As we all know, prevention is always the best medicine. As much as I'm not buying into all the hype around the swine flu (just as I didn't around the avian flu or West Nile virus), it never hurts to do a little preventative maintenance just to be safe.
There was a 2007 study comparing the flu vaccine with 1 capsule of colostrum daily. The study had 2 parts. The first part looked at healthy adults and the second looked at patients with advanced cardiovascular disease.
Groups in the first part were vaccine alone, colostrum alone, vaccine + colostrum, and no treatment.
Colostrum was 4 times more effective than the flu vaccine. Colostrum was 3 times more effective than no treatment. The flu vaccine was actually worse than doing nothing at all. The vaccine + colostrum group did equally well as colostrum alone.
The highest incidence of flu (57 cases) were in the flu vaccine only group, not the "no treatment" group which had 41 cases of flu.
In the second part of the study colostrum was twice as effective as the flu vaccine (3 on colostrum vs 6 with the vaccine) and 1 patient died from complications of the flu in the vaccine group.
Other prevention measures - Allimax garlic, Gastrointestinal (GI) cleanse, probiotics, vitamin C and/or MediHerb Echinacea Premium (alternating 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off).
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