Tips to Prevent Common Cold
Published On Jan 14, 2021 5:30 AM By Sakshi Aggarwal
In winter and spring, most people get a common cold, but you can get a cold at any time of the year. Symptoms such as a runny nose, headaches, cough, sore throat, stomach aches, and sneezing are common when you get a cold. Adults have 2-3 colds a year on average, and kids have even more. Usually, within 7-10 days, most people recover. However, severe infections, such as pneumonia or bronchitis, may occur in individuals with weakened immune systems, respiratory problems, or asthma.
Tips to Prevent Common Cold
While it is difficult to avoid the spreading of cold entirely, there are precautions you can take to minimize the risk of getting a cold.
1. Wash Your Hands Often: This is potentially the safest single step for the avoidance of cold transmission. Hand washing is important, particularly after shopping, spending time in public areas, or going to the gym. Repeated hand washing will kill viruses you get when touching surfaces touched by infected persons.
2. Avoid Touching Your Face: Through the areas around your mouth, eyes, and nose,viruses can enter your body. If you are exposed to a person having cold, it is vital to avoid touching your face, particularly if you have not cleaned your hands.
3. Use Disposable Items: If you have a cough, use your own disposable items such as cups, plates, and utensils and dispose of them after using them. This is extremely beneficial if there are kids in the house who may want to take have food from other plates
4. Keep Household Surfaces Clean: To ensure them germ-free, clean all household surfaces regularly. After being touched by an infected person, viruses will survive on surfaces for many hours. Pay attention to the places you touch most regularly and clean them using water and soap, or chlorine, or disinfectant cleaners.
5. Wash Toys: Children are more likely than adults to catch a cold, and sometimes the common cold virus spreads through toys. Clean your kid's toys too when cleaning all household surfaces.
6. Use Paper Towels: Cloth towels will harbor viruses after being touched, much as surfaces do. Using paper towels to tidy up in the kitchen and to rinse your hands after washing, prevents contamination.
7. Throw Away Used Tissues: Used tissues are a source of viruses that can contaminate surfaces where they are left, hence it is important to throw them away after use.
8. Avoid Stress: Research has found that people with chronic stress are more likely to catch a cold as their bodies are less able to combat it because their immune systems are weakened and their normal anti-inflammatory response does not function as well as it must.
9. Have a Healthy Lifestyle: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, sufficient sleep, proper diet, and regular exercise will help guarantee that, if anything happens, the immune system is in good shape and able to combat infection.
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Conclusion
By contact or touch of a person who has a cold, colds are most commonly transferred from one person to another. Virus-containing droplets can be coughed/sneezed into the air by an infected individual and inhaled by another. By following a few easy steps, you will lower the chance of catching a cold.
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Disclaimer: This article is issued in the general public interest and meant for general information purposes only. Readers are advised not to rely on the contents of the article as conclusive in nature and should research further or consult an expert in this regard.
