Don't bring home the flu or cold germs along with your groceries

Staying healthy while shopping.

Some stores like Fred Meyers and Albertson's offer disinfectant wipes at the front doors so you can wipe down the handle of your shopping cart. Don't be embarrassed to use them. Take the extra two minues to wipe it down. If you need convincing take a look at the other shoppers some things you just don't want to share.


Don't eat the from communal free sample bin. Especially, the unattended free samples. You can avoid both the extra calories and the germs.

Be smart and healthy. 

Avoid the flu at work

Staying healthy at work.

We spend the majority of our time at work.  We work in enviorments that are out of our control. While we want to be healthy, we also don't want to be know as the germaphob of the company following everyone around with a can of lysol.

Tips to stay swine flu and cold free at work.

Surfaces you can easily disinfect at work:

• phone,
• headsets,
• door handles,
• pens and,
  
• keyboards.

Break any bad habits you have of putting pens into your mouth. I catch myself chewing on the end of a pen so be aware.

Sneeze into your elbow. It use to be the norm to cover your mouth with your hand but know it is a no-no. Cover your mouth with the crook of your arm. Or use a tissue.


Breath some fresh air.
Get outside. Take a walk around the building. Indoor pollutants are usually higher in buildings plus the added exercise will refresh your mind and body. Even short strolls will relive stress, increase blood flow and burn calories. Try it before you reach for caffeine, sugar or utube.

Wash your hands. Wash your hands.
Wash your hands and use soap. The recommended is 20 seconds. (I don't know why some people don't)

Since you can't bring a vaporizor to work.


Drink something warm. Herbal tea is great at work. Especially if you run cold. The hot vapors off your steaming mug of tea will help open sinuses and hydrate membranes. Plus the hot mug will warm up cold hands.

Staying healthy and avoid the flu, clean the surfaces we neglet the most

What you can do to avoid getting the flu this season by wiping down the things we touch the most and clean the least.

Cleaning these high traffice surfaces can be your best defense in keeping your family healthy.

Use pre-moist towelettes for disinfecting surfaces. Use several and remember to clean from the top down.  Start with your toilet handle first then do the seat. Never retrace your steps with the same wipe, don't re-wipe the handle after you have cleaned the seat. Use one towelette for all the door handles in you house and a fresh one for all the light switches.
Don't forget these high traffic surfaces:

• keys, 
• fridge door handles,
• remotes,
• light switches, 
• cell phones, 
• keyboards (use caution and follow manufactures care instructions when cleaning electronic devices), 
• toaster switches, 
• can openers and
  
• microwave oven keypads. 

Some things are not practical to clean like money. But use an anti-bacterial product after handling money or giving your card to store employees to swipe.

Tip: if you do work handle plastic cards please do not put them to your mouth. While checking into a hotel in Indio, California, the employee helping us used my card to cover a burp.  Normally I'm not squeamish but I took it back by the edges and if it had not been my main form of payment for the rest of the trip, I would have burned it, but I did douse it with antibacterial product careful to avoid the magnet strip. Needless to say after we saw our room and the breakfast bar, we checked right back out!

Wash your hands before you eat. I keep several antibacterial products handy in the car to wash my hands when I buy fast food, I can't resist eating french fries in the car on the way home.  I also use them after I buy gas.