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Posts Tagged ‘viral diseases’

The first step is to have a healthy lifestyle: healthy diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, avoiding risky behavior (smoking, excess alcohol), which allows for better overall health therefore more resistant to infection. Furthermore, it should follow the preventive vaccinations mandatory, or as recommended vaccinating the elderly against influenza.

We must also carefully take the medicines prescribed by a physician, reading systematically records accompanying rich information (side effects, interactions with other drugs, recommendations) and do not hesitate to question the doctor or pharmacist if in doubt. The effects may not be immediate, and must continue treatment until the end even if improvement and disappearance of symptoms, particularly in the case of antibiotics: the disappearance of symptoms means fewer germs, but not their disappearance, if treatment is stopped too early, they can redevelop and become resistant to the antibiotic.

Do not be surprised if the doctor did not prescribe antibiotics: they are not effective against viral diseases.