It’s the holiday season and combined with all of the merrymaking we also need to be on guard against a bug which can’t just put a monkey wrench in all our pleasure but make us extremely ill. That bug would be flu. However, there are those who never get the flu, or get it mildly it attracts just a few sniffles and fatigue.
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Their immune system has been primed to fight the flu. Here’s what you will need to know about the flu and how to pump up your immune system to beat it! Not so much now, but for years previously, flu was known to generally as “the grip”. It comes from the French word for the illness “grippe” and that is what it seems like too – something which has you in its”grip” for several days from that you fight to free yourself. It’s an extremely contagious viral upper respiratory disease which makes your whole body ache with cough, fever, and nausea.
Not pleasant, I understand. The flu virus enters the body through the eyes, nose, or mouth in many ways – touching contaminated objects like doorknobs, countertops, or anything, really, that someone with the virus has touched, sneezed or coughed on. If you do not wash your hands after touching things, you may transmit the bug to yourself if you touch your face.
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Adults, normally, touch their face over 18 times per day and kids much more? Lots of chances to give yourself the influenza virus if you don’t wash your hands ! Additionally, someone with the virus and is coughing, or sneezing near you can transmit germs into the air that you breathe. Once inside, it settles into your lungs and the disease sets in. The elderly, very young children, and individuals with certain other health conditions are at the maximum risk from serious consequences of the flu, chiefly because their immune systems aren’t as powerful as others. School age children are usually the largest carrier group of the influenza virus since they are in contact with a significant number of individuals in school and other activities.
Every year in the U.S., between 5% and 20% of the population gets the flu, about 200,000 suffer complications from it, and yet another 23,600 really succumb to it. Like my patients, you might already understand the”you should” of generally staying healthy – getting the most nutritious foods/supplements, exercising regularly, drinking enough fluids, getting enough sleep and trying to minimize stress.
Flu season
During flu season, however, it’s important to arm yourself against becoming sick by ramping up these steps. Nutrition: Therapeutic amounts of antioxidants, Vitamin C, A, E, zinc and Vitamin D3 really help enhance the immune system. Supplementation of 500-1,000 mg per day of Vitamin C, 3,000 of A as beta carotene, 400 milligrams of E, and 100 milligrams of zinc. Studies indicate that people don’t get enough Vitamin D3. In winter months, once the sun is not quite as strong, it’s even more important to supplement D3.
People who take D3, 1-2,000 IU per day (although can safely visit 5,000 IU per day), have quite low-to-no episodes of flu or colds, or they get considerably milder forms. One study revealed D3 to reduce flu better than vaccines or antivirals. A Japanese study found it to ward off flu and asthma attacks.
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- Exercise: During winter, all of us tend to slack off with regular exercise. However, the influenza season is the most important time to keep exercising. Raising your heart rate and perspiration on a regular basis helps keep your immune system healthy. Doing this on a mini-trampoline helps flush out your lymph system and prevent viruses from gaining a stronghold.
- Rush: Sleep at least 6-8 hours per night is one of the best hedges against getting sick. When you are tired, your immune system becomes weak and can’t repair itself properly.
- Fluids: It’s always important to drink sufficient water, but even more so during flu season. Dehydration weakens your immune system and leaves your kidneys and liver fight harder to eliminate toxins, viruses and germs you come in contact with.
- Hygiene: Hand washing is the simplest and efficient way to keep from getting the flu. This is particularly true when you’re out in people with restrooms, shopping or mingling in audiences, frequenting restaurants, attending holiday parties, etc.. Also carry a small bottle of nasal saline spray which you can squirt in your nostrils and blow out after being in public. This flushes out any influenza viruses that you may breathe while in public.
- Vaccine: Flu vaccines are easily available in virtually every significant drugstore chain nationwide in addition to your personal doctor’s office. Statistics show they do stop the flu from happening, or a much milder form of it, but some people can not tolerate them.
- Flu Symptom Relievers: Should you get the flu, you can visit your doctor, or an urgent care walk in clinic, and get a dose of Tamiflu. Over-the-counter analgesics like aspirin, or more natural white willow bark, can be used for muscle aches. OTC preparations like Thera-Flu can alleviate symptoms and help you sleep. Antihistamines, like Benadryl, dry up runny eyes and noses. Cough syrups using a mucus-thinning agent helps break up lung congestion.
- Taken at the first onset of symptoms, homeopathic”Os” or”Oscillo” (short for oscillicoccinum) helps alleviate and alleviate symptoms. Nobody wants to get the flu, especially during the holiday season. It’s no fun, which makes you feel bad and, worse, can be quite dangerous. If you obey the immune system boosting advice offered above, it is going to go a long way in preventing you against getting the flu, or some other viral or bacterial infection, this flu season.
