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Increasing Seasonal illnesses-please be careful

Increasing cases of viral fever-cough-cold across the country. As we know due to ongoing winter temperatures are decreasing and this has lead to substantial rise in the cases of cough, cold, fever etc. The cases have gone up to almost 100 %. Though not unusual in this time of the year, still precautions are needed. Most the families are having one or more members affected by this. As this can be contagious, preventive measure definitely helps. One needs to be extra careful in patients of extremes of age like children and senior citizens in the society. This is the class of patient who needs proper care during the episode to prevent complications. Common points that will help patients to recover faster: ·          Avoid visiting crowded places. ·          Drink proper fluids, hot liquids are better ·          Take proper diet: Any home based light diet i...