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

An article on how not to get the flu and a cold.

A cold and flu are the most common diseases, starting from autumn, when cold occurs, until spring, when warm days are installed.

These diseases are characterized by the penetration of pathogenic microbes through the mouth and nose into the throat, trachea and bronchi. If microbes have penetrated into our organs, we will learn about this by the appearance of a runny nose, high body temperature, coughing, which last 2-14 days.

And what can be done to get sick less? Let's talk about this in the article.

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

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

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

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

Symptoms of colds:

• A fever of body temperature 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 takes place without severe consequences, then with influenza there is a general intoxication of the body, as well as damage to the respiratory system with the degeneration of epithelial cells and the formation of new viral particles.

Toxins formed as a result of the introduction of the virus into the body and decaying epithelial cells do not affect the heart, blood vessels, nerve cells and other organs.

According to health care, influenza is ill every year 15% of the population of the planet, and death often occurs, especially among children and the elderly.

Symptoms of influenza:

• High body temperature, more than 38 ° C (if the temperature is not more than 39 ° C, doctors do not advise knocking it down with drugs, since the body itself fights with harmful microbes, producing this interferon).
• Swollen tonsils and sore throat.
• Coughing.
• Strong weakness of the body.
• Headache and pain in all muscles of the body.

The flu is transmitted through things, saliva and coughing of a person with a human influenza.

It is very important to pay attention to the symptoms in time, and consult a doctor to take antivirus drugs within 24-48 hours after the onsetThen the disease will proceed easier.

Prevention. To get less viral diseases, you need strengthen immunity:

1. Drink freshly prepared juices.
2. Every day there are salads from fresh vegetables and fruits.
3. Eat 1 seagin every day. a spoonful of honey, you can with tea.
4. Spend at night, sleep for at least 6-8 hours.
5. In the mornings 15-20 minutes are charging.
6. Walk in the fresh air every day.
7. Harden.

They will help to get sick with flu and a cold less preventive mixtures recipes to raise immunity.

Recipe 1. Lemon with honey and ginger

1. Well washed and dried 1 lemon, finely cut with the peel.
2. Add 3-4 tbsp. tablespoons of honey and a small piece (about 1 cm thick) finely chopped ginger, mix everything.
3. We add this mixture 1-2 teaspoon. tablespoons in tea several times a day.

Recipe 2. Walnuts with dried fruits and lemon

This mixture strengthens immunity, useful when overwork and general weakness.

1. Take 1 glass of walnuts, raisins and dried apricots, 1 lemon with a peel and pass everything through a meat grinder.
2. Add 300 g of honey to the mixture and mix.
3. We accept 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day before meals.

Recipe 3. Pasta Amosova

Such a pasta is tasty and useful, in it a bunch of vitamins and trace elements.

1. We take 1 glass of walnuts, raisins, dried apricots, figs and prunes, 1-2 lemon with a peel, and pass everything through a meat grinder.
2. Add 1 cup of honey to the mixture, mix.
3. We eat 1 sekan in the morning. spoon 3 p. per day, you can add to porridge.

Recipe 4. Rosehip decoction

1. 2 tbsp. Grind the tablespoons of rosehip fruits, pour 1 cup boiling water and cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
2. We insist 3 hours in warmth, you can in the thermos.
3. We drink half a glass 2-3 p. for a day.

For the prevention of influenza and colds, you can use aromatherapy at home:

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

Attention. For children under 3 years old, aromatherapy is contraindicated because it can cause severe allergies.

If you wet your legs in cold weather or freezing, then, having come home, do yourself warming bath:

1. Pour 5 liters of hot water into the pelvis, dissolve in it 60 g of mustard powder and baking soda and soar the legs in this water.
2. If the water has cooled, add more hot.
3. We make baths for 20-30 minutes.
4. Then we wipe the legs with a towel, put on warm socks and go to bed.

Personal hygiene rules during the flu epidemic

In order not to become infected with the flu during the epidemic, you need to follow some rules:

1. Do not visit crowded places.
2. If you are in a public place, and there is no way to wash your hands with soap, do not touch your eyes, mouth and nose with your hands or wipe your hands with a disinfectant.
3. Often, throughout the day, rinse your nose with warm water.
4. Wipe the floor daily with a damp cloth.
5. Strengthen immunity.
6. Dress the weather.
7. Try not to hypothermia.
8. Visiting a public place you need to wear a mask.
9. Long before the flu epidemic, visit the attending physician and vaccinate.

What should be mask, and how to wear it correctly?

• The mask must close the mouth, nose and fit tightly to the face so that there are no gaps.
• The mask should be multi -layer.
• It can be worn for 3 hours without removing, and then change the new one.
• While wearing the mask, do not touch her hands.

Measures for the prevention of a healthy lifestyle to protect against diseases by influenza and SARS in adults and children

Hardening

Simple hardening method for children: Wipe the feet daily and the whole body with water, starting from 30 ° C, gradually lowering it to 16-18 ° C.

Little children You need to start harden from 1 month from the genus. These are air baths, gymnastics for infants, bathing.

Turning in the summer for children and adults - walking barefoot, bathing, dousing with water at room temperature, in winter - walk barefoot on the floor in the apartment.

Folk remedies

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

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

Vitamins. To raise immunity you need to drink more vitamin drinks: fruit drinks and juices with honey from cranberries, lingonberries, black and red currants, rosehip infusion, tea from dried and frozen raspberries. Also useful during the flu epidemic are orange and grenade juices.

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

A decoction of rosehips, raspberry leaves, blackcurrant and lingonberries

1. Mix in the same number the fruits of rosehips, raspberry leaves, black currants and lingonberries.
   2. We take 2 tbsp. tablespoons of such a mixture and brew 1 cup boiling water, cook for 10 minutes over low heat, cool, filter.
   3. Drink 0.5 cups 2 p. in a day.

Tea from linden and black elderberry flowers

1. We take the flowers of linden and an elderberry, mix them equally.
   2. 2 tbsp. Pour the spoons of the mixture with 1 cup boiling water, cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
   3. We filter tea and drink hot.

Inhalation. If a runny nose is already beginning, and you feel that you are ill, inhalation help well. Adults can inhalation for 5-15 minutes, children up to 5 minutes.

Inhalation made of boiled potatoes

1. We boil several tubers of potatoes in the peel until cooked.
   2. Wooked potatoes with a thick, drip 2-3 drops of fir oil in mashed potatoes.
   3. We sit over the pan, open it a little, cover us with a towel and breathe this steam for 5-7 minutes.

Fir oil helps from a runny nose: We instill 1 drop in each nostril, 3 p. in a day.

Another recipe used in folk medicine from a cold: Squeeze fresh aloe juiceand immediately drip into the nose 2-3 drops in each nostril. Spend in the nose after 3 hours, and so 3 days.

Now we know that in winter not to get sick of colds and influenza, you need to strengthen your immunity all the time.

Video: the prevention of colds in the smallest. (Supermams)