Many Healthy Children Died from the Flu

Webpostline.com - A new study finds, during the last decade, many children who tragically died from the flu, previously they were healthy children without chronic medical conditions.

Found total 830 U.S. children died from the flu since 2004 until 2012. And more than 40 percent of that number, they do not have medical conditions that would make them at high risk for flu complications.

More surprisingly, the children who were previously healthy nearly two times more likely to die of the flu before they were hospitalized compared to children who have high-risk medical conditions and stricken with the flu.

The researchers said that the results of the study revealed the fact that all children, regardless of age or medical condition, all that can be potentially developed complications from the flu.

Therefore, the experts stressed the importance of flu vaccination for all children aged 6 months and older. About 511 children who died, found 16 percent had received flu shots.

Researchers say that for children aged less than 2 years old and is suffering from a severe illness resulting from the flu, so they had to be admitted to hospital, preferably as soon as possible given the treatment with antiviral drugs.

During the study, flu season that many claimed the lives of kids was 2009 to 2010, about 282 children died. While the mildest flu season was 2011-2012, in which only 35 child deaths occur. Therefore, for children who are susceptible to high risk medical conditions. It is recommended to receive a flu shot before flu season begins.

The researchers have yet to get a clear cause of the findings, why children who were previously healthy can be at greater risk of death.