Contents:
- Medical Video: The Benefits of Paid Sick Leave for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody
- When you have a cold, when should you ask for sick leave?
- Why should I ask for leave due to a cold?
- 1. The flu is very contagious
- 2. Flu can develop into a serious infection
- 3. You need to rest in order to recover quickly
- What should I do when I have a cold?
- How long should I rest?
- To note:
Medical Video: The Benefits of Paid Sick Leave for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody
Itchy nose and sore throat can occur when you wake up from sleep. Then in the office your body condition does not improve at all. This can be a sign that you will catch a cold. Maybe some of you are confused, to take sick leave or continue to work. Which should you choose? Consider the following review.
When you have a cold, when should you ask for sick leave?
Reporting from the New York Times, Dr. Pritish K. Tosh, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, explained that a worker with the flu must use his day to rest. However, most people don't care about that. "If their situation gets worse, they better rest at home," he explained.
For this reason, if you experience flu symptoms, when you have a fever at night, immediately leave sick leave for a while. This is better than forcing yourself to work.
Why should I ask for leave due to a cold?
1. The flu is very contagious
Flu may be taken lightly by some people. However, flu is easily transmitted to people around you. Especially if all day long you are in the same office room, closed, and the air is quite dry or cold. The virus will be more easily transmitted.
Of course you don't want it if your office mates also get the flu, right? The work environment must continue to be productive with healthy employees. If you don't want to damage or transmit your flu to others, this is the reason why you should ask for sick leave from work if you have a cold.
The flu that has a high risk of contagious is when the sufferer has a fever. After that, symptoms of coughing and sneezing will appear. This is the way the flu spreads from one person to another. Not only through contaminated air, flu also spreads through the touch of the hand. If the sufferer sneezes or coughs, the person's hand will reflexively close the mouth and nose so that the virus moves into the hand. From the hand, the virus will then spread through the door knob that is held alternately, the elevator button, and many more.
2. Flu can develop into a serious infection
Don't underestimate the flu virus. Because, in people who have a weak immune system, flu can develop into a serious illness. For example pneumonia (lung infection). People with certain health conditions such as asthma and other respiratory disorders are more susceptible to serious complications due to flu viruses that you transmit if you force yourself to stay in the office when you have a cold.
3. You need to rest in order to recover quickly
When you have a cold, your body needs a lot of energy to attack the virus and recover from your own body. If you do not rest and your energy is used to work, drive the vehicle to work, etc., the body will be increasingly difficult to eradicate the virus that infects you.
What should I do when I have a cold?
Rest is the most important part of overcoming any disease. If the flu is accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea, you should contact your doctor immediately. Usually the doctor will recommend you to rest for 1 full day and take medication until your fever drops.
How long should I rest?
Quoted from WebMD, your recovery from flu depends on the health of your body. In general, people get colds in 7 to 10 days. Flu symptoms, including fever, will disappear on the fifth day. However, coughing, sneezing, and weakness may actually recover more than that, can reach 1 or 2 weeks later.
You can take a few days' rest, essentially until you can move back to normal.
To note:
It's been explained that the flu will completely disappear and your body will actually recover after 1 to 2 weeks. So, some of the following things you can do when you go back to work to reduce the spread of the virus from the flu that you feel, such as:
- Use a mask. This reduces exposure to the virus when you cough, sneeze, or talk to other people.
- If you are going to cough or sneeze, make sure to cover it with your elbows, not with your palms.
- Avoid shaking hands with other people.
- Use hand sanitizer every time you have coughed or sneezed.
- Temporarily reduce interactions with others.
- Take the medication your doctor prescribes as recommended.
