Ways to prevent influenza

Flu is the abbreviation of influenza. I believe everyone is very familiar with flu, because flu is very easy to spread. As mentioned above, we must avoid being infected by the flu virus. Preventing flu is knowledge that each of us needs to know. So what can we do to prevent flu? In fact, there are many things we need to do to prevent flu. Let’s take a look at the introduction below.

To prevent influenza, we need to stay away from influenza patients and pay attention to personal hygiene, wash our hands frequently and don't always hide in closed spaces. To prevent influenza, we need to drink more water and don't always sit, but move more.

1. Maintain a distance of 2 feet. When a patient coughs or sneezes, the virus-carrying saliva can splash about 2 feet away, so when you find someone is about to sneeze or cough, you should immediately step back from this distance. If you encounter this situation in an elevator or on a bus, turn away immediately because your eyes and nose are the most contagious.

2. Wash your hands frequently. The virus can survive on infected hands for up to three hours, so wash your hands frequently.

3. Be careful with enclosed spaces. It is easy to catch a cold in places with poor air quality, such as offices. In addition, airplanes are also places where it is easy to catch a cold. If you can't avoid these places, you can use light salt water to keep your nose moist at all times.

4. Drink plenty of water. Plenty of water will flush the virus out of your body and prevent dehydration, which is one of the complications of a cold.

5. Don't rub your nose all the time. Rubbing your nose can easily transfer the virus on your hands directly to the part of your body that is most susceptible to infection.

6. Don’t sit still all the time. Get 30-45 minutes of aerobic exercise every day. Activities such as walking, cycling, and dancing can greatly enhance your ability to resist colds and avoid respiratory infections.

7. Pay attention to disinfecting kitchen utensils. A large number of colds are caught in the kitchen. The biggest killer is hidden here—sponges and rags used for washing dishes and kitchen utensils. These warm and humid places are most likely to allow pathogens to multiply in large numbers. If there is a patient at home, you should often use disinfectant to wipe the things he often touches, such as faucets, door handles, refrigerator handles, etc.

8. Eat more vitamins E and C. Vitamin E plays an important role in the human immune system, but it is mostly found in animal fats and vegetable oils, so people who don’t like to eat meat or oil consume less of it. They need to supplement some foods containing vitamin E. Vitamin C can reduce the symptoms and severity of colds, so you can take some orally, but don't take too much.

9. If you want to drink some wine before going to bed at night, then drink it. A British study shows that people who smoke frequently but drink a little alcohol are more resistant to viruses than those who abstain from alcohol, and their chance of catching a cold can be reduced by 65%. So if you are not pregnant and do not need to abstain from alcohol, you might as well drink some wine.

10. Adequate sleep can greatly improve a person's ability to resist colds. An experiment was conducted in San Diego, USA, in which 42 volunteers only slept in the second half of the night. Their immunity decreased by 30% the next day. Then, they were asked to sleep for 8 hours, and their immunity was fully restored.

11. Drugs that reduce nasal congestion may be used appropriately.

12. Protect your throat. Gargling with hot salt water can heal a sore throat. Hot tea and hot honey water are also effective.

13. Drink some low-fat chicken soup at midnight or during dinner. Any hot beverage is good for treating a cold, but chicken soup is even better because it's rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals.

Finally, if you have a cold, you should remember to cover your mouth and nose with your hands when you cough and sneeze, so that the germs will not travel far and harm others.

Above we introduced what influenza is. We know that influenza is very easy to spread, so we must do a good job of preventing influenza. There are many aspects we need to do to prevent influenza. The above article introduces in detail various methods of preventing influenza. To prevent influenza, we can drink more water, pay attention to personal hygiene, exercise more, etc.