Thank goodness we’ve not had any flu around here in a few years. It’s usually my husband who gets it, and since he’s our bread winner, we can’t afford to have him down! If anyone around here gets sick, I quarantine them completely, they even get the hall bathroom all to them selves. I’m the only one who enters the room they’re in and I’m careful not to spread their crud around the house.
When flu or stomach bugs hit our house, we make chamomile tea with lemon balm, mugwort and sometimes echinacea. They’re good antimicrobials, good for calming the stomach and echinacea is a good one for prevention and treatment of flu and cold.
No one else in the family wants any when they’re sick to their stomach, but grape juice and oyster crackers are my go to. It’s always smell that has me grabbing a receptacle, and grape juice and crackers don’t really smell.