Flu 2024 Treatment Facilities

Flu 2024 Treatment Facilities. Facilities should provide instruction, before visitors enter patients' rooms, on hand hygiene, limiting surfaces touched, and use of personal protective equipment (ppe) according to current facility policy while in the patient's room. If you have a severe infection or are at high risk of complications from a flu infection, your healthcare professional may prescribe an antiviral medicine to treat the flu.

Flumist is sprayed into the nose and is approved for the prevention of influenza. Facilities should provide instruction, before visitors enter patients’ rooms, on hand hygiene, limiting surfaces touched, and use of personal protective equipment (ppe) according to current facility policy while in the patient’s room.