A healthy lifestyle is the basis for the prevention of influenza, acute respiratory infections and colds in children and adults. Personal hygiene rules for adults and children during the flu epidemic

Article on how not to get sick with flu and cold.

Colds and flu are the most common diseases, beginning in the autumn when the cold comes, until spring, when warm days are set.

These diseases are characterized by the penetration of pathogens through the mouth and nose into the throat, trachea and bronchi. If microbes penetrated into our organs, we learn about this after the occurrence of a cold, fever, cough, which last 2-14 days.

And what can be done to lessen the pain? This is discussed in the article.

A healthy lifestyle is the basis for the prevention of colds and flu in adults and children

Cold .A cold and an acute respiratory viral infection can manifest itself if:

• Walk in the cold season in wet shoes
• Sit on a draft
• Drink cold drinks and water
• Freeze on the street
• Use common objects with a sick person
• Communicate with a sick person - infectionoccurs through coughing and sneezing

The above factors and weakened immunity are the causes of cold disease.

Symptoms of the common cold:

• Body temperature rise to 38 ° C
• General malaise
• Chills
• Nasal congestion
• Runny nose
• Sneezing
• Cough

Flu .It is also an acute respiratory-viral disease, but if the cold passes without severe consequences, then the flu enters a general intoxication of the body, as well as the defeat of the respiratory system with degeneration of the epithelial cells and the formation of new virus particles.

Toxins formed as a result of introduction of the virus into the body and decaying epithelial cells, badly affect the heart, blood vessels, nerve cells and other organs.

According to the health of the flu, 15% of the world's population is ill every year, and death often occurs, especially among children and the elderly.

Symptoms of the flu:

• High body temperature, more than 38 ° C( if the temperature is not more than 39 ° C, doctors do not advise it to be knocked down by medicines, because the body itself fights harmful microbes, thus producing interferon).Swollen glands and sore throat.
• Strong cough.
• Severe body weakness.
• Headache and pain in all body muscles.

The flu is transmitted through things, saliva and cough of a person with flu.

It is very important to pay attention to symptoms in time, and to see a doctor to take within 24-48 hours after the onset of the disease, antiviral drugs , then the disease will flow easier.

Prevention of .To reduce the number of viral diseases, needs to strengthen the immunity of :

1. Drink freshly prepared juices.
2. Every day there are salads from fresh vegetables and fruits.
3. Eat 1 teaspoon each day.spoon of honey, you can with tea.
4. Get enough sleep at night, sleep at least 6-8 hours.
5. In the mornings 15-20 minutes to do gymnastics.
6. Walking in the open air every day.
7. Hardened.

Help reduce the flu and cold recipes preventive mixtures to raise the immunity .

Recipe 1. Lemon with honey and ginger

1. Well washed and dried 1 lemon, finely chopped together with the skin.
2. We add 3-4 items.spoons of honey and a small piece( about 1 cm thick) of finely chopped ginger, all mixed.
3. This mixture is added to 1-2 chayn.spoons into the tea several times a day.

Recipe 2. Walnuts with dried fruits and lemon

This mixture strengthens the immune system, is useful in overwork and general weakness.

1. Take 1 glass of walnuts, raisins and dried apricots, 1 lemon with skin and let it through the meat grinder.
2. Add 300 g of honey to the mixture and mix.
3. Accepted for 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day before meals.

Recipe 3. Pasta Amosova

This paste is tasty and useful, it has a lot of vitamins and trace elements.

1. Take 1 glass of walnuts, raisins, dried apricots, figs and prunes, 1-2 lemons with a peel, and let's all through the meat grinder.
2. Add 1 cup of honey to the mixture, mix it.
3. We eat in the morning for 1 cup.spoon 3 r.per day, you can add to the porridge.

Recipe 4. Decoction of rose hips

1. 2 tbsp. Spoons of rose hips are crushed, pour 1 cup boiling water and cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
2. 3 hours insist in the heat, you can in the thermos.
3. We drink half a glass of 2-3 r.for a day.

The use of aromatherapy for the prevention of flu and colds

To prevent flu and cold, you can use aromatherapy at home :

1. In the aroma lamp or inhaler pour hot water, drip 2 drops of essential oil of lavender, sage, cloves, eucalyptus or fir.
2. We inhale warm vapors of essential medical oil.

Caution .For children under 3 years of age, aromatherapy is contraindicated because it can cause severe allergies.

If you soaked your feet in cold weather or froze, then, after coming home, make yourself an warming foot bath :

1. Pour 5 l of hot water into the basin, dissolve in it 60 g of mustard powder and baking soda and soak in this waterlegs.
2. If the water is cold, add more hot.
3. Baths do 20-30 minutes.
4. Then wipe your feet with a towel, put on warm socks and go to bed.

Personal hygiene during the flu epidemic

During the flu epidemic, for the prevention of flu and colds, in public places you need to wear a mask

In order not to catch the flu during the epidemic, you must follow certain rules:

1. Do not visit crowded places.
2. If you are in a public place and you can not wash your hands with soap, do not touch your eyes, mouth and nose, or wipe your hands with a disinfectant.
3. Often, throughout the day, wash your nose with warm water.
4. Daily wipe the floor with a damp cloth.
5. Strengthen immunity.
6. Dressing for the weather.
7. Do not overcool.
8. When visiting a public place you need to dress a mask.
9. Long before the flu epidemic, visit the attending physician and vaccinate.

What should be the mask , and how to properly dress it ?

• The mask should cover the mouth, nose and fit snugly to the face so that there are no gaps.
• The mask must be multi-layered.
• It can be worn 3 hours without removing, and then change a new one.
• Do not touch it with your hands while wearing a mask.

Activities for the prevention of a healthy lifestyle to protect against flu and ARVI in adults and children

Hardening

A simple method of hardening for children : daily wipe the feet and the whole body with water, starting from 30 ° C, gradually reducing it to 16-18° C.

Young children need to start to quench from 1 month old .These are air baths, gymnastics for babies, bathing.

Hardening in summer for children and adults - walking barefoot, bathing, pouring water at room temperature, in the winter - walking barefoot on the floor in the apartment.

Folk remedies

Garlic and onions are a proven method of preventing colds and flu. You need to eat these vegetables every day, but if you do not want the smell of garlic to come from you, you can try inhalations with garlic and onions. :

1. Grate or pass 2-3 garlic cloves and half a bulb through a press.
2. Breathe this gruel through the mouth and nose.

To prevent influenza and colds, you need to drink freshly prepared juices

every day. Vitamins .To raise the immunity you need to drink more vitamin drinks : fruit drinks and juices with honey from cranberries, cranberries, black and red currants, rose hips infusion, tea from dried and frozen raspberries. Orange juice and pomegranate juice are also useful during the flu epidemic.

Healing herbs .Strengthen immunity and medicinal herbs, decoctions and infusions of which can be given to children.

Decoction of rose hips, raspberry leaves, black currant and cowberry

1. Mix in the same amount of rose hips, raspberry, black currant and cowberry leaves.
   2. Take 2 tbsp.spoon of this mixture and brew 1 glass of boiling water, cook for 10 minutes over low heat, cool, filter.
   3. We drink 0.5 glasses of 2 r.in a day.

Tea from the flowers of lime and black elderberry

1. We take equally the flowers of linden and elderberry, mix them.
   2. 2 tbsp. Spoon a mixture of pour 1 cup of boiling water, cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
   3. We strain the tea and drink hot.

For the prevention of influenza and colds will help inhalation

Inhalation .If the runny nose is already starting, and you feel that you are getting sick, inhalations help well. Adults can be inhaled for 5-15 minutes, children up to 5 minutes.

Inhalation from cooked potatoes

1. Several potatoes in the peel are boiled until cooked.
   2. Cooked potatoes are crushed, we drip 2-3 drops of fir oil in puree.
   3. We sit down on the pot, open it a little, cover ourselves with a towel and breathe this steam for 5-7 minutes.

Fir helps the fir oil: bury in each nostril for 1 drop, 3 r.in a day.

Another recipe used in folk medicine from the common cold : squeeze fresh aloe juice , and immediately drip 2-3 drops into each nostril in the nose. Burying in the nose we spend 3 hours, and so 3 days.

Now we know that in the winter not to suffer from a cold and flu, you need to constantly strengthen your immunity.

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