There’s a lot of sometimes-conflicting advice out there about how to treat the flu, so we spoke to an expert
Photo: EujarimPhotography/Getty Images It’s flu season once again, which means you’ve already been vaccinated, thus reducing your chances of getting the flu and vastly reducing your chances of getting severely ill. If you haven’t yet gotten the flu shot, it’s not too late — although the CDC recommends getting one by the end of October, you should still be able to get one as long as the flu is circulating and unexpired vaccines are available.
But let’s say you end up with the flu this year despite your best efforts to prevent it. You felt fine, then, seemingly out of nowhere, you’re feverish, your legs hurt, and you can barely get out of bed. There’s a lot of sometimes-conflicting advice out there about how to treat the flu, so we spoke to Vanessa Raabe, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at NYU Langone’s Vaccine Center, about flu best practices and treatment options for flu season 2019 to 2020.
“If it comes on very suddenly — if you’re having fever, chills, body aches, along with a stuffy nose and cough or sore throat — that’s when we want people to be thinking about the flu,” says Raabe. “We do have medications that can shorten the duration of symptoms, but those are actually most effective if you take them in the first two days.
Xofluza works a little differently, preventing the stage in which the virus is trying to replicate itself to make new copies, says Raabe. Xofluza has the advantage of being a single dose, though that dose also causes nausea. Still, it isn’t approved for kids under 12 or pregnant women, so for now, it’s less commonly prescribed, says Raabe.
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