WHAT TYPE OF FLU FIGHTER ARE YOU?

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When the flu hits, do you take to your bed like a "Cozy Cocooner" or do you mix a pharmaceutical cocktail like a "Ferocious Fighter"? Does your desire to be invincible make you a "Disease Denier" or does your tendency to take a more proactive approach to wellness put you in the "Holistic Healer" category? Take the following quiz from Boiron USA, a Newtown Square, Pa.-based manufacturer of homeopathic medicines, to discover your individual flu fighting technique.

1. It's the middle of the flu season and you start experiencing flu symptoms (cough, sore throat, fever, chills, and body aches). What do you do?

   1. Take to your bed with a box of tissues, a thermometer, and maybe some chicken soup to rest until you feel better. You look forward to this break from work.

   2. Fight it with every medicine at your disposal. You can't afford to be sick.

   3. Methodically implement your "tried-and-true" flu recovery plan. You start with one or two nonprescription medicines and increase in strength and number as the flu progresses.

   4. Don't do anything--you never get the flu.

   5. Choose to take a natural medicine at the first sign of symptoms. You want to get better, but you don't want to take medication with any side effects.

2. What's the first thing you reach for when you have flu symptoms?

   1. Home remedies like tea with honey, chicken soup, warm salt water gargles, or a mild pain reliever like aspirin

   2. The strongest thing for flu in your medicine cabinet

   3. A simple nonprescription medicine that will relieve one or more of your symptoms (nasal spray, cough drops, aspirin).

   4. Nothing

   5. Herbal and/or homeopathic medicines like echinacea, zinc, or Oscillococcinum.

3. What does the flu mean to you?

   1. It reminds you of childhood and the need to be pampered.

   2. You hate it. You can't afford to be sick.

   3. It's about control. You can handle it and know what to do to fight it.

   4. It's not an issue.

   5. It's something you try to avoid as much as possible by leading a healthy lifestyle.

4. How likely are you to include a natural medicine as part of your flu treatment?

   1. Never

   2. Not likely

   3. Somewhat likely

   4. Very likely

   5. Definitely

5. During the flu season, when it comes to medicine what do you do?

   1. Make sure you have a good supply of home remedies, such as tea, soup, and honey

   2. Go buy it only when you feel sick

   3. Keep a supply of your regular drugs in your medicine cabinet

   4. Don't buy any

   5. Keep it with you to take at the first sign of symptoms

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