The Types of Flu and How to Prevent It
In general, flu or seasonal influenza an infectious disease and caused by certain viruses. Flu is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals.Today influenza divided into several types .
Human Influenza
Cause : H1N1 ata H3N2
Symptoms : fever, muscle pain, weakness, loss of appetite, fatigue, cough and colds
Prevention or treatment: The first is to drink Handling febrifuge, enough rest, eating nutritious food, personal hygiene and keep the environment healthy behavior patterns, or influenza vaccinated
Bird Flu
Cause: H5N1
Symptoms: sudden fever above 38 C, cough and sore throat, runny nose (out mucus from the nose), shortness of breath within a few days.
Prevention or treatment: the first handling of hot-lowering medications, if any contact with poultry immediately contact the nearest health services
Prevention: the consumption of cooked poultry meat reaches 80 degrees Celsius, do not eat raw poultry eggs or undercooked.
Swine Flu
Cause: H1N1
Symptoms: fever, cough and sore throat, runny nose (out mucus from the nose), shortness of breath within a few days.
Prevention or treatment: the first drink Handling febrifuge, enough rest, eating nutritious food, personal hygiene and keep the environment healthy behavior patterns, or influenza vaccinated. In addition, you can try another flu treatment.
Healing a cold without medicine
Healing a cold without medicine
Various factors such as tiredness, viruses and stress are the most common factor cause infection in the throat and nose, resulting in the emergence of symptoms of colds such as blocked nose, throat scratchy and your head feels dizzy. Colds will greatly affect the vitality of the body, you can take advantage of some simple things to restore the vitality of the body:
- One of the keys to cure cold is by taking advantage of time off. When you've caught a cold, try to stay at home and rest so as not to worsen and limit the spread of the virus.
- Do not touch the foods containing sugar such as cakes, ice cream and other Content of sugar in the blood will lower your body resistance against infection. it would be best to eat fruit, fruit juice or juice Drink more plain water.
- If under normal conditions you consume 6 up to 8 glasses a day then when you have a cold you should increase water consumption up to 10 cups. Water can wash away the virus from your body in various forms such as sweat and urine.
- If you are first exposed to the throat, then you can gargle with hot salt solution to alleviate the symptoms. You just set up a glass of hot water (80 degrees Celsius) and half a teaspoon of salt. Then the salt solution is put in hot water and gargle for five minutes. After that, you are advised not to drink cold water. Do it 3 times a day.
- However, if you suffer a cold begins with a headache that is not less tortured, you need to do is to soak the feet with hot water. That way the blood will be well into the head so that it can eliminate tightness. In addition, other ways that you can use hot steam that is inhaled. you need to prepare, among others, of newspaper or cardboard, then cook the water by using a pan or pot. Then bring the paper folds that make up the pipe with a pot or kettle. By inhaling steam, nasal congestion will be lost. The way it can be done after soaking the feet.
- If you are lucky hit on the chest cold symptoms with cough and fever. So the use of heat in the chest will help you. The way is easy, do as you do in the throat. First wash cloth with hot water, then prepare a towel to cover your chest. Then put the cloth was washed water and then close up the chest with a towel. Allow to heat loss. If you need to do this three times before bed. When finished, rinse with a towel. Then advised to go to sleep.
- If in a week you are not yet healed, and then comes the other symptoms that need to be suspected contact your doctor immediately.