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#52 St. Michael Street T8N 1C9 Saint Albert, AB, Canada

Autumn flu season: Everyone 6 months and older should get an annual flu vaccine. It takes about two weeks after vaccination for your body to develop full protection against the flu. Get vaccinated to protect yourself and your loved ones! Shorter days and cooler evenings. It is falland often the time that we start seeing people get sick with flu. By getting a flu vaccine for yourself and your entire family every season, you can help prevent flu-related illness, missed school... and work and even more serious flu-related illness. Influenza (flu) is a contagious respiratory disease that infects the nose, throat, and lungs and can lead to serious complications, hospitalization, or even death. Pneumonia and bronchitis are examples of serious flu-related complications. The flu also can cause certain health conditions, like diabetes, asthma, and heart and lung disease, to become worse. Even healthy people can become sick with the flu and experience serious complications. But even if you are one of the lucky ones who bounces back quickly from a bout with the flu, people around you might not be so lucky. Getting a flu vaccine is the single best way to protect yourself and your family from this serious disease. Flu viruses are constantly changing, and different flu viruses can circulate and cause illness each season. Flu vaccines are made each year to protect against the flu viruses that research indicates will be most common. Also, immunity from vaccination declines after a year. This is why everyone needs a flu vaccine every season. While everyone 6 months and older should get a flu vaccine this season with rare exception, it’s especially important for some people to get vaccinated. Those people include the following: Children aged 6 months through 4 years (59 months); People aged 50 years and older; People with chronic pulmonary (including asthma), cardiovascular (except hypertension), renal, hepatic, neurologic, hematologic, or metabolic disorders (including diabetes mellitus); People who are immunosuppressed (including immunosuppression caused by medications or by human immunodeficiency virus); Women who are or will be pregnant during the influenza season; People who are aged 6 months through 18 years and receiving long-term aspirin therapy and who therefore might be at risk for experiencing Reye syndrome after influenza virus infection; People who are residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities; American Indians/Alaska Natives[729 KB]; People who are morbidly obese (body-mass index is 40 or greater); Health-care personnel; Household contacts and caregivers of children younger than 5 years and adults aged 50 years and older, with particular emphasis on vaccinating contacts of children aged younger than 6 months; and Household contacts and caregivers of people with medical conditions that put them at higher risk for severe complications from influenza.

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I am hosting the following training courses in June and July. If interested, please contact me at 780-245-0500. Certificates are available through Red Cross & St. John Ambulance. *First Aid & CPR with AED level A, B, and C. *Health Care Provider *Automatic external defibrillator ... *Baby Sitting *O2 and meds administration *Fall Protection *Child Health Care *Home Safety LEARN HOW TO SAVE A LIFE Be safe and know what to do in case of an emergency

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The sun can be very hot between 11am and 4pm during summer, when the ultraviolet rays are fierce, and it doesn’t take long for skin to become burned. Here are some quick tips for staying safe in the sun: SLIP into a shirt and SLIP into some shade, especially between 11am and 4pm. SLOP on some sunscreen before going outdoors. Use an SPF30+ broad-spectrum sunscreen. Wipe it on at least 15 minutes before going outdoors use approximately one teaspoon of sunscreen for each arm... and leg, your body and your face. Reapply every two hours, and also after physical activity, swimming or towel drying. Stay safe and enjoy the sun it is good for you if you follow the steps above; it gives you vitamin D. Everyone of us needs it.