There can be fever, congestion, fatigue and body aches with flu symptoms. Flu is very common and 5 to 20 percent people can get flu every year. About 200,000 people are hospitalized every year due to flu and about 36,000 people die from the flu.
The flue can spread through a virus which infects the nose, throat and lungs and it spreads from one person to other due to sneezing of infected person. This virus enters the body through air and then passes from lungs, nose and throat to the next unsuspecting person. The flu can also spread by toughing a contaminated surface or person with flu germs and then he touches his eyes, nose or mouth.
What's the best way to prevent flu?
The most important key to flu prevention is that you and your family should get a flu shot and there is no cure for the flu. There can be very serious complications of flu in some people especially in infants and young children. It can also cause many problems for the people having lung disease, heart disease, diabetes and other chronic medical problems. You should talk to your doctor about the flu shot. The people around you should be immunized for the prevention of viral infection.
the flu infection virus spreads very quickly when one member gets flu and it then become a family affair. You should always adopt the flu prevention habits at your home along with using tissues and other things. You can kill these germs very easily with these prevention habits. You should consider the following strategies.
Kitchen is good place for the bacteria to lurk in. There remain the food borne pathogens in the kitchen sinks which linger from the food preparation like raw meat, poultry, raw eggs, and dirty from and vegetable. The illness can easily spread when you use dirty dishes, cutting boards and other such things. The germs can spread when you and your family members wash your hands on dirty kitchen sink, share drinking glasses and sneeze and cough in the air. You should be well aware about the spreading of these germs and you should be able to resolve this problem.
You should clean sink and other places in the kitchen with warm soapy water and then wip these places with disinfected solution. You should use ¼ cup chlorine bleach in one gallon cool water as disinfectant. Bleach is very effective in killing germs like salmonella and E. coli and it also very cheap. The rhinovirus can also be killed with bleach solution which can cause cold and diarrhea in young children. You should let the surface dry after applying a bleach solution. The kitchen floor should remain clean especially if there are young children who can get the germs by toughing the floor very easily. Then these children will put the infected hands into their mouth therefore it is very important for you to sanitize floor to prevent illness.
You should also give attention to the garbage disposal and kitchen sponge. The use of bleach solutions is very good on these places few times in a week and let it stand for some time. You should toss the kitchen sponge every day to dishwasher as it is the most bacteria laden place in your kitchen. You can prevent yourself from illness by keeping everything in the kitchen clean. The hands and other objects should be kept clean as bacteria can easily transmit from one place to other. You should use 2 teaspoon liquid chlorine bleach in one quart of water to clean the cutting boards.