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Tips to Prevent Cold and Flu
Tuesday December 18 2007

1.  Wash Your Hands

2.  Don’t Cover Your Sneezes and Coughs With Your Hands; (use tissue or sleeve)

3.  Don’t Touch Your Face

4.  Don’t Expose Young Children or Immunosuppressed Children / Unnecessarily to Large       Crowds when Influenza is in the area

5.  Avoid Close Contact (holding, kissing) between infants and anyone who has a cold or flu

6.  Stay HOME FROM WORK or SCHOOL if you have the flu

7.  Don’t Share Anything That Goes Into the Mouth (cups, straws)

8.  Frequently Clean Commonly Touched Surfaces (door knob, refrigerator handle, phone, water faucets)

9.  Drink Plenty of Fluids

10. Exercise Regularly

11. Don’t Smoke

Jenny L. Workman
Program Manager-MU Campus
Healthy for Life
T.E. Atkins University of Missouri Wellness Program
205 Heinkel Building
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 884-1312
Direct Line: (573) 884-8125
Fax:(573) 884-3123

WorkmanJL@umsystem.edu

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