, eat right and if you get a cold/flu support your immune system with zinc and vitamin C, drink lots of fluids and electrolytes and get lots a rest when you have it and there shouldn't be much worry! Its silly to try to avoid it as everyone is going to get it unless they have a natural immunity to the virus.

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Mac Feather — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:16:04 GMT

I saw a woman in a cafe wearing a face mask but she had to remove it to talk to the staff there and to eat!!!!!!!!!!!!! What was the point of wearing it?!

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Dippy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:00:08 GMT

I wouldn't mind betting that if your clients knew you'd got it in the practice, they'd be staying away from choice anyway. You know what people are like!

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Anonymous — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:44:01 GMT

I would imagine the best plan would be if you get it to go home recover as fast as you can and then return to work. If you try to fight it and continue working it could prolong the illness. Get a locum in or just shut down for a couple of days. Do you have another local vets that could take your emergencies temporaraly? surely your clients would understand if it's quite wide spread. You can't help it !