PREVENTING THE FLU
Good Health Habits Can Help Stop Germs
April 27, 2009
1.
Avoid close contact.
2. Stay home when you are sick.
3. Cover your mouth and nose.
4. Wash your hands often.
5. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
6. Practice other good health habits.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.
Stay home
from work, school, and errands when you are sick. Keep sick
children at home. You will help prevent others from catching
the illness.
Cover your
mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. Cover
your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw
the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Washing your
hands and the hands of your children often will help protect you
from germs.
Germs are
often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated
with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or
mouth.
Get plenty of
sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of
fluids, and eat nutritious food.
There is no
vaccine available at this time for the current outbreak of the
Swine Flu virus, so it is important for people living in the
affected areas to take steps to prevent spreading the virus to
others. If people are ill, they should stay at home and limit
contact with others, except to seek medical care. Healthy residents
living in these areas should take the everyday preventive actions
<http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/habits.htm>
listed above. People who live in these areas who develop an
illness with fever and respiratory symptoms, such as cough and
runny nose, and possibly other symptoms, such as body aches,
nausea, or vomiting or diarrhea, should contact their health care
provider. Their health care provider will determine whether
influenza testing is needed.
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