No snow will lead to dry weather, dry weather, low temperature, is one of the causes of influenza. Winter is the period of high incidence of influenza. It starts from the middle and last ten days of November and lasts until February of the next year. How to prevent influenza in winter? For families with children at home, we must do a good job of prevention.
There is a certain difference between influenza and common cold. According to experts, compared with common cold, local symptoms of influenza, such as runny nose and cough, are often lighter, but its systemic symptoms are often very serious, most of which are persistent high fever, headache, fatigue, etc. the duration of symptoms is longer, and it is easy to have pneumonia, bronchitis, myocarditis and other serious complications.
Prevention of influenza is more important than treatment in dry winter, so we should do the following:
1. Pay attention to health: good health habits are absolutely the first thing. You must wear masks where there are many people going out with flu. In particular, adults should wear masks, because it is often adults who take the virus home, and babies with poor resistance are more likely to be infected than adults. In addition, the flu season should be less to more places, have to go out, frequent hand washing is extremely important, parents and children should immediately wash their hands and change their clothes when they go home. If disease enters by the mouth. Wash hands with disinfectant effect as much as possible. Carry out sterile gel without hand. Even if it is not influenza, it can prevent other diseases from coming into the mouth.
Early to bed and early to rise: especially for children, try to sleep before 10 o'clock. Adequate sleep is very important to improve the body's resistance. Regular diet should pay attention to the supplement of protein food, such as meat, eggs, milk and other high-quality protein. Only enough protein can produce enough antibodies. In order to better fight against temperature changes, children should exercise more at ordinary times. When the weather is good, go outdoors and get plenty of sunshine. Ultraviolet can kill the virus very well.
3. Drink more water. Keeping the mucous membrane of the throat moist is also a good way to prevent virus invasion. Fry food to pause, drink more water, drink more water, important things said three times!
4. Vaccination in advance: due to the variability of influenza virus, new variation may occur every year. So every year, the World Health Organization estimates the influenza virus strain in the next year according to the previous data, and can inject influenza vaccine in October every year. The vaccine is to let the body contact the possible virus strain in advance, and obtain the antibody in the case of no disease or light disease. When it is really contacted, the symptoms can be reduced, or even no symptoms. It is recommended that all children in the family, the elderly over 60 years old and the weak members should be vaccinated.
According to the data of Beijing CDC in November 2018, during November 5-11, the number of influenza like cases reported by hospitals above grade II in Beijing was lower than that of last year and the same period of the previous year; the positive rate of influenza virus test was 1.41%, lower than 7.33% in the same period of last year and 7.92% in the previous year. Since September, Beijing has reported only one concentrated fever caused by influenza virus. Experts from China's centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the level of influenza this year will be lower than last year.
However, since January, the number of influenza outbreaks in various regions is significantly higher than that in the first two months. Based on the analysis of previous influenza monitoring data, December to January of the next year is the peak period of influenza incidence. However, we should not panic, pay attention to prevention and timely treatment.