Colds, Flu and Probiotics

It’s that time a year again… Cold and flu season… I really really hate this time of year.

Today, I actually got a text message from Teladoc about how the flu has hit us here in Texas. I’ve always stressed whenever my kids have had the flu, but I especially stress when Peyton has the flu. I’m a big believer though in prevention. Since I’m not a big fan of taking medicine and I’m especially not a big fan of my kids taking medicine…I especially love to use all natural preventive products.

We are big believers in natural products.

In the last couple years we’ve really become very adamant on having probiotics. Couple months ago I wrote a blog about Klaire labs probiotics… We have become very big fans of their products, in our home.

With the flu being rampant everywhere… we have two choices…. we can either really prepare our bodies and try to build up our immune systems to fight off colds and/or the flu, or we can just sit in our house 24/7 and never get around anyone. : (  Since the later is not what we wanna do, we will do the former! 🙂

Many times we don’t equate probiotics with the flu and/or colds… But did you know that probiotics can really help with so many things…. including the flu and cold season?

Here are just a few ways that probiotics can help you fight off colds and flu!

One way is probiotics can activate the defense in our immunity system, and help fight off the common cold and flu… It is also believed the probiotics can help fight the frequency that you get respiratory infection such as The common cold.

They can also help when you get diarrhea with the flu, probiotics can help lower your chances and lower the frequency and severity of the cold and flu by building up the good bacteria in your system and fighting the bad bacteria.

When your gut isn’t feeling well… Your whole body becomes run down… So using proper probiotics, can really make a difference during this cold and flu season.

This is not to say that only probiotics will help it, but if you’re anything like us.. in our household you definitely want to do everything you can to try to either avoid and/or lower the severity of a cold and/or flu.

This is especially important to me with Peyton, because I do not like to give Peyton medicine.. unless I absolutely have to.

So building up his immune system and getting rid of the bad bacteria in his system, and replacing it with good bacteria by having awesome probiotics definitely is awesome. I am also taking them because when Mom is sick… nothing is good! : )

Here’s a link that you can use to get your own probiotics from Klaire labs

Here is also a blog that I wrote about the probiotics before.

As always… I want to make a disclaimer… I am not nor i pretend to be a medical professional. I am only passing along what we do in our house. Also, please note… I do research before I ever give anything to Peyton and the rest of us… so I don’t just pull this out of the air… I highly recommend you do the same.

As always, thank you so much for reading my blog and I look forward to any and all comments from you…

Watch for my self-care blog on Wednesday… Where I talk about some self-care ideas that Peyton uses… But are awesome for all of us. Here’s to a healthy cold and flu season

AwesomismMom

 

 

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