Five Tips to Reduce Cold and Flu Spread

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Things we've done in our home to reduce Cold and Flu Season Normally, someone gets sick you wash everything up and wipe everything down. Hoping to kill the germs and clear the virus from your home and loved one's. In the process you end up sick and it spreads like wildfire throughout your home. This year, in our home, we took a new approach. Here's a list of things we've done. 1. Wear Gloves Whether you're going to work or out shopping. Wear gloves! I find I'm less prone to touch my face if I have gloves on. You can't brush your hair from your eyes with gloves, because your hair then gets all that static electricity and sticks out. Nor can you get something out of your eye with gloves on. Remember germs get into opening eyes, nose, mouth, even ears. 2. Wash Wash Wash In our home we wash up jackets once a week. And gloves, scarves, hats go in the wash with each wash. 3. Vicks Tissues Instead of buying just plain issues, which we do keep for teary-eyed movies, I've been buying Vicks tissues. These help with any stuffiness one might be feeling each time they need to blow their nose, regardless of not being sick. This has been a great preventive measure to fight any onset of sinus issues. 4. Lots of Fluids We keep a wide range of drinks for any health issue. Be it healthy digestion, kidneys cleansing, or just you're daily dose for bone health or energy. - Water - Milk (Whole Milk) - Orange Juice (It's Simply Orange or we freshly squeeze oranges ourselves.) - Apple Juice -Cranberry Juice (We like Cran- Raspberry) - Soda (Moutain Dew or Ginger Ale) - Gatorade - Tea - Honey and Lemon for warm honey water or warm lemon water 5. Bedding Things like pillow cases and sheets with every other wash and comforters washed 3-4 times out of the season with daily lint cleanings due to having cats. We've seen a major difference in everyone being more healthy this winter.. Plus, one more thing has helped opening windows on the warmest days of the season. Changing the air out daily even just for 15 minutes has made a difference. I hope you find this post helpful. Please feel free to share with us anything you or our family has done to fight of illness.