April 2020
Here’s To Health What Should You Be Doing During Flu Season? It can often feel like we are under the weather for months during cold and flu season. Here are some ways to stop the spread and stay well.
Back to back illnesses can be physically and mentally draining. It may feel like you are sick from November to May. Why is that? Cold weather does not make you sick, but flourishing germs do. In fact you are more likely to catch
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a cold inside a heated building, than outside in the weather. That’s because it’s the germs that are causing you to get sick in the winter, not the weather itself. The common cold is caused by a number of different viruses, which are more active in the spring and fall; and the flu is caused by various strains
of the influenza virus, which are more active in the winter. You may start off with a cold in the fall, then catch the flu or other virus a few weeks later just to have your allergies wake up with the first blooms of spring. If this is the case, what can we do to keep our selves healthy?
