5 tips to help protect your kids from the swine flu

mommaofsun, I totally understand what you are saying. It IS a pain in the butt to be the only one in the household who cares about the rest of the family's health. Believe me, I was in your shoes although I was a teenager living at home with a family of people who enjoyed wallowing in their bad health habits.

Keeping yourself home unless it is 100% necessary and keeping your home clean, washing hands and getting proper rest is what is going to help prevent swine flu in your home.
The best way is to keep kitchens and bathrooms as clean as possible. Using bleach water to clean counter tops, floors and surfaces like tubs and showers, toilets.
Wash hands!!
Avoid children and adults that are coughing or appear sick.
Avoid crowded areas in public.
If you start getting symptoms of the flu or an illness, call the doctor.
Eating vegetarian, raw or some other hippie diet is NOT going to keep you from being sick anymore than what store you shop in or not. That is just idiotic as an ideal.

If you think a raw diet is ridiculous POOH BEAR obviously you know nothing about it. Eating raw especially fruits and vegetables helps to boost the immunity which can possibly prevent you from coming down with a communicable sickness. If you know nothing about a subject, it's was not to pretend as if you do.

As for helping kids not get it. MAKE them be sanitary. Children are some of the most unsanitary demographic around which is why they're often sick. Proper hygiene is important and is not an option.

I will be sure to follow all of these as I always do. It's kind of a pain in the butt with the "cover your mouth when you cough" rule, when your hubby won't even do it.

I don't see that my other comments posted, but what Erin said really kind of ticked me off. If your comment was directed at me, maybe you should re-read mine. What my comments means is it is a pain in the butt trying to get my kids to do it everytime they cough---"cover your mouth when you cough guys" and their response "dad doesn't". THAT is the pain in the butt. My grown man of a hubby should be the other lead by example person in the house, not just me. I do agree with you, when you said, it shouldn't be an option. 100% he11 yeah.

Covering your mouth when you cough isn't a pain in the butt- it's a common courtesy to others. As another poster said, proper hygiene should not be an option- espeically for adults.

People!!! STOP FREAKING OUT!!! God, you're like the girls at school. SOmebody isn't as peppy as normal (bvecause they stayed up late, mind you) and they all start screaming and hollering about swine flu! Our flu medicines DO work on it. You should have your kids wash thier hands anyway.

being careful of the wholefoods stores since sometimes the big thing is not using pesticides, the food can still carry viruses and bacteria. But other than that, my children are eating raw fruits and vegetables! As long as they're not like, a year old, sounds fine to me!

Raw diet? Thats ridiculous. That would help prevent swine flu, yeah right. I think its too late for healthy eating to help anything. Im afraid to send my child to school. Im sure someone from his school has been to Mexico, or at least a relative has. The majority of the school is hispanic. What should I do? Send him and hope he doesnt get it. These are our kids we are talking about. I think the school should close at least for a week until we find out just how serious this really is.

I'm sure eating the right foods to help stay healthy is a great thing - but a common problem I am starting to see more on this blog site are people saying that raw foodism, vitamins, bottled water, or some other over the counter supplement is going to prevent the swine flu. I think it's irresponsible to give people a false sense of security. Pandemic viruses do NOT act like normal flu viruses. When they studied the avian flu they found that it caused the immune system to OVER react, so in that case having a healthy strong immune system is a double edged sword.

And right now, even the CDC nor the WHO knows how this virus is going to behave. Pandemic viruses are unpredictable and it can evolve suddenly. This *could* get worse. Yes, we need to take care of our bodies but we should NOT make unsubstantiated claims because they seem common sense and intuitive. Pandemic flu is anything BUT intuitive. It attacks healthy people in their prime.

viruse is dangerous. swine flu can even make pepole die.

If you were referring to me, it's a pain in the butt "when your hubby won't do it". Meaning, it's a pain in the butt to get my kids to do it, when they don't have their dad leading by example. Next time I'll simplify the sentence.

People keep *screaming* to other people to "calm down" - ironically, you aren't leading by example.

Nobody is "freaking out" or anything. It sounds like you need to get a grip yourself.

Has anyone else noticed that the people blowing this off sound just as frantic and panicked as the people blowing it out of proportion? They are ALL reacting out of complete ignorance.

Healthy eating would be a great start to prevent swine flu. Some kind of Raw Diet.

ohh gosh.......