H1N1 Prevention Tips

For those of you who are choosing not to get the H1N1 flu shot or even in general, here are a few tips which will help prevent you from catching the flu.

1. Frequent hand washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

2. "Hands-off-the-face approach. Resists all temptations to touch any part of the face unless your tempted to eat, in which case you've all ready washed your hands. Otherwise, only when you're having a bath/shower.

3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water. If you do not like to use salt water, Listerine is the other alternative. H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't under estimate this simple, inexpensive and power preventative method.

4. Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at lesat one every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at using a neti pot, but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing bother nostils with cotton swabs dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.

5. Boost your natural immunity with foods are rich with Vitamin C. If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorbtion.

For a list of foods that are rich with Vitamin C, go to this link.

6. Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

I suggest you pass this on to your entire e-list; you never know who might pay attention to it - and STAY ALIVE because of it.