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Protecting yourself during winter months with autoimmune disease

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@happilyalive

Thanks for letting me know that you wear the KN95 masks and that your daughter wears one on the crowded subways without incident. I made certain to get two boxes to last throughout winter. Do you wash down the carts in stores with a lysol wipe or just use them as is?

Blessings to you

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windyshores | @windyshores | Nov 7 6:09am

@happily alive yes I still grab those wipes going into stores, if still available. If I do a salad bar I also use the wipes on my hands. I am not obsessive about it but why not?

I have lupus and high antibodies for scleroderma, kidney disease, lung hyperinflation and episodes of afib. I was in the hospital with COVID and they literally could not treat me. Steroids and asthma meds set off my heart. So although my immune system has "gone awry" (quoting one doctor) the barriers to treatment- not just for COVID but flu, cold, any respiratory illness) are the reason for my vigilance. Also, with osteoporosis, a cough could mean fracture!

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