Santa Clause Makes Changes to Visits

Santas this year may be making changes to their routine visits to protect themselves and others from the H1N1 virus.

Overweight persons have been linked to severe attacks of the swine flu, since Santa Claus is usually overweight or obese it poses added health risks.

Associations for Santas are taking actions. One in particular was a seminar recently in Philedelphia on swine flu.

Some suggestions are:

• Keeing sick kids away
• Placing hand sanitizer stations around malls
• Santas washing their suits more often ( every day)
• Santas to get all the flu shots including the H1N1 vaccine.
• Santas using hand sanitizers and setting an example to kids.

There was a case mentioned in which a kid too sick to be at school was seen fit to be with Santa. This year sick children will be found unfit to sit with Santa or shake his hand.

Alternative Medicine Is Used Against Swine flue

Alternative therapies used to fight flus and influenza are considered good against the H1N1 virus.

Alternative medicine practitioners reported that with herbal remedies and good nutrition people without the vaccine can avoid the swine flu. Some herbal remedies mentioned are: astragalus, geisemium and cecchetto.

A healthy immune system can be a defense against many illnessses including colds and flus. It would therefore make sense that if these herbal remedies work by building the immune system, they would protect against the swine flu. F0r those whose immune system is already suppressed this may be a challenged.

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