Health & Well-Being • January 2010 13
Easy Ways to Combat
Cold and Flu Season
(MS) -- Winter is upon us once again. flu when they spend the
With winter comes the holiday workday in their office or
season, some snowfall, a New Year, traveling for business.
and, of course, flu season. Few issues
However, thanks to the
have gripped the headlines more
Internet and GoToMyPC,
this year than the flu, as more and
parents of sick children or
more strands of the flu appear each
even just workers hoping to
year, wreaking havoc on the nation's
avoid the flu can safeguard
schools and offices.
themselves from the winter
Flu shots are often the first line of sick season while still getting
defense against the flu. But even those their work done. Whether
who have received a flu shot can still you're working from home
find themselves battling the cold and or even the doctor's waiting
flu. Adults and children alike spend room, it's easy to gain fast
so much time in the classroom or and convenient access to
office that it's hard to make it through your own files, programs,
the winter without battling some type network resources, and
of illness. However, there are ways to e-mail in a matter of
flu! Now, getting well doesn't need to
combat cold and flu season without seconds from any location connected
mean getting behind on your work.
missing a beat this winter. to the Internet. Instead of heading into
• Wash your hands. Germs often
the office or downloading a bunch
spread through our hands, as hands
of your files onto a laptop, simply • Stay hydrated. Drinking water is
come into daily contact with germs
use GoToMyPC to work from the highly beneficial at all times of the
whenever we touch doorknobs,
comforts of a home computer while year, but even more so during cold and
sneeze or cough into our hands. While
taking care of sick family members, flu season. Water flushes your system,
it might seem simple, washing hands
yourself, or just avoiding the germs including the poisons that might enter
thoroughly is a highly effective means
that congregate in the nation's office the body during cold and flu season.
to stopping the spread of germs. It also
buildings during cold and flu season. Each individual is different, but
helps to sneeze or cough into a tissue
Everything on your work computer doctors often recommend drinking
or handkerchief, or immediately wash
will be at your fingertips, just as if eight 8-ounce glasses of water each
hands after sneezing or coughing. In
you were at the office. Best of all, day to maintain or achieve optimal
addition, wash hands whenever you
it's so easy to use that no training is health.
arrive at home, school or the office.
needed.
• Get outdoors. While the weather
This can help remove any germs that You can sign up anytime for a 60- outside might be frightful, it's still
might have attached themselves to day account at no charge. Simply beneficial to get outdoors and
your hands while you were out and visit http://www.gotomypc.com/ breathe some fresh air. Central
about. webcommuting. The program installs heating dries the body out, making
• Work from home. Parents often find
automatically on the computer that it more vulnerable to cold and flu
themselves in a bind when their kids
you want to be able to use remotely, viruses. In addition, because few
inevitably fall victim to the cold or flu
such as your office computer -- and people go outside during the cold
during the winter months. This often
it's as secure as online banking. Now, weather, germs tend to gather inside
leads to one parent staying home
getting well doesn't need to mean before circulating among those who
from work and using a personal day
getting behind on your work. Tip: spend ample time indoors. Even if
to do so. Even if kids manage to stay
Continue to enjoy the time-saving it's cold, bundle up and get outdoors
healthy through the winter, parents
convenience of working remotely to breathe some fresh air during cold
are just as susceptible to cold and
from home or anywhere, even when and flu season.
you're not sidelined by a cold or the
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