The season for sickness is upon us and, through daycare, Lily is a conduit to the virus du jour. Our house is on the cutting edge of every Cold and Flu.
Normally, this should be a sniffle, a cough and a few days working from the house, but the H1N1 thing does make it scary. News outlets play with the numbers to make it look scary - to create an audience, but the science is pretty clear that pregnancy is significant factor in complications relating to this new influenza epidemic.
http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/H1N1-flu/epidemiology/epidemiology-72.pdf
Treatment for pregnant women has been extremely conservative in approach, since the Thalidomide tragedy of the 1960's, justifiably. It's good to see that medical science is proactively and aggressively looking out for treating pregnant women now. This is a great essay from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/health/views/29essa.html?_r=1
They are promising guidelines for the vaccination and retroviral treatment in the next few weeks. I'll be watching what comes back closely, and relaying my thoughts to Cindy.
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