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6 Tips for Avoiding the Flu with Antibacterial Spray

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The flu is rampant and severe this year. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported widespread, elevated flu activity in 39 states with 4.6 million flu illnesses, 39,000 hospitalizations and 2,100 deaths. While the 2018-19 season was bad, this year’s looks like it may be worse, with consistent growth above the national baseline and in comparison to last year’s activity. It‘s time to load up on a powerful combatant like Clear Gear, the premier antibacterial spray for everything from athletic gear to first responder equipment.

While it’s impossible to guarantee immunity, here are some ways to avoid the flu.

Wash Your Hands After Exposure to High-Touch Areas

Frequent hand washing throughout the day—with soap and water for at least 20 seconds—is one of the best ways to lower your flu risk. If you’re in a communal area or touch things like a light switch or door handle, wash your hands immediately afterwards. If you can’t get to a sink, use a hand sanitizer with a minimum of 60 percent alcohol.

Get a Flu Shot

According to the CDC, one of the best ways to protect yourself from influenza is with an annual flu shot. While it doesn’t protect you from every strain, if you do contract the flu, it is less likely to be severe or lead to pneumonia, which causes many flu-related deaths.

Don’t Touch Your Face

Avoid touching your face, especially your mouth and nose, during flu season. While touching an infected surface won’t cause the flu, if you touch your mouth or nose afterwards, you can transfer the virus and help it reach the mucous membrane in your nose or mouth.

Clean High-Touch Surfaces Daily with Antibacterial Spray

A flu virus can live on inanimate objects and without a host for a day or so. If someone in your household contracts the flu or is exposed to someone else who has it, they can carry the virus into your home. Most people are contagious a day or two before they show symptoms, so it’s best to sanitize high-touch surfaces every day. Disinfect surfaces and items like light switches, door handles and remote controls with Clear Gear antibacterial spray every day.

Keep a Distance

Do your best to avoid anyone who is coughing or sneezing. The flu is spread through droplets that contaminate the air when someone sneezes or coughs. Make it a goal to stay at least three feet away whenever possible. Even if someone says they are not sick, it’s impossible to know for sure, so don’t take the chance. What sounds like a benign cough could be the start of a flu-related illness.

Create a Protocol For Sickies In-House

If someone in your household does contract the flu, protect everyone else in the family. In an ideal scenario, everyone in the house should wear face masks, but if that’s not realistic, then try to at least have the caretaker wear one. If no one wants to suit up at home, then whoever is taking care of the sick person should wear surgical gloves to avoid contact with contaminated surfaces, and they should spray down surfaces with Clear Gear antibacterial spray.

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