Video: How to Diagnose Swine Flu Symptoms

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Swine flu symptoms are similar to seasonal influenza, which include fever of more than 100 degrees, cough, muscle aches, headache and stuffy nose. Get help diagnosing swine flu, which can only be confirmed through a blood test, with health information from an epidemiologist in this free video on the swine flu.

Video Transcript

My name is Dr. Paul Kamitsuka. I'm the hospital Epidemiologist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina. The question is how to diagnose swine flu symptoms. It turns out that swine flu, in terms of how it presents, is very similar to seasonal influenza or the flu. So, the cardinal symptoms are fever; generally, temperatures of one hundred degrees Fahrenheit or greater, cough, muscle aches, headache, and some patients may also have stuffy nose or other symptoms such as GI symptoms, although those tend to be less common, especially in adults. So once again, it's the combination of symptoms; fever, aches, headache and cough as the most important ones, with other symptoms like sore throat or GI symptoms being, typically, less common.

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How to Diagnose Swine Flu Symptoms

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