FLU PREVENTION TIPS

Most of the time seasonal flu activity can last as late as May. The flu spreads easily from person to person. Prevention is the key to maintaining a healthy environment during the entire flu season.

• Wash your hands frequently.
• Avoid, as much as possible, touching the face with your hands.

• Cough into elbows, not hands where it’s more likely to spread bacteria and viruses through touch.

• Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home, work or school, especially when someone is ill.

• Twice a day, especially when you are in contact with other people, or when you get home, gargle with warm water containing table salt. It usually takes 2 to 3 days between the time when the throat and nose are infected and onset of symptoms. The gargling done regularly can prevent the spread of the virus. In a way, the gargling with salt water has the same effect on the person in a healthy state, that the vaccine in an infected person. We should not underestimate this simple, inexpensive and effective preventive method. Viruses do not support warm water containing salts.

• At least once a day, at night, as an example, clear the nostrils with warm water and salt. Blow your nose gently and then with a cotton swab (or some cotton) dipped in a solution of warm water with salt, pass in both nostrils. This is another effective method for reducing the spread of the virus. Cleaning the nostrils, containing warm water and table salt, it is an excellent method to remove impurities that host viruses and bacteria; it is an ancient custom in India.

• Enhance their immune system by eating foods rich in vitamin C. If vitamin C is taken in the form of pellets or tablets, ensure that contains zinc in order to accelerate the absorption of vitamin C.

• Drink as much as possible hot drinks (tea, coffee, infusions etc.). Hot drinks clean the viruses which may be found deposited in the throat and then deposited in the stomach where they cannot survive because the local pH is acid, which prevents their proliferation.  

​It will be a great contribution if you get this message to as many people as possible. You provide a great public service to help fight this flu that has affected so many people.