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There are precautions that every person can take to help prevent swine flu. Like the regular flu, swine flu is a virus that can be spread by contact with infected individuals. While there isn’t a guarantee that you won’t become ill, there are several things you can do to increase your chances of remaining healthy.

First, wash your hands often. This is the most important thing you can do to stop the spread of this and other viruses. Keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer with you at all times. This is alcohol-based, so it’s good to use when a sink isn’t available. Even if you do use this, continue to wash your hands with soap and water throughout the day, especially before meals. In addition to having hand sanitizer, consider also carrying around sanitizing wipes to use on things such as grocery carts or public telephones.

The next step in keeping yourself healthy is to avoid sick people. Of course some people who appear healthy aren’t, but by avoiding sick people you’ll be distancing yourself from thousands of germs. Although this may seem like common sense, many people are so concerned with politeness that they will converse with someone sniffling and coughing. Don’t worry about offending anyone—your health is more important. read more »

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Candida has received a great deal of attention in recent years, and has earned a rather dubious reputation in the public mind. It is said to be the cause of an untold number of human ills. All manner of symptoms have been attributed to it, from temper outbursts to impotence. In fact, if you read through the nonmedical books on the subject you will find at least fifty different symptoms thus blamed on Candida. The medical community, on the other hand, is not so concerned. It recognises that Candida can cause oral, skin and genital infections, of course, but these respond very rapidly to treatment. It further recognises that patients with compromised immune systems are prone to more serious and widespread Candida infection. Apart from these clearly understood infections, doctors generally consider Candida to be an innocent bystander. Let’s take a closer look at this contentious issue.

What is Candida?
Candida is a family of yeast. In fact, it is a rather large family consisting of at least 200 different species, brothers and sisters, so to speak. The most important of these, from a human point of view, is Candida albicans. This yeast inhabits the mouth, gastrointestinal tract, vagina and skin of healthy humans. There is nothing unusual about this, for many micro-organisms inhabit our bodies in this way. The relationship we have with these, our resident microbes, is a symbiotic one: they scratch our back and we scratch theirs. We provide them with a place to live and nutrients to live on; and they, in return, provide us with several important services, including (i) assistance with digestion, (ii) provision of some vitamins, and (iii) some degree of protection from more harmful microbes. read more »

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