3 simple methods to prevent A/H1N1 influenza infection

Influenza A/H1N1 virus from the body will die after 2 hours; if more outbreaks in the nose, the mouth can survive 10 days. Therefore, the prevention of influenza A/H1N1 by: hand washing, cleaning the nose, to wear clean pages are simple methods, inexpensive but effective.

In addition, 3 measures also work to protect health for every day people are exposed to environmental pollution.

• Wash your hands properly

Wash hands with soap under running water is best. Market are a variety of soapy water to wash your hands (just 1 drop once for hand washing). Simplest is to use soap cake (from the type of vegetable oil, redolent as: marijuana, chewing flowers ...) just cheap, just as convenient to carry away. Do not use the type of soap kill micro-organism (as it always kill the beneficial bacteria on the skin).

Wash your hands when? Before and after eating, before and after work (especially when in contact with patients; with food and pharmaceutical products in their business, counting money, receive money).

How to wash your hands: 2 wet hands, rub soap and hand it on the other hand, have fingers, nails and water to clean away. Dry hands with a clean dry tissue or paper format.

• Nasal wash

When washing face, people often use hand towels to wash ngoay nostrils, but only clean vành outside, but in the nose of the many people not know how to wash.

Why should clean nose? Activities by regularly breathing continued, in the nose filter the air before entering the lungs, nose and education is contained in several pollution in the air such as viruses, bacteria, fungi because, when reading, dust ...

When should wash nose? To protect the health of the body, the morning after washing face, the evening before sleep. After exposure to environmental pollution such as traffic participants, many of the gas, dust smoke, which cause many diseases in human (treatment, patient care, animal quarantine, animal care breeding; slaughter cattle poultry; environment fumigation, spraying Pesticides; repair, cleaning vehicles, machinery, burned in the engine ...).

When weather climate penance, feel uncomfortable in the nose.

When outbreaks of viruses: influenza A/H1N1, H5N1, SARS, was handed, water park ...

When there are respiratory diseases such as roads: nghẹt nose, flu, allergic nasal inflammation, sore throat, inflammation of mediocre, amydan inflammation, inflammation than waste management, labor lungs ...

To protect public health: wash your nose before washing their hands to do tasks: vaccine injection site, surgery, patient care. Phase of processing, packaging food or drug business in their products.

Care to avoid small transmit viruses, bacteria, fungi because ... study in their nose to the object.

Learn how to clean nose: cúi inclined head, spray into the nasal wash in the nose; use 2 fingers 2 nose wings for the water, such as 2 - 3 new clean Mac is posted in the nose.

For infants age 2 weeks to 2 years old child, so xịt mild nasal wash (can use eye drops 0.9% NaCl a small nose in 2 to 3 drops) and oblique first child for the water, after Dry the baby with the soft clean towels. Children over 5 years old should instruct the children do.

The nasal wash category: general standard of cleaning the nose is the same, in the field of plasma (and the 0.9% NaCl) is called physical saline. On the market there are 2 kinds of water to wash the nose: natural sea water was removed from NaCl type to achieve the function and content 0.9% and 0.9% NaCl. These categories to be in with a spray xịt ray small or Jet.

Self-phase water to wash the nose: get 100g salt food category page (with the function of 85-90% NaCl) to clean water has boiled just enough 1.000ml, stir to dissolve the salt and then boiled again, (we are salt content and 9%). 100ml content and get this, more water was boiled and then 1.000ml just enough to boil 10 minutes we have salt water of the shell as nasal wash (wash the eyes, wash wounds) preserved in bottles eggshell. When washing sprayer nasal myopic additional water nasal washing phase itself.

Effects of nasal wash: mild germicide, co mạch lightweight, lightweight Mac have posted; against more outbreaks in the nose, reduce inflammation of the nose; help to re-create the list Mac nose. Clean and palpitating nghẹt in the nose, making breathing through the nose easily (against nghẹt nose). Cleaning of the pollution in the study đọng nose. Anti-dry nose. Support treatment nasal allergic inflammation.

• To wear clean page

Page to work on preventing the cause of disease in air entry on the nose, mouth. Therefore khẩu page is clean and close the area embracing the nose mouth, if it does not work vice versa (in the first use, distribute and cause the disease to the community). The types of existing sites to:

To page 2 of fabric (also called common khẩu page): there are many stylish fashions (accounting for 90% market khẩu page). Nhược points: only the effect of reducing dust in the mouth, nose to go.

scientific sites (also known as page to surgery) are often used for medical staff when surgery, vaccine injection site, treatment, care of patients; levels for passengers at the airport when translated by viruses such as SARS, influenza A/H1N1, H5N1. Nhược points are not embracing the region close to the mouth, nose, should have been some cases where doctors and medical staff infected and die when care SARS patients in 2002 (France BV. Vietnam - Hanoi) . To ensure safety for users: the production of export sites need improvement design pheu's style, with many sizes for different users to choose the appropriate (as khẩu page N95).

Export pages than active: between layers of cloth are mentally active (220g/m2) than about 10g of export in a page. Than in the work absorbed in air. Also kill the virus, bacteria, fungi because ... or not is not sure who dare (though the distributor is ad prevent the flu virus, so the end of 2002 when the SARS disease, people poured buckets to buy than to active sites with quite expensive).

To kill micro-organism page: page to image pheu N95 model, there are many different users to choose accordingly, embracing the streamlined nose mouth area users. Prevent the cause of the disease have size from 1-10m. Not the details of the patients by cough, sneeze, talk to you. Therefore, the type to use this page for the 3 types of disease are: patients infected with influenza A/H1N1 and H5N1, SARS, tuberculosis lung; medical staff working in the environment has on patients, caregivers, patients infected with the the disease. Export this page only 1 time and all of the medical waste hazardous.

To ensure the required wear to page: need to change the page after the environment from pollution or the end of working hours. Therefore, it should be available to a few pages clean and 1 bag ni-long closed, clean to use the site to contain it. Export processing was used (type page to popular sites and to science), if not in contact with patients, can access to sites with soap and then dried under the sun sun.

If you have contact with patients: to boil water sites in 2% salt to boil in 15 minutes (or you kill the micro-organism soap, soap soak in 15 minutes) then you, lose water to clean and dry surface under the sun heaven. If not do it all by the medical waste hazardous.