Swine Flu is a hyped media scare, who cares if someone has swine flu. You treat it just like any other flu anyway. Proper treatment will take care of it no problem.

I think people worry way too much about this whole illness.

If the parent came alone, would first ask him what types of precautions he is taking to prevent the spread of the virus. Is he keeping his child isolated from the rest of the family or using face masks to prevent droplets from cough to infect other family members? Is the child covering his cough? Are family members, including the ill child, practicing appropriate hygiene? If he brought his child with him to my house, I would question the safety of this behavior, since he would expose my own family to the H1N1 flu virus. If the child is on medication, likely Tamiflu, he must have seen a doctor in order to have received the prescription. During this time, the doctor would likely advise the parent to limit contact with other individuals (in and outside the family), such as family gatherings, visits to friends, shopping at the supermarket or mall, and other places where many people are present at the same time. The doctor would also recommend to keep the child out of school for approximately 7 days from the onset of the illness. Thus, the parent is acting irresponsibly, first by dragging his ill child to a friend’s house while he is likely feeling miserable (most children with the flu will have a fever and body aches in addition to irritable coughs) and second by exposing his friend and their family to the illness. Simply express your concern to him about your children potentially catching the virus and ask him to return another day when his child is feeling better or has been fever-free for at least 24 hours. It’s in his own child’s best interest to rest and not be exposed to other individuals while he is ill, as well as the interest of others who have not yet caught the virus. For example, what if the ill child becomes exposed to another agent that causes a secondary infection (either bacterial or viral) in his body? Children at most risk for complications from H1N1 have been found to have had two co-occurring infections that resulted in a weakened immune system response, since their bodies were fighting off the H1N1 while trying to fight off another infection as well. In some cases the H1N1 impaired their system enough to allow bacterial infections to take over and invade the lungs or weaken the heart muscle. This is what has killed many healthy young children without underlying health conditions. Maybe you want to tell your friend about how taking his child out while he is recovering from the H1N1 virus could negatively affect the child’s health.

Burn him at the stake!

There is so much hype and then there are people saying it's nothing so, I'm not sure what I would do because I don't know who to believe. I would defintely disinfect things after the person left my house. Then I would call my sons school and tell them that we had possibly been exposed to the swine flu and ask them how we should handle things.

advised to eventually taken to a hospital that can handle the swine flu virus