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No, it’s not the one in your mind…, neither FireFox. I was referring to an advocacy to Fight Flu…., got you there

Summer is indeed around with the humidity a little inconvenient. I was watching the late night news last week of February when PAGASA announced the early arrival of summer. But I also find it strange that the weather experts are also expecting occasional rains and at least one  typhoon per month in a supposedly dry season. Weird climate, courtesy of the global warming.

With the climate change, comes not only disruption of the regular weather cycle, but also the adaptation of different micro organisms to it’s new adverse environment. If you’ve seen the film documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, the possibility of developing new strains of virus was discussed as a result of the warmer earth.  It was kinda alarming….  in fact just this month, some kids of my office mates, and even my daughter was downed by a flu virus. When I visited their school, I was informed that a few more were absent because of flu.

Flu is a hassle, and if an adult is downed by it’s virus, it results to loss of productive time and money. But it is more difficult when a child catches the virus because it can lead to serious complications. And given the proliferation of junk food and kids not getting the right nutrients, chances are, their immune system will not be able to fight it.

So how do we protect our kids?

While we don’t have control over the virus neither the global warming, we can take precaution by doing the following:

1. Keep your home and surroundings  clean.
2. Prepare and serve balance meal and healthy foods.
3. Take Vitamins supplement.
4. Get a flu shot.

Flu shots are largely ignored in the past but gaining grounds lately, thanks to the advocacy of the government and private sector. Sanofi Pasteur, has taken  the advocacy into a higher level. Agressive on it’s multi-media campaign,  advising the public, specially parents to take the flu shots for themselves and their children before the wet season.

For 2 or 3 years now, I am availing of flu shots courtesy of my former employer, except this year.  This year, I received my flu shot, and my son got his too, courtesy of Sanofi Pasteur. The brand of the flu vaccine is Vaxigrip. We experienced no adverse side effect, except of course, the slight heaviness and numbness of the arm where the shot was administered.

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