Flu Season In Full Swing
It looks like we are right in the middle of flu season. I don’t think there is an actual flu season, but if there was, we would be in the middle of it. I see people in a lot of states right now are having a flu epidemic and chances are you have been sick recently with flu or cold like symptoms or know someone that has. In my state of Georgia, we are seeing a sharp increase in those going to the doctor’s offices and to the emergency room suffering from cold and flu like symptoms.
Germs is what helps spread the flu from one person to another one. It’s important to wash your hands frequently and try to limit your exposure to others that might be suffering from flu-like symptoms. Sometimes no matter how hard we try to prevent from getting sick, it still finds a way to get in our bodies and make us feel bad. I recently had a touch of these cold and flu symptoms, but it wasn’t that bad for me. I’m not sure I have got what everyone else is suffering from, because my symptoms only seem to last for about 36 hours and I am feeling much better than I was feeling. I have even seen a couple of players on my local professional basketball team (Atlanta Hawks) get sick and was limited for a short-time due to these germs infecting us all. The flu spreads very fast and it doesn’t take long to work it’s way around, until it eventually finds you. I know the kids are great for spreading the flu. If one kid gets sick at school, it’s only natural for others to catch it from other students, while they are being confined to rooms with each other for an extended period of time. The kids bring it home and get the members of their household sick and soon just about everybody you know will have either got sick or knew someone that did. This happens just about every year and it seems like we have a pretty bad flu bug making it’s rounds now.
If you do get sick, try to get plenty of rest, find ways to add extra vitamin C to your diet and find a good cold medicine that helps relieve you of these symptoms. It’s no fun being sick, but if we can race to fuel our bodies with all the things it needs to fight off the bug, we can limit the time we might have to miss from work or school.
