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Elderberry juice, all red fruit and preventive use of zinc are the best in fighting viruses
28 Feb 2023Only once in ten years you can get sick with flu, which is about 4-5 times in a lifetime. Everything else is a flu-like illness – said dr Nestorović
The past period was marked by a strong flu season, and since children are the most vulnerable and often the largest group of patients, prof. Dr. Branimir Nestorović, a pulmonologist and allergologist at the University Clinic “Tiršova” gave some advice to parents.
He was a guest in the “Jutarnji program” on Pink TV and spoke about flu, viruses, natural remedies and whether there is a purpose to vaccinate children against influenza.
“Flu is a popular disease. Last year, the results of some new research changed our opinion on the flu. Although you have certainly said many times in your life that you have a flu, in most cases it wasn’t true. Only once in ten years you can get sick with flu, which is about 4-5 times in a lifetime. Everything else is a flu-like illness, ” said the doctor.
Doctor Nestorović also said that the story of the flu is always a bit exaggerated and that everyone has to have a certain number of infections in life, but only in rare cases, that is a real flu.
Talking about how viruses spread and survive at low temperatures, Dr. Nestorović said that viruses have a certain layer that protects them in winter and that can live up to half an hour in the temperatures below zero. In summer, they can survive for 10 hours.
“If someone coughed and picked up this newspaper, and you took them in the next ten hours, you would get sick,” he explains.
Nestorović also said that research has shown that the flu virus as such does not actually do anything. It activates our immune system so that it turns against us.
“Elderberry juice, all red fruit and preventive use of zinc are the best in fighting viruses,” the doctor recommends.
When it comes to children and high temperature, he said that if a child is in a good mood and has higher temperature, it is insignificant. Only if a child is slow, sleepy, lying...
