Not only sanitizing your hands is enough. You need to choose right things to eat. You also need right hygienic environment. And many more tips you need to follow, to be safe from monsoon related diseases.
12 Monsoon health tips to follow, to be safe from infections-
1) Cover your nose and mouth with mask-
This is very important. Wearing mask is necessary to be safe from-
- Corona virus infection
- Allergic rhinitis
- Dust allergy
- Pollen allergy
- Infectious respiratory infection
- Common cold
- Inhaling pollution in air, caused due to smoke emitted by vehicles and factories.
2) Sanitize your hands-
This monsoon tip will save you from-
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- Corona virus infection
- Bacterial infection
- Fungal infection
- Ingesting harmful substances on your hands, you handled during work. By washing hands you can prevent ingestion of those substances unknowingly.
3) Maintain social distancing-
It is very important to save you from Corona virus infection and various other infectious diseases that spread through droplet infection.
4) Do not eat from road side vendors-
This is because of hygiene issues. Of outside food, you are not sure whether, they have washed hands or not. Whether they have maintained cleanliness or not, you are not sure of that. But, at home you can maintain cleanliness, hygiene during preparation of your food and snacks. Therefore, consume home cooked food to avoid food poisoning caused from consuming outside unhygienic food.
5) Consume your vitamin C dose from fruits and vegetables-
Monsoon is season of infections. Therefore, to be safe from infections in this season, consume your vitamin C dose from fruits and vegetables. Fruits rich in vitamin C are papaya, orange, mosambi, watermelon. For details, how much vitamin C each of them contain, check these Health Blog videos.
6) Consume fruits immediately after cutting-
This is because keeping them cut for long time, destroy half of their nutrients. Cut fruits are more prone to bacterial contamination.
7) Do not open doors in evening-
This is to prevent mosquito entry inside home.
8) Do not let stagnant water stay for long in and outside your house-
This is because stagnant water is house, where mosquitoes live and breed.
9) Wash fruits and vegetables before consuming-
This is necessary to wash out-
- Pesticides present on their upper layer
- Any bacterial or viral infection present on their surface.
10) Cook food properly-
This is necessary to destroy virus and bacteria present in them-
11) Use mosquito repellents air diffusers at night-
This is to kill mosquitoes entered in house. But switch of your mosquito repellent at night, to prevent their excessive inhalation. This is to prevent their harms.
12) Cut your nails regularly-
This is because underneath of nail beds, lot of dirt collects. In that dirt bacteria and virus grow easily. You can consume them during eating and cooking food, if you don’t cut your nails.
So, that was all regarding 12 Monsoon tips to follow, to be safe from infections.