The swine flu has killed some 2,000 people in the US alone and is continuing to kill more and more each day. In order to best prepare for the flu, you’ll need to realize how it works and you’ll want to follow these advice tips and precautions.
1. Drink plenty of water: drinking water is important because it keeps your body working properly and can help fend off fever. The swine flu is notorious in its ability to dehydrate people, something that weakens your immune system and makes you more easy to further infect. If you’re dehydrated, for example, you’ll have less lining in your lungs and the flu will infect them more easily. You’ll also open yourself up to bacterial co-infection. The flu even has the potential to kill you from dehydration alone, although this is relatively rare and unlikely to happen.
2. Get Tamiflu early if you show flu-like symptoms. Tamiflu is only useful if you get it in the first couple days after you become infected. If you don’t get it after then, then it’s really not that useful and won’t help much. You want to take Tamiflu within 48 hours of showing symptoms, although it is also useful as a preventative, but doctors aren’t really prescribing it for that anymore. If you can’t find Tamiflu at your local pharmacy, I recommend shopping around for it until you can find some. It’s incredibly important and not something that should be passed up.
3. Wear N95 masks. These masks are recommended for health care workers and are therefore recommended for you. These are good to help you avoid getting the flu but are also good if you have the flu yourself and are around people that are in high risk groups. While the mask’s filters aren’t small enough to fully block out the virus, they’ll stop the majority of it and will definitely help in avoiding getting sick, as I mentioned before.
4. Make sure you have plenty of food and water to survive if you need to isolate yourself. If there’s a particularly bad outbreak in your community with multiple people dying, you’ll want to isolate yourself. These outbreaks can last as long as four weeks, so I recommend getting at least enough food and water to last that long. It’s not likely that you’ll lose utilities, but you’ll definitely want to avoid going out. Multiple deaths in your area could mean that a particularly virulent strain is circulating, increasing the odds of you dying if you do catch it.
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