Health and Wellness Expert Advises on Strep Throat and Other Seasonal Maladies

Dr. Shoshana and her team focus on strep throat, colds and the flu in this month's issue of Tips for Health. The online newsletter, a top source for health information online, focuses on a wide range of health problems and offers concrete solutions.

September 29, 2005 – Dr. Shoshana, expert on health and wellness issues, helps readers ready themselves for the autumn onslaught of strep throat, common colds, and the flu in this month's issue of Tips for Health, published by the eHealthInstitute. Find the eZine, which is a premier spot for accurate and timely health information, online at http://www.tipsforhealth.com/index.html.

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The same scenes are repeated in cities and town across the nation from late August through the end of September. Groups of students convene in classrooms to get to work after a fun, hot summer. Often these students bring something more then pencils and books. All too often they carry the germs and viruses that lead to colds, the flu, strep throat and ear infections. After learning how to share at school, students carry contagions home, causing further cycling among households and, often, on to the workplace. It's an endless rotation only a thorough knowledge of health and wellness can cure.

This year brings a special cause for concern. Health officials remain very worried that bird flu is poised to make a wholesale jump to humans. Without an effective vaccine, the virus could cause a widespread pandemic – a generalized and geographically outbreak affecting millions -- and exact a high death toll among Americans before it is contained.

While a bird flu vaccine may be developed, it would be folly to take too much comfort. Flu viruses tend to mutate and mutate quickly. Vaccinating for the bird flu may give people a false sense of comfort.

This month the eHealthInstitute offers Tips for Health concerning common cold and flu season at health and wellness resources for getting informed about these everyday and often hard to shake maladies. Information to make informed choices about supplements and behaviors is the chief resource in battling and overcoming even the most common health problems.

Head over to the eHealthInstitute to find out the foods to eat and to avoid when you're sick. Dr. Shoshana shares which nutrients, and which doses, make fighting the flu easier. Find a handy six-step checklist for stopping infections like strep throat from jumping from person to person. Take a true or false quiz on symptoms. Get informed through a series of links to news stories illustrating the current state of bird flu and other hot topics.

Tips for Health is a monthly online newsletter published by Dr. Shoshana and the Tips for Heath team at the eHealthInstitute. She is a doctor of Naturopathic Medicine who combines Ayurvedic approaches with Western medicine. However, authors on the site seek to blend naturopathic and Western medicine. This month, they offer advice on which antibiotics to take to keep strep throat from escalating into Rheumatic Fever and on new drugs the FDA has approved for flu treatment.

Tips for Health also offers recommendations and links to a wide variety of the best quality natural health products and supplements. Learn the roles of and find the best brands for effective sick season products like Oil of Oregano, Echinacea/Goldenseal, elderberry and the right bacteria.

Take health and wellness seriously as you would the cold. flu or strep throat as that season is upon us again. Visit Tips for Health today.

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