during the president s trip. anna? there is a second wave of the flew sweeping the country and hitting kids especially hard. what do you need to look out for and how do you know if it s the flu or something else like allergies? joining us now is nurse practitioner the founder of mid level u. good morning how are you? i know you said this super winter is causing worse allergies. how do we tell it s just allergies or we really have the flu. good rule of thumb is that allergy are more debilitating. flu you get body aches, high fever temperatures 101, 102. severe headache and a lot of the hacking cough. allergies, you get more of runny nose, congestion, itchy watering eyes and sneezing. flu people tell me they have been hit by a truck. allergies they are not so
warned him about her? why? how did that happen? well, you know, we all have intuition. i was having dinner with travis. he was right here in front of me like with you, and jodi was on my right side. and i was eating and we had a nice conversation with travis about work and whatnot and life. and all of a sudden i had this cold chill and it was just like oh, i need to pay attention to this. is this for jodi, is this for my husband? what is this for? i look at travis and all of a sudden i said honey, i need to talk to you. right there. we went to the ladies room where we could have some space. he closed his eyes, i closed my eyes and all i can tell him is that i see this shower pouring beautiful rain of light around you. you have angels around you. and i remember having the chills. he started watering eyes. he s just like what are you talking about? he was just amazed. i said well, there s a lot of guidance around you.
allergy. that s right. jenna: how do we know the difference between a winter allergy and a winter cold? well, they can share symptoms in common, to runny nose, watering eyes, stuffy nose you can get with pote. but if you have a common cold, often you have a sore throat, aching in the muscles. with an allergy you up have itchy eyes, you may have a skin rash particularly if you re asthmatic, you may have a little bit of shortness of of breath and wheeze siness. jenna: so just if your sneezing and not feeling great, is there any way to check that before you just pop a, you know, a cold advil or something like that? well, if you have a common cold, you want to avoid antibiotics because usually that s not the way to treat a common cold. you want to take some tylenol if you ve got achy type symptoms, rest up, drink plenty of fluids. if you have allergy, people normally may be more prone to allergies in the winter.
we did see workers on the beach and some of them earlier today complained of watering eyes and having trouble breathing because benzene in the air that may have been related to the fish kill. julie: despite claims that most of the oil is gone, it s hard to tell on television sets at home. you are seeing signs of oil washing ashore. yeah, i can show you one piece of evidence. a bottle that was covered in oil. i want to bring in brian adams who is with the emergency management office. a lot of people thought the worst was over yet you guys are seeing tarballs coming ashore. you are collecting thousand pounds? 800 to thousand pounds a day. what i m surprised by the fishermen, they are the first