Nausea, pains and diarrhea.
If the thought of about five days of that makes you sick to your stomach----keep
reading.
You can act now to dodge the
Norovirus that's creeping in during this busy flu season.
Nurse practitioner Sam
Draude at Doctors Express in Beaufort stresses routine hand washing with warm
water--but also washing your food---particularly fruits and veggies before you
prepare and eat them.
"It's spread through
contaminated foods and liquids," Draude said.
"Don't share utensils, don't share drinks with people if you suspect
they're ill or you suspect you yourself are ill avoid sharing food with others
and also avoid preparing food for others."
This is not something to
play around with or that you can treat on your own. Draude says if you start getting symptoms,
get to a doctor right away.
"Typically the
medications that we get to treat nausea are prescription only so you have to
visit a medical provider to get something to treat the nausea," she said. "The idea is if we can treat the nausea- we
can get people to push those fluids."
The Centers for Disease Control
is reporting the Norovirus outbreak in 47 states. It's not only spread through
food but surfaces people touch--so keeping them clean with a bleach solution is
recommended.
While anyone can get this
virus, it is especially dangerous for the elderly and children.
The Norovirus leads to dehydration and
generally when people feel like they have to vomit--they don't want to drink
anything.
