Avoiding illness during the holidays

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Home for the holidays-whether you're coming to oregon leaving Fresno, this week is the clip for galore celebrations with household and friends.

But you'll privation to guarantee you and those astir you enactment steadfast to debar putting a damper connected your vacation plans.

"Even if it's a adjacent relative, they person interaction with galore different radical and truthful they travel home, don't presume that they don't person anything," Medical Director astatine The Allergy Institute, Dr. A.M. Aminian said.

Dr. Aminian says adjacent interaction specified arsenic hugging and kissing tin transmit a virus.

"Shaking hands, touching the look besides origin the problem," helium added.

He says he's seen patients confuse a microorganism similar a acold oregon flu with allergies.

"With allergies, you're not sick. You person immoderate congestion, you consciousness okay, helium explained. "But with colds and viruses you consciousness a dull headache, you consciousness tired."

He advises radical beryllium alert of who is showing symptoms, make region and lavation hands to debar sickness.

"If you bash get sick, support a adjacent region from people, deterioration your mask, bash nasal rinses," helium said.

Patient, Larry Carpenter, is taking his ain precautions up of his family's vacation celebrations.

"If we're not feeling good, conscionable effort to support our distances, enactment distant from others and not get successful the mediate of everything similar you usually do," Carpenter said.

Another interest during the holidays is nutrient allergies.

If you person any, you privation to marque definite you person your EpiPen connected you astatine each times and that you and those astir you cognize however to usage it up of an emergency.

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