COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Flu play is here.
“So wide successful Georgia, what we are seeing is an summation successful flu enactment earlier than what we spot successful erstwhile years,” says Jack Lockwood, Public Information Officer for the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Cough syrup is flying disconnected the shelves this play for children due to the fact that much kids are getting sick. According to the CDC, Georgia has the highest level of flu enactment successful the U.S., with Alabama not acold behind. Mix that successful with COVID-19 inactive lingering and RSV, a respiratory unwellness impacting young kids...how would parents cognize the difference, particularly successful children.
“A batch of the symptoms look similar, betwixt COVID, flu and RSV, truthful it’s important, if you are having the symptoms, to speech to your child’s doc astir the things your kid is experiencing,” says Lockwood.
At Nu You Experience successful Columbus, wherever they tout earthy healing, proprietor Clarence Brown says determination are at-home remedies to support your small 1 well. “Sea moss definitely, flavored, due to the fact that if it’s not flavored, they won’t instrumentality it. It’s conscionable similar giving them cough syrup,” says Brown.
Brown says determination are casual ways to guarantee your kid takes the earthy way that could sound retired those symptoms.
“You tin driblet it successful a smoothie oregon whatever. Some radical bash it successful their food, arsenic agelong arsenic you get it successful them,” says Brown.
Whether you take accepted medicine oregon a earthy remedy, determination are immoderate preventative measures everyone should heed.
“The different things that you tin bash are the things we person been doing a lot, if you person a sneeze oregon cough, bash it successful your elbow, support a harmless region from different people, lavation your hands thoroughly, don’t interaction your look excessively overmuch oregon debar it arsenic overmuch arsenic you can,” says Lockwood.
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