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To Avoid Catching a Cold or Flu1. The number one best way to prevent the flu is to get a flu shot every year.

2. Keep your mucous membranes (nostrils, mouth, eyes) moist with proper hydration.

3. Clean your hands. When soap and warm water are not available, alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers (at least 60% alcohol) may be used.

4. Avoid touching your face, eyes, nose, or mouth.

5. Drink plenty of fluids. Water flushes your system, washing out the poisons as it rehydrates you. (How can you tell if you're getting enough liquid? If the color of your urine runs close to clear, you're getting enough. If it's deep yellow, you need more fluids.)

6. Get fresh air. A regular dose of fresh air is important, especially in cold weather when central heating dries you out. (Also, during cold weather more people stay indoors, which means more germs are circulating in crowded, dry rooms.)

7. Some foods might also help. Fruits and vegetables have natural chemicals that help your body use their vitamins. Some studies have shown that eating a daily cup of low-fat yogurt can reduce your susceptibility to colds by 25 percent. Researchers think the beneficial bacteria in yogurt may stimulate production of immune system substances that fight disease.

8. Avoiding cigarette smoke is also good. Statistics show that heavy smokers get more severe colds and more frequent ones. Even being around smoke profoundly weakens your immune system. Smoke dries out your mucous membranes.

9. Avoid people who are sick.

10. Some people recommend that you take 1/4 tsp of Diamond V - XPC Yeast Culture every day, which is the powder they give to race horses to keep them from catching colds. See the related link below.

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Rest: Sleep AT LEAST 10 hours per day. This is very important because your body needs to get as much rest as possible.

Hygiene: Keep clean by washing (bath/shower), washing hands after using the loo and brushing teeth, cutting finger/toe nails and washing hair and brushing it with good shampoo/conditioner.

Water: Make sure you drink a lot of water through out the day: it's important to keep a working body hydrated throughout the day.

Food: Eat 3 meals per day. Breakfast is most important, and dinner least. Eat at east 5 fruit/veg per day for a healthy body.

Now and Again: Every now and again, go for check ups at your local doctor to see if anything is wrong.

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The number one way to prevent diseases is to wash your hands at least 20 seconds with soap and warm water after using the bathroom. Our hands pass many diseases along the pathogen infection path. Also avoid touching mucous membranes, your nose, mouth, ears or eyes as they are a portal for transmission of infection.

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There are many ways you can prevent yourself from getting sick. One way people thought it was an easier way was to get the illness first then your body is amuned to it and it would be harder for you to get sick from that specific illness. But now there are many ways you can prevent with medications and vaccines with a doctor or hospital. You can find vaccines at a local pharmacy near you.

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The best way to avoid getting sick is to wash your hands. Doing this will protect you from illness-causing microbes. Other obvious ways are to stay away from people who are sick and to dress appropriately in low temperatures.

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1.Disinfecting everything you touch.

2.Living in Solitary Confinement

3.Living in the dark so germs don't spread.Although this is helps kill germs, your family can have horrible evolutionary features if done for generations without sunlight

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If your are sick DO NOT eat of drink anything for six hours if you really need a drink just put some fresh water in your mouth and dont swallowit

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There many ways to prevent you from falling sick: for example, a healthy balance of fruit and veg is a start. Taking supplements such as vitamins and exercising for at least an hour a day.

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wash your hands frequently

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