{"id":201600,"date":"2025-12-24T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:35:06","slug":"isle-of-man-health-expert-on-how-to-deal-with-flu-over-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201600\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Man health expert on how to deal with flu over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If someone in your household has developed flu-like symptoms, most cases can be managed at home with rest and simple remedies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To ease discomfort, alternating common pain relief medicines can help. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can alternative paracetamol and ibuprofen as per the packing, which will reduce both fever and muscle ache,&#8221; explains Professor Ross Keat, a consultant for Public Health Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also advised that people should remain at home until they are fully recovered and no longer reliant on medication to control symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Children may remain infectious slightly longer than adults, so extra caution is needed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most people are most infectious on days three to five of being unwell,&#8221; he explains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Children can stay infectious for maybe a day or so longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If symptoms worsen, breathing becomes difficult or somebody is in a high-risk group, they should seek medical advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If someone in your household has developed flu-like symptoms, most cases can be managed at home with rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-201600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}