It’s back!! Cold and flu season is back and it’s here with a vengeance! I don’t know if it’s the strange fall then summer, then fall again weather we have been having, or if my little family has just been terribly unlucky, but for the last two weeks we’ve not been sharing the love, we’ve been sharing the Kleenex and cold medicine!
“According to Health Canada, in a typical year, up to an estimated 25 per cent or about 8.6 million Canadians come down with the seasonal flu.” When your entire family gets knocked down by a virus, the best way to get through it is to be prepared for it in the first place! Having a few favourite (and essential) cold remedies stocked in the house can make a difference between survival with a smile and true misery.
Shoppers Drug Mart has generously offered one of my readers a chance to win a stocked Cold and Flu Defense Kit to help prevent the flu and manage those cold symptoms when they do occur!
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soup and lot’s of liquid
Eat healthy and wash hands frequenly.
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lots of rest
The boyfriend makes a home made hot toddy of Tea, honey, lemon and tylenol. Better then any store bought remedy for aches and pains.
For our home tea and honey work really well.
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lots of rest and nasal rinses
Sleep works, if you can. When my nose will not let me breathe I have resorted to Vicks Vapour Rub just underneath my nose to allow me to sleep. I know you are not to do this but I am not sure why!
Washing hands fanatically
WOW, what a great prize pack!!! I sure could use this, sooner than later, as someone in my household has just come down with an upper-respiratory ailment (and I’m hearing people cough and cough wherever I go). 🙁
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