It only takes the winter season to usher in an array of
illnesses in the pediatrician's office. As you know, we have
seen cases of seasonal flu across the country . To review again,
flu like symptoms for all influenza strains are typically
similar with fever, sore throat, cough, congestion, headaches
and body aches. Occasionally there may be some nausea or
vomiting but that is not seen as often. Flu like symptoms seem
to begin with general malaise and then develop over the next
12-24 hours and you just feel miserable. Some of the confusion
now is about sore throats and the difference between a sore
throat with the flu, which is due to a viral infection, and
strep throat, which is a bacterial infection. As for most things
in life, nothing is 100 percent and the same goes for viral and
bacterial sore throats. But, with that being said, there are
certain things that might make a parent think more about a viral
sore throat than strep throat and vice versa. Viral sore
throats, which we are seeing a ton of with the