I feel sorry for the kids who have caught swine flu, but for the rest of us prevention is on the top of our agenda. I read an article in the Wall Street Journal which gives a lot of helpful facts such as:
"Even the scariest bugs can usually be vanquished through old-fashioned hand washing. Regardless of what you touch, make sure you clean your hands on a regular basis so you have a better chance of not delivering bacteria into your body through your mouth, nose and eyes or a cut on your skin, Dr. Bell says. He advises thorough and frequent hand cleaning-which may be needed 10 times or more daily depending on your activities-with soap or alcohol-based hand sanitizer."
Apparently 80% of the infectious diseases we get are transferred by our hands so I use Infectiguard sanitizer now. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtCjEzoj5Ks
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Getting the shot at 6 weeks pregnant??
- jsmart
on Dec. 4, 2009 at 3:38 AM