Question about H1N1

thinkerbell

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What are the chances of living with someone who has the H1N1 flu and not getting it? If any of you have had it or had family members with it, did you get it or did your family members get it? My husband has it and I REALLY can't be out of work. I am a teacher and it is so hard to get together plans for a sub. I can't imagine doing it while I was as sick as he is right now. I DON'T get sick. I have never even had the regular flu. Please tell me there is hope!!!
 
My DS11 just went back to school today after being diagnosed on Wednesday with it. He started showing symptoms Tuesday night. No one else has gotten it yet. I don't know how long the incubation period is, but Friday I was supposed to give platelets and they asked me to wait until tomorrow because of his illness. Good luck, and I hope your DH is feeling better soon.
 
My DD8 got it in June. I felt a little off for the following week and a little out of breath, but didn't get a fever or cough so I'm not really sure if I had it or not. DD10 and DH didn't get it at all.

However, my DD8 was on tamiflu within 2 hours of spiking the fever (it was going around her school so we knew what it was right away). This might have helped us from getting it...
 

If you remember when this all started, the first guy in Mexico who died "from" it (though his "treatment" was an antibiotic shot per the news articles at that time, and he had to travel a long way each way by bus, so I'm thinkin' the flu isn't what did him in, not entirely)...his wife never got it.

As with any illness, it's easy for some people to get it and others not to. Heck, way back when, one of my great aunts got diphtheria. She had 6 sisters, all at home. She was the ONLY one in the family who got it. And thanks to my great-grandfather's care, she came out of it just fine...though since he had to stay up with her all night and all day, sweeping clear the membranes that grew in her throat (that's how diphtheria gets you...I have seen it referred to as "the strangler", obviously by people not willing to do what my great grandfather did), he was likely a mess once she was better.

Bugs affect different bodies differently!


In fact, since you're a teacher...I'd say YOU brought it home to HIM! That's what my hubby does...I'll get sick and he'll say "oh, so and so had that the other day, he was sneezing all over the place, I told him to go home when he was working with me in my cubicle"...thanks hubby! He's typhoid mary in our house; brings home everything and gets almost nothing. :headache:
 
OK, this is making me feel much better. I don't always get everything he does--actually hardly ever. I was just afraid this might be even more contagious than most things with all of the hype in the news about it. I'll stop panicking and thinking everything that aches or every cough means I have it.

In fact, since you're a teacher...I'd say YOU brought it home to HIM! That's what my hubby does...I'll get sick and he'll say "oh, so and so had that the other day, he was sneezing all over the place, I told him to go home when he was working with me in my cubicle"...thanks hubby! He's typhoid mary in our house; brings home everything and gets almost nothing.

Bumbershoot--I would think that too but we work in the same school. Doesn't mean I didn't pass it to him though. He usually catches everything coming and going but as far as we know he is the first one in the school to have it.
 
Yeah, I lived with a teacher for a few years -- I caught every thing in the BOOK! In the long run it was probably good for my immune system, but boy those schools are petri dishes.
 
My dd had it in June. I had had it the week before her but noone else in the family got it(DH, 2 other kids)
 
In our situation, it was back in the spring when ds 13 got it. There are 6 of us in a tiny house, ds is horrible about covering properly when he sneezes so I thought sure we were all doomed to get it but not one of us got it!

What are the chances of living with someone who has the H1N1 flu and not getting it? If any of you have had it or had family members with it, did you get it or did your family members get it? My husband has it and I REALLY can't be out of work. I am a teacher and it is so hard to get together plans for a sub. I can't imagine doing it while I was as sick as he is right now. I DON'T get sick. I have never even had the regular flu. Please tell me there is hope!!!
 
a couple of friends here had one child dx with it and no one else in the household get sick. It doesn't seem to be as contagious and the news says.
 
I'm on day 5 - DH is fine. I try not to breathe on him, he washes his hands a lot.
 
My cousin had it. He lives with 5 other people including 80 year old grandparents. None of them got it.
 
my boyfirends 2 daughters got it and he didnt get it well he does not live with them but he did go and visit nor hs ex wife got it
 
What are the chances of living with someone who has the H1N1 flu and not getting it? If any of you have had it or had family members with it, did you get it or did your family members get it? My husband has it and I REALLY can't be out of work. I am a teacher and it is so hard to get together plans for a sub. I can't imagine doing it while I was as sick as he is right now. I DON'T get sick. I have never even had the regular flu. Please tell me there is hope!!!
If your husband practices good cough management and you keep your hands sanitized and away from your face, you'll likely be fine. You might want to sleep in the guest room for a few days.
 



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