Flu season is here, sometimes it doesn’t pay to be sick 🤧🤒
How do you keep yourself from being infected by the flu/headchest cold Or preventables like vitims and foods or anything to keep your immune system to reject or clear it up
Flu Season / Preventables and Ways to Keep It Away
123NVY on 17/05/2019 - 19:32
Last edited 20/05/2019 - 13:59 by 1 other user
Last edited 20/05/2019 - 13:59 by 1 other user
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Flu vaccination, vitamin C and immunoforce supplement.
Stay home alone. Nothing can beat that.
…alone would beat that….
Chew clove of garlic daily.
Yeah you be doing more than fend off the flu with that. You be fending off the rest of society from your garlic breath.
I'll be safe with ihbh when the vampire invasion begins.
Cant catch flu if you're already dead. 100% works can tell by experience.
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Nothing other than wearing warm autumn clothes.
For those who get offered flu shots for free at work. I always suggest to take it up.
Wear a face mask to protect yourself from other peoples uncovered sneezes and coughs.
People always say Vitamin C but research has shown Zinc to be more effective. So take both.
As the vitamin C research honed in on groups that it's most effective for, it turns out athletes/people with high levels of exertion benefit best. (And now that's happened, there'll probably be even more research in the sports medicine applications).
I used to get the full box and dice illness maybe 5 times a year. Throat, sinus, cough, very sore, the lot. In August 2015 I had a particularly nasty episode that left me coughing for nearly two months. Since then I've had a flu vaccination in April every year and I no longer get sick. Absolutely nothing for the past three years. I have no idea why I ignored getting a flu vaccination for so long. It's just $13.
Armaforce, sinus rinses, wearing a face mask and washing your hands as often as possible.
Flu and Cold virus are 'rhinovirus' which means they infect us via the nasal passages, either by touching the nose or corner of the eye with a virus laden finger.
The best way to avoid the flu is to avoid touching your face!
We pick up the virus by touching items that have been touched by an infected person - door handles, ATM buttons, supermarket trolley handles, money, etc, etc. Therefore washing your hands after being out in public is the first thing that you should do when you get home. Of course by that time you have already covered your keys, door handle, tap, etc with the virus!
So not touching your face with your hands is how avoid the virus, always use a tissue or clean handkerchief :)
I take either Fusion Health Cold & Flu tablets or Oriental or Oriental Botanicals Bactevir (meant to be taken at the first signs of getting sick or if you know you've been exposed to someone else close to you who is getting/is already sick). I have taken them as needed and haven't had a cold or flu for the last three years even though everyone around me has gone down. Not a fan of the flu shot due to an adverse reaction when younger and these supplements have been equally - if not more - effective anyway (there are so many strains of the flu and the vaccination in no way covers all of them).
It is estimated that about one third of Australians suffer from non-allergic rhinitis.
This causes cold/flu like symptoms which can be very debilitating, but the triggers are often unknown.My own trigger is the sudden change of temperature from hot to cold, either during the seasons or going in and pout of air conditioning in the summer.
Many people also have this condition but have never had it diagnosed. I have lived with it all my adult life but only had it diagnosed by a smart GP a few weeks ago. Now I know what triggers it I can take preventative action as soon as I feel the symptoms coming on.
Here's what the Mayo clinic say about it:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/nonallergic-r…The important issue is that you don't have a cold/flu, so medications to treat those are ineffective and unnecessary.
Flu vaccine, particularly if you're in a high risk group or male - man flu has been proven to be true and men on average are worse affected by influenza than women. (Only works for the strains of influenza in the vaccine though, not influenza-like-illnesses and colds).
Washing your hands lots/avoiding touching your face like you're afraid of germs. Touching your face with hands that have been exposed is a very common mode of transfer. Note antibacterial gels have quite limited effectiveness.
If you are sick, particularly at the early stage when you're starting to feel off, stay at home. Remember you might be able to tough it out, but there's a whole bunch of people who you get in contact with that it would be detrimental. In my office, colleagues have family members that are elderly, newborn, on chemotherapy or radiotherapy, asthma, lupus, and are pregnant. I'd hate to be the person that gave my work mate a bad cold and he gave it to his 8 year old on his second round of chemo…
And cold and flu tabs only suppress symptoms; you're still contagious.Healthy diet with your 2 and 5, hydrated, and regular exercise as the norm for general health. Naturally with colder weather, this drops off.
Vitamin D and Zinc if you have a deficiency - Vitamin D deficiencies are quite common. Obviously resolving other deficiencies too (e.g. anaemic iron deficiency and non-anaemic iron deficiency also have increased instances of illness).
If you have an autoimmune disorder, managing that as stable as you can.
Unfortunately most supplements tend to look promising in small studies, and then when a larger study is run, they don't perform differently to placebo - hence why every year, you see talk about the next great thing after it worked on a study of 20 people but never the follow up talk about how it is still working on 1000 people.
One thing that I would like to see adopted here is the wearing of masks if you're sick. It's very common in parts of Asia yet never seen here. But do change the mask often (several times a day at least), otherwise it's ineffective.
And if you're sick, STAY HOME. Don't go to work. You're not a hero by coughing, spluttering, and sneezing around the office as you ineffectively get work done. You're the villain.
Move to a warmer climate over winter #endlesssummer
I thought this too, but research has shown that tropical parts of Australia also experience cold/flu seasons. Think it's related to to the cold virus not dying as quickly due to humidity.
Can confirm from stupid hot Townsville. We adapt and thing single digits at night is cold AF or something.
Viruses & winter is cause people huddle together when colder subconsciously, so even if it isn't really cold if people think it's cold they'll do it so whammo, instant flu season from upping the ease of infection.
Get a flu shot as soon as possible.
Eat well, and healthy.
Avoid touching, or being touched by other people, and wash your hands with an alcoholic hand cleanser when in a shopping centre regularly. Avoid touching public screens, such as Coles or Maccas shopping screens, EFT machines, and if you do wash your hands afterwards.
Avoid people who appear obviously unwell (seems obvious, but you’d be surprised).
Avoid touching your face, nose when in public.
As long as you don't smoke or excessively blow your nose, the flu may pass quickly with complete rest (bed, food, water, sleep, and nothing more stimulating than a podcast). I recommend a good nasal spray and pseudoephedrine cold and flu tablets to stem the blocked and runny nose that may cause throat, ear, or chest infections.
Flu shot, 66% efficacy.
Vitamin C supplementation can help
Other antioxidants can also help
Olvie leaf extract (armaforte - Over the counter at pharmacy) if already infected