It’s definitely cold and flu season (pretty much as soon as the kids are back in school I declare it as such, but fine the experts say it’s now during the middle of winter.) We have been pretty good so far, but I know better. I got a chuckle out of this tweet the other day and retweeted it, in solidarity.
Saying “my kids have been pretty healthy this winter” just once is seven million times more dangerous than saying “Beetlejuice” 3x in a row.
— Kim Bongiorno (@LetMeStart) February 7, 2017
So, we’re doing as much as we can to ensure we all stay healthy this winter. We got our flu shots, we take our vitamins, and we (hope we) dutifully wash our hands often. I’m always open to extra defense tactics, so was happy to include a new product from Arbonne in our kitchen-cabinet artillery.
Arbonne Essentials Antioxidant & Immunity Support is a 30 mL pouch of fruit juices infused with antioxidant vitamins, minerals and botanicals to help maintain healthy immune function.
Features:
· Fruit juices from blueberry, pomegranate, acerola, and elderberry and part of a 3-tier system featuring botanicals, as well as a clinically studies ingredient that helps to maintain immune function
· Includes botanical blend of green tea, guarana, yerba mate and ginseng
· Individual pouches are convenient for home and travel
· Take daily to help maintain immune function, helping you to stay healthy year round
· No high fructose corn syrup or artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners
· Vegan-formulated, formulated without gluten
Key Ingredients and Benefits:
· Saccharomyces cerevisiae – a natural, dried yeast fermentate – helps to reduce the incidence of cold and flu symptoms
· Vitamins C and D help to maintain immune function
· Source of antioxidant for the maintenance of good health
· Milk thistle is traditionally used in herbal medicine as a liver protectant and helps support liver function
How to Use:
· Adults: Drink one 30 mL packet once daily with food, a few hours before or after taking other medications. Shake vigourously before drinking
You can order this and any Arbonne product from your local Arbonne distributor. Don’t have one? Ask your friends (I find Facebook is great for this!) or shop Arbonne online here!
I have a box of Arbonne Essentials Antioxidant & Immunity Support (30 packets for a 1 month supply) to give away to one of our readers. Valued at $90 this could be just the product you need to help get you through the winter!
I couldn’t avoid the cold. The flu I have so far. HOpefully it will stay away.
Well the colds, and varied types of them, have hit our house hard and mutated into several different kinds this year. It seems no one is immune to them this year.We also are battling the 24 hr flu too right now. So we do try to keep up with vitamins, lots of fluids and the hardest part, Sleep! I have used Arbonne’s Antioxident and Immune booster packs and they are great! Would love some more for the family!
I’ve been overal healthy. My daughter (5) had strep throat and hopefully that’s all!
So far so good. *knock on wood*. Last year at this time, I was critically ill.
We are being very diligent about handwashing this winter. Everyone had a bad cold at Christmas and we don’t want a repeat!
this year was tough, i was sick, hubby got sick with man flu, then he left for camp, i was on the mend, then my son decided to share with me.
I’ve been lucky and only had one head cold. Unfortunately my dad caught the flu!
So far so good… No cold.no flu
I haven’t had a cold or the flu yet this season and I had my flu shot in november
I had something horrible at the beginning of Jan but have been good since then. The kids have actually been pretty good this year too!
We’ve been lucky so far in this house!
We’ve all got hit pretty hard this winter , I work in residential care and it’s been outbreak after outbreak
None of us had a cold or flu until last night.
I can’t avoid the cold! I am currently trying to get rid of a three month long cough! I have been sick from work a few days as it just hits you and you are so tired! I have been able to avoid the flu (Thankfully)
I caught a cold just before Christmas but overall healthy
So far, it has been a success!
Not too bad, especially compared to those around us. We’re all battling little coughs right now though.
I have a cold on its last legs this week, but it wasn’t bad just long-lasting.
We have all done amazingly well, with no colds or illnesses.
I’ve avoided getting sick so far but it seems like everyone around me is sick!
So far I have had a sinus infection but haven’t had a cold or flu!
We all got teh flu shot and all have been illness free!
Already a couple of colds so far this season in my house! And it seems to be a much longer, lingering cold this year!
I have managed to stay healthy so far. However my husband has been sick twice since November.
Had a cold, boyfriend had the stomach bug going around his office. BUT I was able to avoid the stomach bug by quarantining him and wiping down every surface in our home with Clorox wipes!
So far we are avoiding those colds and flu,hope it continues!
I avoid the cold as much as I can!
It’s been an extremly cold winter but I have been doing just fine so far. (touch wood)
My husband and I have had a great year so far and have avoided any colds or flu that so many around us have been dealing with.
So far I have been not to bad but hubby has been getting the odd cold here and there but then his immune system has been down as well!!
this winter has been great so far. No colds or flu (just allergies)
So far so good for me but my husband was sick New Year’s Day. It wasn’t a hangover either as he only ever has a glass of wine with dinner.w
Knock on wood…no illnesses so far. Not even a cold.
This year has been absolutely horrible! I have two little ones that started school and since than it seems every week there is a new cold in our house. Ugh! I am so over it. Come on Summer
So far I’ve only had the sniffles once and it lasted a day.
It’s going lousy this season. I had a horrible cold/flu? from beginning of November, and didn’t recover until after Christmas. Now I’m on my second cold, and it’s only February. Blechhhh.
we bundle up dress warm and wash our hands a lot so far we’ve avoided any colds
My winter has gone much better so far than last year! I traded the flu with shoveling snow! LOL
So far so good for winter 2017 in terms of avoiding those colds and flu — nobody in family infected yet –fingers crossed stays that way!
We’ve been very lucky so far and no one in the house has gotten sick. I hope things stay that way because I would be more than happy to get through the winter without any colds or flus this year.
I would like to say it’s been good so far in 2017, but that would be a lie. We all had the flu 3 weeks ago!
I have not been too bad avoiding but our kids all had the flu 🙁
I’ve never been sicker! 4 different ailments this past winter.
So far it has been a bad year. Ear infections, colds and flu bugs.
So far, so good. My fingers are crossed it continues this way.
No one’s had a cold or flu in my house this year.
I have had a couple cold bugs but luckily haven’t gotten the flu! Hopefully, i can avoid it this year.
So far my kids have only had one and my husband has had one.
Would love to try new product
Luckily I avoided the flu, so far, but not so lucky with colds. I’m fighting one now.
I’m afraid winter 2017 has taken a toll on our family. My 7 year old grandson comes home from school with a cough, cold, or flu every few weeks and unfortunately it gets passed onto his parents and both sets of grandparents. It takes us older folks a lot longer to recover, I’ve been sick for almost 5 weeks now.
So far so good, for 2017. No colds and no flu (knock on wood, drink some Arbonne…)
so far, so good! Now I hope I haven’t jinxed things by saying that. I find that as the kids get older and getting into the higher grades, we are experiencing fewer bouts of colds at our house
I haven’t had the flu yet and my family either! So good!
I had a cold and was sick for a few weeks. Healthy beyond that! My sons had a flu for a few days
I have had a cold for almost a month now. Great timing thanks.
So far so good!
I have not had a cold or the flu in 2017.
Pretty good; we’ve only been sick once this winter!
We have been healthy this year so far.
I try to get the flu vaccine every year and I have been free of colds or flu this year so far.
My winter is going pretty good so far. No major colds/flus… yet.
We had one cold/flu that took us to our knees.It was a bad one that we picked up from a sick child.The school said it went through there like crazy.I am so glad we got our shots in the fall because it was a baddy, but on the bright side it was the only one we got this winter.
Not too great!!!
I’ve been overall healthy
Not so good. I got it hard with the flu twice.
Unfortunately my son his wife and 3 young girls got the flu. The oldest brought it home and everyone got it in succession. I nursed them all and I thought I had dodged a bullet but no sooner had I got through my door I got sick and it was awful 🙁 Down with the FLU
So Far this winter we have been doing ok, but its not over yet. My mother has had the flu but was only the 24 hour kind thank goodness
It hasn’t been going the greatest as of late for my kids. All 3 have had a bout with the cold in the past few weeks!
I have not done so well in 2017. I started out with bronchitis! It can only go up from there.