11.Flu Season is More Deadly This Year
By Susan Ellis of Keylifejourneys
Media hype regarding the flu has reached monumental proportions this week in Toronto. The death of a teenager from complications from the H1N1 virus within 2 days of the first symptom has stunned everyone. On Thursday I was driving past one of the centres where the anti- H1N1 shot is being administered. The line up of mainly pregnant women and children stretched around the park land in front of the civic centre. Shortly thereafter they had stopped new people, ensuring those in line would get service before the clinic closed. There are calls for 24 hour access.
While everyone is panic struck, while people are clutched by anxiety and fear, stress is mounting. Stress puts pressure on the immune system making us more vulnerable to infection.
Lets go back to basics. Lets take a deep breath and look at how we normally handle exposure to infection. If we have had bad habits in the past it is time to change. For example I was at church last week and as a volunteer, after the service, I was cleaning up the left behind orders of service from the pews. In nearly every pew there were abandoned used paper tissues. This is like leaving a loaded gun behind. Often the germs have passed through the tissue and onto the user's hand. That hand is now going to touch a door, a subway train grab bar, the apple they didn't pick in the supermarket, the money you got in your change.
The internet is full of good information as to how to protect yourself from others and to make you mindful in how your behaviour impacts on the health of others. The internet is also a place which feeds the gullible with false promises and hoaxes. One circulating at present suggests that a cut up onion in the house will absorb germs. Always check out such claims at www.snopes.com This onion story dates back 100 years and is an old wife's tale. I have included Snopes links to my alternative medicine actions.
Thousands of people die any winter, year after year, from the regular flu yet our behaviour to limit the transmission does not reflect any concern. Is it now that since predominantly younger people are being infected we are suddenly feeling scared? Maybe if we had all behaved differently when the elderly and chronically ill were dying; we would not be panicking now.
Below I have listed some precautions and some techniques I have collected from the internet. The salt water gargle and sinus cleansing I am doing. I also consume at least 1000 UI vitamin D a day. But also I am drinking the best immune builder of all - I'm drinking my Zrii.
Colds and flu are transported by virus filled droplets from sneezes and coughs. They move through the air for us to breath or they land on the things we touch. Our hands then carry the virus to other surfaces such as our mouth, eyes and nose. When the virus lands of food or food preparation surfaces we are also at risk.
1. Sneeze and cough into a tissue or your sleeve. If using a tissue, dispose of it safely. Don't leave it behind openly. Wash your hands after using a tissue.
2. Wash your hands after touching any surface which has been touched by others. Keep your hands away from your mouth when touching objects outside the home.
3. Disinfect surfaces in the home where droplets may fall. This is very important when children are present who often have their fingers in their mouth or put toys in their mouth.
4. Frequent hand-washing. Carry hand washing gels with you at all times. Use dispensers when you see them in public places. Encourage public places you use regularly to install hand sanitizing dispensers - your supermarket, the lobby of your apartment building etc
5. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). The flu takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. http://www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/prevent.asp
6. Vitamin D is an immunity booster.
7. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists: Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.
8. Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large
amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.
9. A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural 'Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu. http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/honey.asp
Perhaps when all is said and done washing hands, disinfecting surfaces and keeping germs to oneself are the techniques to focus on. This may mean that some should stay home from work and school for the sake of others. If you have to go out while infected, wear a mask.
If we focused more on preventing others from getting colds and flu from us, we would have a healthier world. But somehow we assume someone else is the enemy.
Now why not add some Zrii to your health regime?
Meanwhile let's look at some photographs I took during a walk in the rain at the beginning of October.
Media hype regarding the flu has reached monumental proportions this week in Toronto. The death of a teenager from complications from the H1N1 virus within 2 days of the first symptom has stunned everyone. On Thursday I was driving past one of the centres where the anti- H1N1 shot is being administered. The line up of mainly pregnant women and children stretched around the park land in front of the civic centre. Shortly thereafter they had stopped new people, ensuring those in line would get service before the clinic closed. There are calls for 24 hour access.
While everyone is panic struck, while people are clutched by anxiety and fear, stress is mounting. Stress puts pressure on the immune system making us more vulnerable to infection.
Lets go back to basics. Lets take a deep breath and look at how we normally handle exposure to infection. If we have had bad habits in the past it is time to change. For example I was at church last week and as a volunteer, after the service, I was cleaning up the left behind orders of service from the pews. In nearly every pew there were abandoned used paper tissues. This is like leaving a loaded gun behind. Often the germs have passed through the tissue and onto the user's hand. That hand is now going to touch a door, a subway train grab bar, the apple they didn't pick in the supermarket, the money you got in your change.
The internet is full of good information as to how to protect yourself from others and to make you mindful in how your behaviour impacts on the health of others. The internet is also a place which feeds the gullible with false promises and hoaxes. One circulating at present suggests that a cut up onion in the house will absorb germs. Always check out such claims at www.snopes.com This onion story dates back 100 years and is an old wife's tale. I have included Snopes links to my alternative medicine actions.
Thousands of people die any winter, year after year, from the regular flu yet our behaviour to limit the transmission does not reflect any concern. Is it now that since predominantly younger people are being infected we are suddenly feeling scared? Maybe if we had all behaved differently when the elderly and chronically ill were dying; we would not be panicking now.
Below I have listed some precautions and some techniques I have collected from the internet. The salt water gargle and sinus cleansing I am doing. I also consume at least 1000 UI vitamin D a day. But also I am drinking the best immune builder of all - I'm drinking my Zrii.
Colds and flu are transported by virus filled droplets from sneezes and coughs. They move through the air for us to breath or they land on the things we touch. Our hands then carry the virus to other surfaces such as our mouth, eyes and nose. When the virus lands of food or food preparation surfaces we are also at risk.
1. Sneeze and cough into a tissue or your sleeve. If using a tissue, dispose of it safely. Don't leave it behind openly. Wash your hands after using a tissue.
2. Wash your hands after touching any surface which has been touched by others. Keep your hands away from your mouth when touching objects outside the home.
3. Disinfect surfaces in the home where droplets may fall. This is very important when children are present who often have their fingers in their mouth or put toys in their mouth.
4. Frequent hand-washing. Carry hand washing gels with you at all times. Use dispensers when you see them in public places. Encourage public places you use regularly to install hand sanitizing dispensers - your supermarket, the lobby of your apartment building etc
5. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). The flu takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. http://www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/prevent.asp
6. Vitamin D is an immunity booster.
7. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists: Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.
8. Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large
amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.
9. A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural 'Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu. http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/honey.asp
Perhaps when all is said and done washing hands, disinfecting surfaces and keeping germs to oneself are the techniques to focus on. This may mean that some should stay home from work and school for the sake of others. If you have to go out while infected, wear a mask.
If we focused more on preventing others from getting colds and flu from us, we would have a healthier world. But somehow we assume someone else is the enemy.
Now why not add some Zrii to your health regime?
Meanwhile let's look at some photographs I took during a walk in the rain at the beginning of October.
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