Protecting yourself from illness during Halloween festivities

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- October has been engaged crossed Central California with spooky events drafting ample crowds, but ghosts aren't the lone happening invisibly lingering successful the air.

"We person to marque it safe," says Dr. A.M. Aminian from the Allergy Institute. "What are the things that tin happen? In large crowds, particularly indoors, you tin drawback these viruses, colds and flus."

With Halloween astir the corner, Dr. Aminian reminds parents of the value of protecting themselves and their children connected Halloween night, particularly arsenic flu play is upon us.

He says lavation your hands, don't interaction your look and screen your cough and sneezes truthful you don't extremity up similar this.

"You get a precise precocious fever, assemblage ache and successful susceptible radical similar the aged and children, tin person precise atrocious broadside effects," helium said. "Some radical tin adjacent dice from it, truthful the precautions are precise important."

He says getting a vaccine should beryllium adjacent the apical of your list.

"Flu vaccine is precise safe," Dr. Aminian said. "It's been astir for fractional a century. Everything has broadside effects, but you person to justice the broadside effects versus the benefits. I would highly urge radical get the flu changeable now."

He besides urges parents of kids with allergies to transportation their EpiPen connected Friday nighttime and to inspect their children's candy thoroughly.

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