{"id":1101,"date":"2025-11-24T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:18:02","slug":"vaccinations-and-winter-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/11\/24\/vaccinations-and-winter-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinations and winter health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"heading--24 attribution-text\">We are now in the season of winter viruses such as flu and we wanted to take this opportunity to remind you to look after yourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"heading--24 attribution-text\">Flu and colds can spread quickly on a University campus and for most of us it will be a minor illness and what you will need is plenty of fluid and lots of rest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body--16\">\n<p>Fran Rintoul (Lead Nurse) from University Nursing Services has provided some hints and tips in trying to keep yourself well:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><strong>Hand washing is key <\/strong>&#8211; keep on washing your hands thoroughly especially after using toilets or being in groups of people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><strong>Look after your diet<\/strong> &#8211; a balanced healthy diet will help you fight off infections, lots of vegetables, fruit, fish and hot meals in these winter months makes a huge difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><strong>Have a self-care kit at home<\/strong> &#8211; have your own first aid kit containing simple pain killers such as Ibuprofen, paracetamol, lozenges, honey and lemon to add to hot water &#8211; good for coughs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><strong>Stay at home if you are unwell<\/strong> &#8211; this will help reduce the spread of the flu virus. If you are missing a teaching or assessment please see the engagement pages on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/media.www.kent.ac.uk\/se\/45563\/Howtologanabsence.pdf\">record an absence<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><strong>Appropriate use of NHS services<\/strong> &#8211; most of us can care for ourselves when we have flu, however the <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/support\/health-services\">Nursing Service<\/a> is available for assessment if symptoms are concerning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In some cases vaccination is recommended<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/live-well\/seasonal-health\/keep-warm-keep-well\/\">NHS recommends flu vaccination for key groups<\/a> and if you are in one of these groups or you are a carer of someone in a key group you should contact your GP Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>More information on Health and Wellbeing can be found on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/support\/wellbeing#health\" data-link-type=\"external\">SSW pages <\/a>and the NHS also produces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/live-well\/seasonal-health\/keep-warm-keep-well\/\">this guide on winter vaccinations and winter health.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now in the season of winter viruses such as flu and we wanted to take this opportunity to remind you to look after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/11\/24\/vaccinations-and-winter-health\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24530,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,183846],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}