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How to Survive if You End Up with the Flu This Season // No one likes getting sick, but we're smack in the middle of flu season.There are my best tips for getting yourself over the flu in record time. #fluseason #flu

  No one likes flu season. I’m not even sure if the flu likes flu season. It doesn’t help that the flu, while seemingly innocent, is actually quite deadly. In the 2017 – 2018 flu season there were an estimated 61,000 deaths, a massive jump from the 38,000 in the 2016 – 2017 season.

That’s a lot of people! 

You don’t have to worry too much if you take care of yourself properly if or when you have…

No matter what’s ahead on your calendar, one thing is clear: You can’t afford to let a cold or the flu slow you down. Cold and flu can make you sick and restless with constant uncomfortable feeling and sneezing! The sheer number of different cold viruses is the reason we keep catching colds, season after season. Here are ways you could prevent colds and flu:

DO NOT COVER YOUR SNEEZES WITH HAND

Do…

If you listen well, you just may hear the sneezing, coughing and nose blowing of co-workers fighting a cold or the flu. Enterprises TV offers some tips on how to prevent getting sick when it seems like everybody else is not well.

  Guess what? Almost 90 percent of 1,000 adults surveyed believe and-washing is the best way to prevent getting the flu, which it is not. The flu vaccine is the one sure-fire way to prevent getting the flu and it does give you the flu.

  Forty-two percent of those surveyed didn’t know that there are prescription antiviral medications available to treat the flu.

  Now let’s take a look at how to really prevent getting sick at work.

  Get the flu vaccine. This is the one way to prevent getting the flu.

Feeling ill? Stay home from work. Call in sick. If possible, offer to work from home.

If you are at work, please, sneeze or cough into a tissue, paper towel or toilet paper. If there is none handy, sneeze or cough into your elbow. The co-workers do not care to hear how majestically you sneeze and certainly do not want your germs floating over the cubicle walls.

Know the flu’s symptoms: fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, achiness, fatigue or headaches – or a combination of all of them.

Wash your hands thoroughly with water and soap. Sing the Happy Birthday song twice to be sure you wash them long enough.

Share a desk? Wipe all hard surfaces, including the phone, with an antibacterial wipe or a little rubbing alcohol on a paper towel before using them.

Enterprises TV suggests visiting the family doctor is you think the flu is coming on. Don’t try over the counter medications because they don’t work as well as a prescription antiviral. Be kind and caring at work with co-workers who are not well. Buy them a box of tissues and ask them if they have seen a doctor. Be well and stay well.

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In addition to yesterday's Flu Preventing Facts, Dr. Funfack shared another interesting piece of information in his German Newsletter: Instead of compensating it's employees for flu shots, one European company opted to pay for the Vitamin D substitute instead! Not only is this approach cheaper, it might also be more effective. Dr. Funfack announced that he will summarize the results of this trial next spring.

According to Dr. Funfack, such a Vitamin D flu prevention therapy will typically be administered in 2 phases (the Vitamin D doses below refer to therapy guidelines published in Mayo Clin Proc. 2010 August; 85(8): 752–758):

After determining the extend of the Vitamin D deficiency by screening the 25(OH)D blood level, a commonly applied strategy is to prescribe a loading dose that depends on the extend of the deficiency (eg, 50,000 IU of vitamin D orally once weekly for 2-3 months, or 3 times weekly for 1 month). 

Assuming no change in lifestyle or diet, a daily maintenance/prevention dose averaging 2,000 IU/d, which meets the current safe upper limit guidelines. According to recommendations from the Endocrine Society, obese patients, patients with malabsorption syndromes, and patients on medications affecting vitamin D metabolism, may require a dose, which is two to three times higher.