Some tips on preventing diseases in winter

Everyone knows that winter is a peak season for people to get sick due to the cold temperature. It is easiest to get sick during the change of seasons. How to effectively prevent various diseases in winter is common sense that we must learn. Let’s take a look at some common knowledge about winter disease prevention. I hope this helps you all.

How to prevent respiratory infections:

1. Wash your hands frequently: Respiratory secretions such as nasal discharge and sputum from patients with respiratory infectious diseases contain a large number of pathogens, which can be transmitted to healthy people through contact with the secretions by hands. Therefore, special emphasis should be placed on hand hygiene.

2. Drink more water: The climate is dry in autumn and the dust content in the air is high. The human nasal mucosa is easily damaged. Drink more water to keep the nasal mucosa moist, which can effectively resist the invasion of viruses, and is also beneficial to the excretion of toxins in the body and purify the internal environment.

3. Air circulation: To prevent the virus from spreading through the air. To keep the air in the classroom fresh, you should often open the doors and windows for ventilation. Good ventilation can eliminate 80% of natural bacteria, so natural ventilation is very important to keep the air fresh. During breaks, students should try to go outside the classroom and not stay in the classroom.

4. Strengthen nutrition: Eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C to ensure adequate nutrition to enhance your immunity.

5. Strengthen exercise: pay attention to daily physical exercise, improve the body's immunity and resistance, and enhance the ability to adapt to the external environment.

6. Maintain a reasonable work and rest schedule: maintain a regular life, ensure adequate sleep, prevent excessive tension and fatigue from reducing the body's resistance, and try not to go to public places where crowds gather.

7. Pay attention to keeping warm: the temperature difference between day and night is large in autumn, so students should add clothes in time according to climate changes.

8. Timely discovery and timely medical treatment: If you feel unwell, seek medical treatment immediately to avoid delaying the disease.

9. In addition, immunization prevention can be carried out: corresponding vaccinations can be carried out before the epidemic season, such as influenza, pneumonia, measles, meningitis and other vaccines to prevent corresponding respiratory infectious diseases.

Prevention of intestinal infectious diseases:

1. Pay attention to food hygiene. Do not eat rotten or spoiled food, do not eat food that has been bitten by flies or crawled by cockroaches, do not eat seafood (aquatic products) raw, and wash and peel fruits and vegetables before eating them raw.

2. Pay attention to drinking water hygiene. Do not drink raw water, drink boiled water, disinfect drinking utensils regularly to ensure drinking water hygiene.

3. Pay attention to personal hygiene. Change clothes frequently, wash hands frequently, wash face frequently, wash hands before meals and after defecation, and develop good hygiene habits. Do not spit anywhere and keep the environment clean.

4. Enhance body resistance. Do more physical exercise to improve your physical fitness. At the same time, corresponding preventive vaccinations can also be carried out to enhance the body's immunity to diseases.

From the above we can learn many common sense about preventing winter diseases. In addition to a very warm cotton-padded jacket, what can protect you from the cold winter is some meticulous care. After learning these little common sense, everyone may as well use their own actions to bring warmth to those around them, so that everyone can withstand the severe cold of winter and not get sick throughout the winter.