How to Avoid the Flu

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The winter is time for skiing and outdoor fun, not getting the flu. Here's how to avoid it.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Flu shot
Multivitamin
Hand soap
Plenty of water
Garlic
Common sense

Warning: Consult your physician before taking any over-the-counter vitamins or medication and before getting a flu shot.

Step 1: Get flu shot

Get a flu shot in October, November, or December. Local pharmacies, schools, and hospitals—and maybe even your school or workplace—will announce when they're offering them each season.

Tip: Check online to determine when the flu is at its peak in your area.

Step 2: Take multivitamin

Take a multivitamin daily, especially one high in vitamin C.

Step 3: Eat balanced diet

Eat a balanced diet with lots of vegetables—getting too few or too many calories can place extra strain on your immune system.

Step 4: Exercise daily

Exercise daily, especially throughout the winter. Raising your body temperature actually helps to clean your blood, killing off nasty stuff lurking there.

Step 5: Wash hands often

Wash your hands often. If there's a sink nearby, scrubbing with plain old soap and water is just as good or better than antibacterial gels.

Tip: Wash even more frequently before, during, and after you prepare food; before you eat; after you use the restroom; after handling animals; and when the people around you, like classmates, co-workers or family members, are sick.

Step 6: Clean counters & surfaces

Clean counters and surfaces often—especially those that come in contact with hands or faces often, like phones or remote controls.

Step 7: Turn away from sneezes

If someone near you sneezes, turn away to avoid the blast in case they don't do so into a tissue or the crook or their arm.

Step 8: Beware of little kids

Beware of little kids! Schools are breeding grounds for sickness, and kids are unwitting petri dishes.

Step 9: Avoid touching sick people

Avoid shaking hands and other kinds of close contact with those who are—or might be—sick.

Tip: Keep your hands away from your own face as much as possible, or you risk passing whatever you've picked up on your fingers into your eyes, nose, or mouth.

Step 10: Drink water every day

Drink lots of water every day.

Step 11: Eat garlic

Eat garlic. Studies show it can actually kill off the flu virus, and suggest it might also help bolster your immune sytem.

Step 12: Get plenty of rest

Get plenty of rest. Stress increases the amount of the hormone cortisol in your body, which can interfere with the white blood cells that fight off infections.

Step 13: Stay in bed

If you manage to get sick, do yourself and everyone else a favor: stay in bed. There's no need to cause other people misery.

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[eyehunter]

I am loving all these How to videos!!!!

Thanks for making and sharing!

[ruberbandman9]

she says school 2 times...:)

[Mad4cheese4ever]

I got pneumonia and antibiotics helped me

[MrsProller123]

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[andrewdoy624993]

Where can I get common sense?

[MyLyricsVideosRock]

thx howcast i just finished being sick all i really have left is a little bit of my sinus infection. and i hate being sick so i need to avoid it especially with winter coming up

[Kissing12Roses]

Time and jugs of juice!

[FixerNK]

2:29 that girl might be a Vampire!

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Step One:Get a flu shot

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[gothica2017]

what if you r a kid??

[katiekat1239]

step 1:dont get sick.....DONE!!!

[constachugga]

i went though the flu season without a flu(or fluenza) shot! well now i will jynx it next year