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Female Focus
Some tips on how to prevent colds and flu?
The flu vaccine can prevent you from catching flu. Apart from that, the best way to protect yourself from colds and flu is to have a healthy lifestyle. Eat a healthy diet, take regular exercise and drink plenty of warm drinks in the winter months. Most people are going to catch a cold in winter, because there is no effective cure for cold viruses. Need a reminder about the best cold preventing practices? Read on.
1. Wash and dry those hands - Go for both quality and quantity with your hand washing routine. Wash frequently (more than you think you need to) and scrub for at least 20 seconds a pop. Make sure to dry hands completely on a clean towel to prevent immediately picking up more germs with damp hands.
2. Sanitise your surfaces - Everything you touch is a potential germ catalyst so be extra diligent to keep your frequently used items clean, especially if other people are touching them as well. After all, germs can live on many surfaces for up to 48 hours. Your mobile? It’s probably filthy. Your keyboard? Germ factory. Take a few minutes each day to sanitise some key things and you could be saving yourself weeks of sick days.
3. Sleep is your best friend - Just do it. Treat your body right and it’ll return the favour. Sleep is the most restorative thing you can do to keep your body functioning optimally so log plenty of sleeping time between the sheets and hopefully you’ll wind up logging fewer miserable sick days in bed.
4. Boost your immune system - Keep your defenses in good shape so that the germs you do encounter can be deflected. Reduce stress in any way that works for you, try acupuncture which has been shown to boost immunity and think about beginning a regular probiotic routine which can help strengthen your gut and ward off problems.
5. Stock up on medication (just in case) - Even though you’re doing everything in your power to stay well, if you do succumb to a bug, the last thing you’re going to feel like doing is going to the chemist. Keep necessities (and maybe a few extra sick day treats) in the house and maybe, just maybe, Murphy’s law will work in your favour for once.
These may seem obvious but now if we all put them into practise there should be far fewer colds doing the rounds this year.
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