So, winter with all its "charms": everyone around has a cold, and temperature changes negatively affect your own body. The disease is about to overtake. However, there are simple but effective methods to avoid getting sick, even when everyone around is sneezing and coughing.
First, the hands. They must be washed more often during this period. After all, the infection enters the body just from the skin of the hands, and with our hands we "catch" it. It has been proven that people who thoroughly wash their hands during an epidemic of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza are half as likely to get sick.
And it is also important to use only your own pen (and not those that lie at the store counters, at the post office, etc.) and carry a bottle with you at all times with an antibacterial agent to use immediately after traveling on public transport, visiting crowded places and etc.
By the way, you need to wash your hands not "how it goes", but correctly: first, thoroughly lather (the friction of the soap on the skin helps to get rid of bacteria) then rinse off under plenty of running water, and then wipe dry (remember: the environment is considered ideal for bacterial reproduction wet).
Secondly, you need to drink more, no matter how "hackneyed" it may sound. Water prevents harmful microorganisms from settling in the human body. And even if you have been in contact with an infectious patient, you yourself will remain unharmed if there is enough moisture in your body. After all, the nasal mucosa serves as a natural barrier to microbes. And if drinking is not enough, it dries up and loses its own protective effectiveness.
Thirdly, no hypothermia! It significantly weakens the immune system, since the immune system will spend all its strength on maintaining a "healthy" "temperature in the body, and it simply will not have enough energy to fight infections. After all, if a person freezes, the protection "turns on" - the blood rushes to the vital organs. And nature does not include arms and legs as such - so they freeze in the first place. Therefore, we all simply need in winter:
- hat and scarf;
- mittens;
- warm shoes.
And further: do not worry! In any case, try not to worry. Stress is one of the most important factors that weaken human immunity.
Can't handle it? Do yoga, meditate. People who practice all of this have much lower levels of cortisol - the so-called "stress hormone". And doctors say: a large content of this hormone provokes morbidity. So try to find time to relax. Moreover, even a quarter of an hour a day is enough for this.
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