Wear a Mask
If you absolutely must visit the doctor’s office during flu season or at a busy time, take as radical a step as is necessary to keep your health in check. Wear a mask to avoid inhaling harmful contagion. You’ll probably be at arm's length from someone violently coughing from a bout of the flu or some other communicable disease. But that doesn’t mean you have to breathe in what they’re coughing up. Save yourself the future discomfort of fighting off the flu by wearing a mask to stay healthy.
And if it seems a little awkward doing so, think about it this way: Doctors and nurses wear masks all day long for exactly the same reason. So join the club.
Wash Your Hands and Bring Sanitizer
This is probably the most critical piece of advice you could take. At some point, you'll have to touch something in the doctor's office. Using the community pen to sign in or the office clipboard to fill out paperwork allows germs to pass from one pair of hands to another, all day, every day. Just think how many of those hands were dirty or sick. The examining table you sit on when you chat with your doctor has already had its share of visitors that day. How many of them were sick?
● So with that in mind when you go to the doctor’s office, come in with your arsenal of hand sanitizer. Be sure to sanitize your hands after using any common items in the office that could be teeming with germs.
● Wash your hands after your consultation. There is bound to be a strong antibacterial soap in the doctor’s office. Maybe you’ve noticed the doctor washes his or her hands when he or she steps in the consultation room. It’s a habit that keeps the doctors and nurses bug free.