12/27/2025
Dr Siefferman has his last Saturday Clinic. Call 651-227-7806 after 8:30am to be seen.
With all the family gatherings, we expect to see an increase in Influenza A with high fevers and sore throat then cough and fatigue and often wheezing. Sadly most pharmacies are running out of branded and generic Tamiflu which lessens the severity and shortens the duration of the infection.
Covid has been a bad cold but we are getting secondary infections like sinusitis and ear infection and though there is an anti-viral medication, Paxlovid, it leaves a nasty taste in your mouth for days even when finished and many people can not tolerate it at all.
We have the croup virus - Parainfluenza causing loss of voice and wheezing and we have RSV - Respiratory Syncytial Virus also causing coughs and wheezing in all ages with a high incidence of secondary pneumonia 3 to 5 days into the illness.
Of course, no let up in Strep throat and will often occur in someone ill with any of the above illnesses - so if someone in the family found on a quick home test to be sick with Influenza or Covid, yet they are not getting better then PLEASE be seen.
PYAM is open most of next week including the morning of New Year’s Eve in St Paul only, though all offices are closed on Thursday, January 1.
The Providers and Staff of PYAM, hope you had a Merry Christmas or holidays and hope you have a safe New Year as the Minnesota weather returns to sub-zero wind chills!
