Posted on 01/02/2025 2:42:47 PM PST by yesthatjallen
As you deck the halls and traverse afar this holiday season, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of bringing an illness into the new year.
Flu, COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and norovirus are making their winter rounds nationwide, and you may have heard the term “quad-demic” pop up online or in conversation (the first three are sometimes called a “triple-demic”). While the unofficial term for the four maladies circulating in tandem evokes a sense of impending doom, the quadruple threat isn’t so different from respiratory virus seasons past.
“All of the viruses are here, it’s just they’re affecting different areas a little bit differently,” Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases tells Fortune. “I don’t want to panic people, but I would say if you haven’t been vaccinated and you’re eligible for vaccination—that means everybody 6 months of age and older—get that COVID shot, get that flu shot.”
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here is something that really helped me.
I took warm salt water with two slices of lemon and spent a lot of time gargling and holding it in the back of my throat with my head tilted for as long as I could stand. I had to do this sometimes in the shower because my gag reflex sometimes would projectile it out.
I spent one day focusing on this and it really helped.
I am still battling the coughing. Mucinex fast max does help with that at night
If you kill all the germs around you and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along you're not going to be prepared... When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River, and it was filled with raw sewage. OK? We swam in raw sewage — you know, to cool off. And at that time, the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio. No one. Ever. You know why? 'Cause we swam in raw sewage.
Some years there’s more sickness than other years. That’s the way it’s always been.
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