Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially announced the beginning of influenza season 2018-19. Children younger than 5 years old had the highest hospitalization rate, at 7.7 per 100,000 population.
Earlier we do remember notorious Spanish flu taking more lives than what were killed in first world war.
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drinking natural fruit juice and soup rather than taking a lot of drugs
@ Dr. Sikandar Hayat Khan
I think taking vitamin C supplements on a regular basis in influenza season will be helpful in preventing and relieving influenza symptoms.
Article Vitamin C Is an Essential Factor on the Anti-viral Immune Re...
Article Protective activity of ascorbic acid at influenza infection
Article Prevention and Treatment of Influenza, Influenza-Like Illnes...
There are some precautions for seasonal flu.
cleaning hands
We recommend washing your hands with soap and water at close intervals. Before eating, before eating food, after getting out of the toilet, after touching the secretions, after coughing and sneezing, and after touching the paper tissues used. Hand washing at close times reduces the risk of infection or infection.
Cover the mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing
It is recommended that the mouth and nose should be covered by hand when coughing or sneezing. Instead, use a paper napkin and throw it into the trash. Thus, the transmission of infection to others is reduced when common needs and purposes are met.
Stay home when feeling sick
We recommend that you do not go out of the house (to work, to education, etc.) if you feel the beginning of the disease, and do not send sick children to school, kindergarten or nursery. Only after recovery from illness and a sense of health and wellness can the routine return to work or work in the educational framework.
Vaccination against influenza
The Ministry of Health reminds all citizens that flu can be prevented through prevention, provided that vaccination is received at least two weeks prior to exposure to infection. We recommend that all citizens of the country receive vaccination from the age of 6 months and above.
drinking natural fruit juice and soup rather than taking a lot of drugs
Influenza Control Measures
Annual vaccination is the most important measure to prevent seasonal influenza infection. Achieving high influenza vaccination rates of HCP and patients is a critical step in preventing healthcare transmission of influenza from HCP to patients and from patients to HCP.
The major effective control measure for preventing infection and illness is inactivated vaccine, which can prevent influenza illnesses and their complications when given before exposure to the virus.
One has to be away from people who get flue. A lot of people take many precautions to remain healthy and not to vet the flue viruses. Some people take vaccines although they do not give strong immunity against all kinds of flue viruses.
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Olutosin Otekunrin
I would like to share you all with Tamiflu's side effect. Several Korean students suffered from hallucination and auditory hallucination and even killed themselves by jumping off their apartments into the floor. We need to pay a close attention on the patients (family members) while they are taking the Tamiflu to cure Influenza.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/infectioncontrol/healthcaresettings.htm
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