{"id":196,"date":"2007-03-01T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/03\/01\/flu-survival-kit\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T16:46:28","slug":"flu-survival-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/03\/flu-survival-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu Survival Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcynorman.net\/2007\/02\/28\/moose-fever\">Moose Fever<\/a> that befell what seems to be half the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernvoice.ca\">North\u00adern\u00adVoice<\/a> attendees (although to be fair, lots of oth\u00ader people I know in Van\u00adcouver are down with the flu as well, it seems par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly vir\u00adu\u00adlent this year) is slowly loosen\u00ading its grip. It\u2019s more than a little dis\u00adcon\u00adcert\u00ading when you go through the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bchealthguide.org\/kbase\/topic\/major\/hw122012\/symptoms.htm\" title=\"influenza symptoms\">symp\u00adtoms<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bchealthguide.org\/\" title=\"BC health guide\"><span class=\"caps\">BC<\/span> Health Guide<\/a> and real\u00adize you have all of them, plus a few more (what\u2019s with the tin\u00adnit\u00adus?). So now, the res\u00adol\u00adu\u00adtions for next time, aka the flu sur\u00adviv\u00adal&nbsp;kit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get the flu shot; even if it does\u00adn\u2019t always work, it prob\u00adably does often enough to be worthwhile<\/li>\n<li>make sure the medi\u00adcine cup\u00adboard always has the basics: ibupro\u00adfen, phlegm loosen\u00ader (pure Guaifen\u00ades\u00adin works best for me), decon\u00adgest\u00adant (pseudoep\u00adhedrine for when the cough no longer brings up phlegm but the ears are still plugged and I have a sinus head\u00adache), cough sup\u00adpress\u00adant, acetaminophen\/paracetamol (in case the fever responds bet\u00adter to that than with ibuprofen)<\/li>\n<li>herb\u00adal teas help a lot: ginger and lem\u00adon, cam\u00ado\u00admile,&nbsp;mint<\/li>\n<li>get <b>lots<\/b> of tissues<\/li>\n<li>keep a few days worth of easy-to-pre\u00adpare food around. Cook\u00ading from scratch is nice, but not when you can\u00ad\u2019t stand up for very&nbsp;long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now all I have to do is remem\u00adber to read this list before the next flu sea\u00adson starts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moose Fever that befell what seems to be half the North\u00adern\u00adVoice attendees (although to be fair, lots of oth\u00ader people I know in Van\u00adcouver are down with the flu as well, it seems par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly vir\u00adu\u00adlent this year) is slowly loosen\u00ading its grip. It\u2019s more than a little dis\u00adcon\u00adcert\u00ading when you go through the list \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/03\/flu-survival-kit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cFlu Sur\u00adviv\u00adal&nbsp;Kit\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}