5 Tips to Minimize the Risk of Getting Infected with Swine Flu
Since early this 2009, swine flu has raised alarms among people across the world. Thousands of people in different countries were reported sick with the disease, and hundreds of people have died of it as well. Swine flu can strike at anyone regardless of age, sex or race, and even healthy people can become affected by this illness.
Despite the pandemic proportions of swine flu has taken , it is nonetheless possible to minimize the risk of being infected by the virus. Here are six tips that will greatly help you lessen your chances of becoming sick with swine flu.
1. Stay healthy. Even though healthy people can still get sick with swine flu, if you are a healthy person, your chances of falling ill because of the virus will become minimal. To stay healthy, you need to eat food rich in vitamins and other nutrients and drink plenty of liquids. You also need to exercise regularly, make sure you have a good night’s sleep, as well as avoid getting stressed out.
2. Keep your hands clean. You can get the swine flu virus by touching a surface contaminated by the virus and then touching your nose, eyes or mouth afterwards. Because you will never know when you will be touching something infected, it is important that you wash your hands frequently, especially before eating.
Use soap and warm water whenever you can and spend around 20 seconds washing your hands each time you do. If soap and warm water are not available, have a bottle of hand sanitizer or isopropyl alcohol around all the time. When you use a hand sanitizer or alcohol, rub your hands until the alcohol has dried off.
3. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. As mentioned above, the swine flu virus can enter your bloodstream when you touch a contaminated surface and then bring your hands to your eyes, nose and mouth. As thus, you should avoid doing that as much as possible.
4. Avoid touching public surfaces. Surfaces in a public place are breeding grounds for germs. So many people pass by these places and you will never know which one is sick and transmitting the swine flu virus. Therefore, you should avoid touching public surfaces like escalator or stairwell rails and doorknobs whenever possible. If you cannot avoid doing so, then wash your hands frequently.
5. Keep surfaces in your household clean. You and other members of your family bring inside the house the germs that you have picked up from outside. If you are not careful, you can leave trails of germs on doorknobs, countertops and other surfaces in your home. As thus, you can prevent the spread of swine flu in your family by keeping these surfaces clean.
It is not that difficult to practice measures that will minimize your risk of being sick with the swine flu virus. But if you do not want to get sick, you need to be vigilant about minimizing your risks.
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