Student Health and Wellness Center

By: Levina Entel, Health Center

 

TIPS FOR PREVENTING COLDS & FLU

(This information brought to you by the Spokane Regional Health District)

 

• Get a flu shot each year to prevent the flu. (Check the schedule below!)
• Wash your hands often with soap and warm water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose.  Quickly throw away used tissues, and then wash your hands.
• If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your sleeve/elbow – not into your hands.
• Regularly clean surfaces in your home that are touched often, like light switches, doorknobs, faucets, and appliance handles.
• Don’t share food, utensils, beverages, towels, lipstick, toys, cigarettes, or anything else that might become contaminated with germs.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.  Germs can spread by touching them.
• Avoid close contact with sick people.  Most germs are spread when a sick person coughs, sneezes, or talks.
• Stay at home if you have a cough or fever.
• Wear a mask in a medical office if asked.
• Always follow your doctor’s instructions and take your medicine as prescribed.

 

 

Our next scheduled Flu Shot Clinics will be:

 

• Tuesday, November 19^th in College Hall, The 1898 Room, from 11:30 to 2 p.m.
• Monday, November 25^th at the Crosby Student Center, Main Floor, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Tuesday, December 3^rd at the Crosby Student Center, Main Floor, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Students are always welcome to come by the Health Center for their flu shot, too.  We will continue to offer flu shots to students at $5 until supplies run out (usually sometime in November/December).  Refer to our website for Health Center Hours. www.gonzaga.edu/healthcenter