Protect yourself and others. Follow these flu prevention tips:
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1. Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
Influenza is thought to spread mainly person to person through droplets transmitted when infected people cough or sneeze. Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, or with an alcohol-based hand cleaner, especially after you cough or sneeze, and after all exposures to sick people or animals.2. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
That's how germs are spread.3. If ill, stay at home and limit your contact with other people.
4. Inform your doctor if you or someone in your family becomes ill with flu-like symptoms.
Especially if you have been around pigs, traveled to an area with a known swine flu outbreak, or had contact with someone diagnosed with swine flu.5. Stay at home if you have a fever above 100ºF (37.8ºC) along with:
- a sore throat and/or cough;
- any more severe respiratory symptoms.
6. Do not go to work and do not send children to school if they are sick with these or any additional symptoms.
7. Carefully follow medical instructions.
If you are a parent visiting a child in the hospital who has known or suspected swine flu you will be given specific instructions about:
- How to use personal protective equipment.
- How to wear gowns, gloves and masks.
- Always washing your hands after leaving the patient's bedside.
8. If ill, do not come into the hospital to visit children.
If you are sick or have any of these symptoms: a runny nose, congestion, watery eyes, or a new or unknown rash, you will not be allowed to visit.9. Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
