Docs reveal how to avoid dreaded ‘festival flu’

This festival is going to be sick — here’s how you can stay healthy. 

Over 500,000 attendees are preparing to descend upon the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend. When the fun is over, some of them may catch the dreaded “festival flu.” 

Festival flu is not an official medical diagnosis, rather it is slang used to describe a feeling of sickness following a a big outdoor festival in varying climates. Sometimes festival flu is referred to as “Coachella Cough” because attendees of Coachella, a festival in a California desert area just east of Palm Springs, report getting a cough from dust exposure or other illnesses, according to the American Lung Association.