In the last few years, every winter, we hear announcements of dangerous swine flu, which is very hard and can lead to fatalities. This disease is really dangerous, but if found at an early stage it can easily be cured. Help in timely diagnosis can a number of special tests for influenza H1N1. Since every day the problem becomes only more urgent, almost all research laboratories offer the service for the diagnosis of swine flu.
What tests show the H1N1 flu?
This disease can affect swine, some species of birds and humans. Like other types of influenza, H1N1 is transmitted by airborne droplets. Complicating all the fact that the ailment, among other things, can be transmitted from animals to humans.
How the disease will proceed is determined by various factors:
- state of immunity ;
- age;
- presence of concomitant diagnoses.
These same factors affect the selection of effective therapy. Only before the beginning of treatment, it is necessary to make sure of the correctness of the diagnosis and to undergo a number of important examinations.
Usually the analysis for the H1N1 influenza virus is taken as a smear from the throat and nose. The most useful information about the material obtained is given by PCR or immunofluorescence methods. In order for the treatment to begin on time, the analysis of the results of the analysis will be issued the next day.
Some specialists send patients for analysis, which determines in the blood antibodies to the H1N1 flu. This is not entirely correct. Such a study is important, but not in the early days of the disease. All because antibodies to the virus begin to be produced by the body only after two to three days after infection. Accordingly, until then the analysis will remain negative, while the disease will continue to actively develop.