What are the methods for preventing and treating infectious diseases?

When the seasons change or the climate is dry, many people are susceptible to infectious diseases. Especially the elderly and children with poor resistance are often infected with diseases such as measles, mumps, and respiratory infections. If you want to prevent and control infectious diseases, you must start with yourself, prevent the sources of infection around you, and enhance your body's immunity. Next, let’s take a look at what are the most common methods of preventing and treating infectious diseases?

1. Drink water regularly

When the climate is dry, the dust content in the air is high and the human nasal mucosa is easily damaged. Drinking more water to keep the nasal mucosa moist can effectively resist the invasion of viruses, and is also beneficial to the excretion of toxins in the body and purification of the internal environment.

2. Pay attention to your daily diet

A proper diet can also improve your immunity. A balanced combination of proteins, sugars, fats, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients that help strengthen your body can also be supplemented with foods rich in vitamin C, as vitamin C helps boost immunity. The diet must be regular and not overeating. In addition, you should also remember to drink plenty of water, because getting a sore throat makes you more susceptible to viral attacks.

3. Pay attention to personal hygiene

It is very important to wash your hands frequently and keep your hands clean. You should also try to avoid touching your eyes, mouth, nose, etc. with your hands. In addition, when washing your hands, do not simply rinse them under the faucet, but wash them thoroughly with soap and for as long as possible. Another thing is to remember to wear a mask when going out. Clothes and bedding must be washed and dried frequently.

4. Strengthen exercise and enhance immunity

In spring, the human body's metabolism begins to flourish, which is a good time for exercise. We should actively participate in physical exercise, go to the suburbs and outdoors to breathe fresh air, and at the same time arrange our work and rest time reasonably.

5. Get enough sleep

Arrange your work and rest schedule reasonably, lead a regular life, and combine work and rest. The weather is warm and cold in spring, and the balance of yin and yang in the human body is easily disturbed, causing dizziness, headache, fatigue, drowsiness, etc. It is best to ensure more than 7 to 8 hours of sleep a day.

6. Wash your hands before being intimate with your child

In the prevention of some infectious diseases such as hand, foot and mouth disease, adults should pay attention to their personal hygiene, change clothes and wash hands after returning home before being intimate with children. When children are eating, do not let them play while eating, do not blow while feeding, and do not chew the food into pieces, spit it out and then feed it to the child. In addition, adults should not give children unclean food or water, regularly disinfect children's toys and tableware, wash their hands after changing diapers, and deal with children's urine and feces.

7. Pay attention to ventilation

Fresh air removes excess moisture and dilutes indoor pollutants. Windows should be opened regularly to ventilate the room, maintain air circulation, and allow sunlight to enter the room, because the ultraviolet rays in sunlight have a bactericidal effect. In addition, you can also use vinegar to fumigate the room for disinfection.

8. Avoid crowded public places

For daily activities, try to choose open-air or well-ventilated places, avoid staying in closed environments, and avoid crowded public places. During the influenza epidemic, you should try to avoid taking airplanes, air-conditioned trains or buses, and avoid going to large hotels or shopping malls with central air conditioning.

9. Reduce irritation to the respiratory tract

Not smoking and eating less spicy food can reduce irritation to the respiratory tract, thereby protecting the natural immune function and enhancing the ability to eliminate external pathogens invading the respiratory tract.

10. Pay attention to getting the flu vaccine

Experts recommend that the elderly, the weak, those with chronic diseases, medical personnel, and children aged 6 months to 3 years should be vaccinated every year. It is worth reminding that the flu vaccine is not a one-time thing, but needs to be administered every year.