{"id":1496,"date":"2012-02-07T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T19:46:00","slug":"1496","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2012\/02\/07\/1496\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Cold &#038; Flu Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cold-flu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1498 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cold-flu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have tools in our being health tool box that we can use to help us stay healthy as possible in this difficult season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wash those hands!\u00a0 Washing hands with soap and water remove bacteria that can cause the common &#8220;cold&#8221; and flu.\u00a0 Antibacterial liquid hand soap is the best to use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use warm water.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the soap covers all surfaces of your hands &#8211; pay special attention to the areas around your fingernails and under your fingernails&#8230;Germs love to hide!<\/li>\n<li>Friction and the soap work together to remove the bacteria off the surface of you hands.\u00a0 Wash them for several minutes to get the maximum effect.<\/li>\n<li>Rinse them thoroughly removing all the soap completely.<\/li>\n<li>Dry you hands with a clean dry paper towel and use a clean dry paper towel to turn off the &#8220;dirty faucets&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get a Flu Shot every year.\u00a0 Your best defense agains the flu is not to get it!<\/p>\n<p>Get plenty of\u00a0 rest to keep your resistance against disease efficient as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Drink plenty of fluids to keep you body functioning at maximum potential.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your house surfaces that you touch as clean as possible.<\/p>\n<p>If you do get sick, cover you mouth and nose when you cough and sneeze and wash your hands afterwards.\u00a0 If no soap and water is available, then use a hand sanitizer available at most stores.\u00a0 The alcohol free hand sanitizers will not dry your hands out so much!\u00a0 If you are really sick&#8230;use those sick days at work to minimize getting your co-workers sick and see you MD if\u00a0 you are not getting any better and\/or you develop a fever that persists.<\/p>\n<p>Lets stay as healthy as possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have tools in our being health tool box that we can use to help us stay healthy as possible in this difficult season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-health-care-educational-series","category-healthy-links","category-mind-body-and-spirit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6ZZxW-1496","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}