{"id":333453,"date":"2025-12-24T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333453\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:19:09","slug":"isle-of-man-health-expert-on-how-to-deal-with-flu-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333453\/","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":333454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-333453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}