Preventive action from Flu

Children under 6 years of age are infected by "virus" on average 6-8 times in year and 2-6 times the time in older children and adults, every time lasting up to a week.

These viruses are transmitted either by direct inhalation of the droplets are ejected at a distance of several meters from anyone coughs and sneezes in air or by contaminated hands.

Viruses bearing can survive for hours on surfaces such as door handles, remote controls and switches, but needed just a couple of hours to spread a virus in a building with many people, as demonstrated by a study presented last month at 54 Interdisciplinary Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Washington.

Whoever touches these surfaces contaminated hands - and if this virus was active and respiratory just bring the virus into the mouth, nose or eyes, he would go inside the body, where they begin to multiplied like lightning to drive within a few days the symptoms of virus infection. 

And the worst is that "in those early days, the patient does not even know that they are infected and transmit the virus in the surroundings.

Preventive action:

Transmission may stop some simple measures, experts say. Do what.

1. Keep warm your nose: When it's too cold to walk the outdoor areas with covered your nose to keep it warm and thus more resistant to attacks by viruses, recommended by Dr. Ron Ekls, professor at the School of Life Sciences and director of the Common Cold Centre at the University of Cardiff, Wales,

2. Avoid handshakes: Scientists from the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, led by Dr. David Ouitgouorth, published last July study showed that the handshake transmits 10 times more germs than what any other hand contact form by hand (fewer transmits the greeting fist with fist).

3. Wash your clothes in hot water: The viruses of respiratory infections surviving washes of 30 and 40 degrees Celsius. Therefore if there is at home sick with viral infection, be sure to wash clothes in hot water.

4. Do not eat sugar: Studies University LomaLinda in California showed that for five hours after eating 100 grams of sugar, immune cells are weaker and less kill harmful microorganisms than normal.

5. Sleep well: Researchers from Yale University found that people who sleep less than seven hours each night are three times more likely to "stick" a cold or virus than those who sleep eight hours or more.

6. Be careful who sits next to you: Studies of the Australian National University in Canberra, showed that those who sit at a distance of two positions by a man with allowance, have a particularly high risk of "stick".

7. Keep open the windows: Studies have shown that the chances of a person to stick one allowance is 99.9% when it is located with a patient in a car with closed windows, but only 20% when the car windows are open.

8. Regularly wash your hands: Scientists from the University of Arizona, led by Microbiology Professor Dr Charles Gkermpa, published a study last year showed that the transmission of cold viruses, influenza and gastroenteritis in an office reduced by 80% with good hand washing before food, before meeting with a large number of people (eg a meeting is) and with frequent disinfection solutions with alcohol in between.

source: Internet