If you’ve been sick on and off this year, you might be a victim of the “yo-yo flu”. Here’s what it is, and why you have it.
Australia is grappling with the “yo-yo flu”, where cold symptoms continually return, as a sharp rise in respiratory infections has been driven by an early flu season, continuing cases of COVID-19 and the circulation of nasty viruses.
Balmain Community Pharmacist workers Caroline Diamantis and Sylvia Thai said there’s been a surge in customers buying cold and flu medicines.Working in a pharmacy, she is used to being exposed to illness, but this year is different after two-and-a-half years of social distancing and mask-wearing: “Our immune systems haven’t had a chance to grow and all of a sudden, the world is normal and all the germs are coming out, and our bodies don’t know what to do.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners vice president Bruce Willett said there were three factors potentially driving sickness rates: a range of viruses, a lack of natural immunity, and potentially long COVID-19.
Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness immunologist Dr Daniel Layton said while Australia was in the middle of a “bad” cold and flu season, these were common occurrences.
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