Recognizing the early days of February 2025 at the Department of Tropical Diseases, Thai Nguyen Central Hospital, the number of patients with influenza accounted for more than half of the total number of hospitalized people. Among them are mostly seasonal flu (also known as influenza A).
Mr. Duong Van Toan (Dai Tu District, Thai Nguyen) said that from 5.2, he saw the pain, with a lot of cough and fever in the afternoon, the family gave the medicine but did not help.
"I am subjective, thinking that I have a common flu, so I bought medicine for myself. Many ", Mr. Toan said.
About 2 months ago, Thai Nguyen Central Hospital has received more than 80 influenza patients. After Tet, the number of hospitalized patients increased sharply, mainly elderly people over 65 years old and people with background diseases, such as chronic kidneys, heart, chronic obstructive pulmonary, immunodeficiency patients.
Doctor Nguyen Thi Mai Huyen - Deputy Head of Tropical Diseases Department (Thai Nguyen Central Hospital) said that among the patients treated at the department, only one case has a severe case of myocarditis on the background of the patient. Heart, chronic lung disease, diabetes, and the family is taken home. The rest of the patients are treated.
For healthy people, when suffering from mild influenza, it can go away after 1 week. However, doctors also recommend that people are absolutely not subjective, especially those with background illnesses, elderly people, pregnant women and young children need to visit promptly to take measures rule
In Tuyen Quang province, only at the provincial General Hospital in the past 3 months, this health facility has received more than 90 cases of influenza A, most of them are elderly and young children. After supporting the active treatment, most patients were discharged after 5-7 days.
According to a report of the Tuyen Quang Disease Control Center, in January, January 2025, the locality recorded 736 cases of influenza A. The number of patients tended to increase compared to the same time every year.
Facing the complicated developments of the Influenza of Health Department of Tuyen Quang province, there was a written request to medical examination and treatment facilities in the province to implement activities to strengthen supervision to detect early cases to visit medical examination. Suspected the disease is at risk of epidemic.
Mr. La Dang Tai - Deputy Director of the Department of Health of Tuyen Quang province said that the local health sector especially recommends to people the measures to prevent influenza A being complicated.
"Note to keep warm, improve resistance for the elderly, young children, people with cardiovascular disease. When the flu shows signs of high fever, they need to go to the hospital immediately. Wearing a mask to go out and should vaccinate once a year, "he re -recommended.
In Vietnam, influenza A often appears in the winter -spring period with a climate, humid, is a favorable environment for the virus to spread in the community. This is also the reason why the number of patients increased after the Lunar New Year 2025.
