Symptoms listed:
These can include:
High fever
Fatigue
Severe body aches
Sore throat
Chills
Runny or congested nose
Vomiting or diarrhea
While seemingly similar to flus of previous years, experts note a disturbing difference.
“Symptoms that are very intense, they come on really, really rapidly,” Dr. Kravitz added. “It’s very contagious, so it is spreading quickly through communities.”
“Runny or congested nose
Vomiting or diarrhea”
Not normal flu symptoms.
Imagine that.
Every single time as a kid that I got the flu, the symptoms came on very, very rapidly and were very, very intense.
I sported fevers so high that I thrashed and screamed—when I wasn’t lying on the floor after puking up my socks—and my mom spent all night trying to keep me cooled down. And praying over me.
Because of what I just told y’all, I remember almost every instance that I had the flu in my childhood and teen years. It was that traumatic.