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What's Going Around: October 22


Last Update: 10/22/2008 7:37 pm
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If someone in your family has asthma, chances are they haven't been feeling well this week. Let's start our weekly check of doctors offices.

At the emergency room at University Hospital where children and adults are having more asthma attacks and there have been quite a few cases of pneumonia in adults.

In Camillus, Doctor Rovall says the kids with asthma are being hit hard by the colds that are going around. Even kids who don't have asthma are suffering with ear pain along with those colds.

In Liverpool, Dr. Dracker is also seeing lots of asthmatic kids in the office this week. He says colds and coughs are the big thing and the cough is hanging on for as long as two weeks. The stomach bug is going around in young children and kids of all ages are coming in with sore throats, but they're viral, not strep.

The urgent care in Fayetteville is seeing the stomach bug in young children and adults and mononucleosis is also going around in teenagers.
In Auburn, Dr. Grany's office is seeing viral sore throats, colds and coughs and the stomach bug and at North Medical Urgent Care in Liverpool, they're seeing pneumonia and the stomach bug.

Strep throat is going around to the south of Syracuse, where Brighton Pediatrics is also seeing kids with earaches and a fever.




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