How to save your home if you get sick with the flu?

If, despite all the precautions, you still get the flu, you need to take care of your family so that no one gets infected. As you know, the flu is a viral disease, which is transmitted by airborne droplets. Therefore, from the source of infection healthy people need to stay away.

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Simple measures to prevent influenza at home

• Do not contact the patient or go to him in a mask.
• Do not approach the patient closer than 2 meters, or approach him in a mask.
• Wash hands with soap after each visit of the patient, cleaning in his room, visiting the toilet.
• Be sure to cover your nose and mouth during coughing and sneezing.
• Use napkins or disposable nasal handkerchiefs.
• Keep the child away from the sick person.
• Continuously ventilate the patient's room. In the cold season, it is enough to do this up to 4 times a day for a quarter of an hour. At this time the patient must necessarily be taken out of the room.
• The air temperature in the room of a patient with influenza should not be above 20 degrees Celsius, but it should not be lowered below.
• Every day, do cleaning in the sick room and in the whole house with disinfectants.
• It is good to get enough sleep and enter vitamins to boost the immune system.

The most important thing is not to go to work sick. Your patriotism will only be harmful to you and others. After feeling the first signs of malaise, you need to stay home for a week from the date of the disease. And, of course, follow the recommendations written above. Especially those that concern personal hygiene.

If the doctor prescribed medications for you - antiviral drugs that destroy influenza viruses, or antibacterial, if the flu is accompanied by another serious illness, such as pneumonia, do not disregard these instructions. Do not stop drinking medication even if you are much better. It is necessary to complete a complete course to finish off the enemy - viruses and pathogens, otherwise the flu can return with more severe complications.

Features of care for ailing influenza

You can not be looked after by a pregnant woman or a child.

It is advisable that only 1 person from the family take care of the patient.

It is necessary to provide for the patient with flu separate dishes and hygienic supplies - soap, towels, clothes.

All family members should not neglect medical masks and hand washing.

It is necessary to ensure that the medical masks of all members of the family change at intervals of three hours, otherwise the microbes on them can infect a healthy person. If you use the mask correctly, clinical studies show that you can reduce the risk of contracting influenza viruses by 80%.

In addition to precautionary measures against influenza, it is possible and necessary to use chemoprophylaxis in combating it. First of all, they are flu medications such as arbidol, alpha-pharon, influferon and ointments with interferon in the composition. Alfaron and influferon are drops that help a person cope with a cold in flu and protect the nasal passages from viruses.

To prevent influenza, as well as to cope with its first symptoms, such agents as kagocel, tsikloferon and amixin are used, these drugs are based on interferon inducers.

Phytotherapy as a prophylaxis against influenza

There is another good way to protect yourself from the flu or reduce its negative impact on the body. This is phytopreparations. They effectively fight against influenza viruses and accelerate the process of recovery if the flu has already spread to the body. Few people know, but even in ancient Greece doctors used lemon, honey and cloves as a cure for flu.

What should I use to prevent influenza?

First of all, it's the famous garlic and onions. Despite their apparent simplicity, these are really effective remedies for influenza. In their composition there are special substances - phytoncides, which fight against the flu and help a person to recover quickly.

• Mint is an excellent means for inhalation. In addition, that mint destroys viruses, it is also pleasant to the taste.
• Drinks from dog rose - an excellent immunostimulant. In the dog rose are many useful substances that help a person cope with the flu and its manifestations. Only brew it preferably not with boiling water, but water with a temperature of 80 degrees. So less will be destroyed vitamins, which are contained in the dog rose.
• Sea buckthorn is an excellent tool for healing wounds, and in order to give the body an increased dose of vitamins. Seabuckthorn can be brewed in tea, and it is an excellent remedy for flu.

Prevention of flu requires us not so much money as careful care of ourselves. Therefore, if you get sick, you can easily save your family from the flu with the help of simple means of prevention. And if they are healthy, then these funds will help you not to get infected with the flu.