{"id":334767,"date":"2017-11-13T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/get-ready-for-a-miserable-cold-and-flu-season\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T02:20:33","slug":"get-ready-for-a-miserable-cold-and-flu-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/get-ready-for-a-miserable-cold-and-flu-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for a Miserable Cold and Flu Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I never get sick. I have a killer immune system. Usually, the common cold and the annual flu pass me by but this last year I wasn\u2019t so fortunate. With no flu survival plan in place, The flu hit me hard and I was knocked off my feet for more than 2 weeks. At one point, my fever was high enough that I was delirious, giving my husband crazy instructions for plugging in a heating pad, as my whole body was wracked with violent shivering.<\/p>\n

What was funny is that I knew what I was saying made no sense, I knew I was delirious, and I still kept talking crazy talk. Thank God my husband has a good sense of humor!<\/p>\n

Symptoms of the flu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I knew I had a case of the flu when my symptoms became very extreme, very quickly, although for some people, symptoms of the cold can be confused with those of the flu.
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It\u2019s easy to confuse symptoms of the common cold with the flu, but in general, flu symptoms are simply worse. The flu comes with a fever, severe body aches, a deep cough, violent chills, severe fatigue \u2014 truly miserable symptoms. A cold isn\u2019t a whole lot of fun, either, but those symptoms will be milder \u2014 runny nose, sore throat, plenty of sneezing, body aches, and mild fatigue. Once symptoms cross the line from feeling \u201cunder the weather\u201d, to \u201cjust kill me now\u201d, you probably have the flu.<\/p>\n

Putting together a Flu Survival Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I never get sick. I have a killer immune system. Usually, the common cold and the annual flu pass me by but this last year I wasn\u2019t so fortunate. With no flu survival plan in place, The flu hit me hard and I was knocked off my feet for more than 2 weeks. At one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}