Preparing for college means preparing to stay healthy, especially this year when the swine flu threatens. Staying healthy means:
- More frequent hand washing (26 seconds with soap and water) and use of hand sanitizers which are placed throughout campus and which should also be carried on your person.
- A new ‘cover your cough and sneezes' protocol: cough into your sleeve, NOT your hands.
- Getting a reasonable amount of sleep, good nutrition and regular exercise.
- Getting a seasonal flu vaccine from your doctor or the Wellness Center if you are too far to return to your own doctor.
- Staying home when you are ill* until 24 hours AFTER you are symptom and fever free without the use of fever reducing medication.
- Having a personal emergency plan: a way to return home or to a place off campus where you can be cared for if you become seriously ill.
