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Teach Your Kids to Avoid Swine Flu

June 16, 2009

School is a place of learning and fun for your children, but the current times has made it a melting pot of diseases.  With swine flu practically in everybody’s doorstep, we should take extra vigilance in keeping our child’s health a priority.  This highly communicable disease is spread person-to-person and can easily infect a large population such as our children that go to school.

Although some schools has taken the initiative to announce the suspension of classes in the event of an infection.   The responsibility still lies with the parents to safeguard their children’s health.  Teaching your kids good personal hygiene practices is one way to prevent infection.  Couple this with instructions on etiquette and you may just win the battle yet against swine flu or with any communicable disease for that matter.  Children should be taught how to properly wash their hands with soap and water and if possible, also, how to use an alcohol based sanitizer.

Prevention is truly better than cure, and arming our children with practical knowledge that they will be using for their whole lives is one way to help safeguard their health.

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