Seeking medical advice
Customers with flu should be advised to seek medical advice if they:
- Are worried about their baby or child’s symptoms
- Are aged 65 or over
- Are pregnant
- Have a long-term medical condition such as diabetes, heart disease, lung, kidney or neurological disease
- Have a weakened immune system as a result of chemotherapy or HIV
- Have symptoms that don’t show any signs of improvement after seven days
It’s really important that customers should be advised to seek urgent medical advice if they:
- Develop sudden chest pain
- Have difficulty breathing
- Start coughing up blood