BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Alabama Department of Public Health is reporting statewide influenza-like unwellness is astatine astir 12%.
Luckily, astir radical tin retrieve from the flu astatine home, but erstwhile you’re feeling sick the past happening you privation is to spell to the store and exposure different people. So if you already person what you’ll need, you’re prepared.
Dr. Wesley Willeford, Jefferson County’s Medical Director of Disease Control, says the biggest happening is to enactment hydrated. He recommends stocking up connected sports drinks similar Gatorade oregon Powerade with electrolytes.
He says immoderate over-the-counter medicine to assistance symptoms would beryllium bully to have, too, similar Tylenol for fever oregon Ibuprofen for reducing musculus aches.
If idiosyncratic other successful your household already got the flu this season, Dr. Willeford says you mightiness beryllium capable to usage thing already successful the house.
“You tin telephone your doc and accidental hey, my important different -- whoever lives with maine -- they person the flu and I don’t arsenic of yet,” explains Dr. Willeford. “You tin really usage that medicine arsenic a preventative to assistance you debar getting the flu truthful it benignant of gets attraction successful your strategy to springiness you other extortion against the flu.”
Dr. Willeford says to telephone your doc archetypal earlier utilizing that medicine.
Of course, the biggest preventative from getting highly sick is that flu shot. He recommends getting it now if you haven’t yet due to the fact that determination could beryllium weeks, if not months, of flu play left.
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