Bad Flu This Year! Stay Home Please!

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A good precaution for everyone is to avoid bringing the outside into your home. When I enter the house from work, the store, an event, first thing I go to the bathroom and do a good handwashing. When DH worked (with the public), he would change his work clothes in the laundry/mud room before entering the house proper.

We both remove our shoes at the door and wear socks or house slippers.

It has reduced the number of colds and little bugs significantly. For school kids, leave their school shoes out of the house, they track in a jillion viruses on their shoes!
 
TheLittleLady said:
The shops in this part of the world often have auto open doors that do not need to be touched and they do supply anti bacterial wipes in a dispenser next to the carts, so, one can do at least a swipe at cleaning. I carry Clorox bleach wipes and alcohol based gel to use on my hands after touching such things.

Awareness of bacteria and viruses is important when one has an immune compromised person in the home (or when you simply do not enjoy missing work for illness).

Also, in this part of the world the Holy Water in the fonts is made from plain ole tap water without added bleach or other chemicals. The fonts are cleaned weekly, after cleaning those fonts a couple of times one realizes how much dirt and grime comes off hands into that water. Ewwwwww.
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I do none of those things and rarely get sick. I have six kids and I wipe snotty noses and cuddle feverish little bodies. My immune system is in good working order, obviously. If an individual has immune system concerns, it is good to use what protection is available. My non-scientific observation is that people who really worry about that sort of thing get sick a lot more often than my family. With 8 people, we only have a significant contagious illness (more than a cold) every few years and it usually only takes down a couple of us. But maybe those who worry about germs are more prone to getting sick and have developed their habits for a good reason. I’ll stick with washing my hands with regular (not anti-bacterial) soap after using the bathroom and changing a diaper, before (and during) cooking, and before eating (usually).

Of course we should not deliberately or carelessly expose others to our illnesses, but exposure to germs is necessary for a healthy immune system.

 
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I remember several times in Ukraine the shameless clans of pharmaceutical mafia were selling the surrogate medication and through means of mass information inspired people to hurry up to buy theirs network pharmacies surrogate drugs.
People were surprised that on the other side on the border with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, no virus, no psychosis.
Оnly then it turned out that while Yulia Tymoshenko was a Prime Minister of Ukraine, in her entourage there were the scumbags that just wanted to crank out another cash deal.
People massively were buying “Tamiflu” often of unknown origin, these people besides Ukrainian passport have Israeli passports, and usually in a third world countries they do this kind of “geshefts”.
If , you guise have farmacy monopolies in your area then some thing like this can happen there as well.
I use garlic , garlic kills all viruses, and I like sauna in a bath house😁 Mass psychosis of the fatal virus is often different kinds of experimentation on defenseless people.
 
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If you have an immuno-compromised person in the house, it’s a very different situation and you need to take special precautions. However, since I don’t have this issue, I am more concerned with weakening my immune system through too many antibiotics, anti-bacterial wipes, etc. I have lots of grubby pets and frequently travel or go out to grubby places that probably make the church look quite clean. I do wash my hands with soap and water many, many times a day, but do not do the hand santizer thing.
 
My daughter is less than one years old and is in daycare a couple times a week. The place is a haven for germs and bacteria. By the time she picks it up, it will mutate and hit me hard. I’ve been sick for what seems like months now, every couple of weeks is something else. I’m getting really sick of all this (pun intended.)
 
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Amen. Yes, please reverence the Precious Blood when passing. Also, if you are sick, please stay home. The flu is indeed bad this year. Even the hospital staff are wearing masks.
 
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michaelArc said:
My daughter is less than one years old and is in daycare a couple times a week. The place is a haven for germs and bacteria. By the time she picks it up, it will mutate and hit me hard. I’ve been sick for what seems like months now, every couple of weeks is something else. I’m getting really sick of all this (pun intended.)
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I was like this with my first. That year he would come down with the sniffles and I’d end up with something horrid. One time, he had a bit of a cold and I ended up with my entire gums swollen with no real solution but to wait it out. I didn’t eat solids for more than a week.

Once, he had a slight fever and was lethargic for a day. My husband and I ended up throwing up for days.

I was glad he wasn’t worse; but, sheesh, it was a long year!
 
Even though I’ve had my flu shot, I’ve now been hit by the flu. Staying indoors as much as possible. Have hand sanitizer within reach. As my mother’s caregiver, it’s difficult being down with this. But we’re squeaking through.
 
I will only use bleach or alcohol, sometimes peroxide to clean ears or cuts. The other “antibacterial” chemicals cause far more damage than they help.
 
I just had a memory pop up from 1976 – the “swine flu” epidemic. This was going on at the same time as I was having ear surgery at Clark AB hospital in the Philippines. There was a shot available, but my surgeon told me not to have it administered, because he didn’t want me getting sick from the shot at the same time that I was recovering from having my inner ear laid open 😮

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We give her a bath immediately when she gets home and change her into new clothes.
 
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This sounds exactly like my experience. Concerned that my daughter always has the sniffles, the doctor told us that all children in daycare are sick in the first year. But I never thought it would be this bad for us parents.
 
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If it’s any consolation we did not had the same experience with #2. I guess we were still immune that time around, lol. 😷
 
Greenfields said:
I’m sorry to hear this,we had a bad strain of flu this year in Australia,with many hospitalised with complications,and more deaths than for a number of years.Please all take care and be prompt to read up what symptoms to look out for and when you should visit the Doctor .
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Yep. Even with a vaccine I had three separate bouts. Thankfully (possibly because of the vaccine) I was only sick for 2-3 days each time.
 
I have a friend with a bad cough, chills/then she gets hot when she turns the heat up, fever, nasally, and diarrhea. I don’t want to get it. She came down with it the day after Christmas and was here on Christmas. I urged her to stay home from Mass.

On Christmas Eve, my daughter who was on the very end of a cough was here, along with her fiancé. He had the bird flu and then got bronchitis.
 
My dad had the Hong Kong flu and that was the sickest I’d ever seen him until, God Rest his soul, he was dying from pancreatic cancer.
 
For healing coughing try eating fresh ginger. Or chop some ginger and put boiling water on top and let it sit 10 mins and then drain it and drink the liquid. For me it has been the best anti-bronchitis syrup ever. And it is all natural and cheap.
 
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