How to Protect Ourselves from Corona virus

Symptoms on Coronavirus:

People could also be sick with the virus for 1 to 14 days before developing symptoms. The most common symptoms of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are fever, tiredness, and dry cough. Most people (about 80%) get over the disease without having special treatment.

More rarely, the disease is often serious and even fatal. Older people, and other people with other medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease), could also be more susceptible to becoming severely ill.

People may experience:

cough
fever
tiredness
difficulty breathing (severe cases)

How Coronavirus spreads?

There is currently no vaccine to stop coronavirus disease in 2019.
The virus is claimed to be spread mainly from person-to-person.
Between those who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
When an infected person coughs or sneezes.
Respiratory droplets of an individual can land within the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

Steps to Protect Ourselves from the virus:

Clean your hands

Wash your hands often with soap and water especially after you’ve got been in an exceedingly very public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
Use a hand sanitizer just in case of no soap and water.
Avoid touching your face with unwashed hands.

Avoid close contact

Avoid close contact with those that are sick.
Put distance between yourself and others if coronavirus is spreading in your community.

Steps to protect others:

Stay back home if you are sick and consult a doctor and get medical aid.
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or a cloth when you cough or sneeze.
Throw used tissue papers within the trash or dustbin.
Wash your hands with water and soap immediately after coughing or sneezing.
Wear a facemask if you are sick or prevent going out if you are sick.
Do not wear a face mask if you are not sick. Facemasks may be in short in supply for the doctors or the people who are sick.
Keep your surroundings neat and clean. Use disinfectants to clean the items which will be in use daily.

January 11, 2020May 12, 2020

Top 10 ways to get rid of cold.

A chilly begins once a plague attaches to the liner of your nose or throat.

Here are some symptoms of the cold:

Sneezing
Runny nose
Cough
Sore throat
Low fewer

Now how to protect ourselves from cold?

Top 10 ways to get rid of the cold:-

1.Vitamin C

A study said that vitamin C is a very good solution for cold reducing. It will not kill the cold completely, but it can help you to reduce the cold. Whenever you notice any symptoms of cold, then taking vitamin C would be the best choice.

2.Zinc

Zinc is also a way to cure a cold. Zinc helps to reduce the life of the cold and help you to get rid of a cold quickly.

3.Garlic

Using garlic will help you to fight with cold and, it reduces the risk of catching a cold. Garlic contains allicin in it, which works as a medicine and heals the cold. So whenever you get a cold, you can use the garlic as a medicine.

4.Drink hot water

Whenever cold caught you, try to be hydrated by drinking plenty of warm water, which is very helpful to reduce the cold and to maintain your body temperature properly. Drinking warm water while cold is one of the best methods and used by many people and get benefited. Warm water may also help you to lose your weight and give you a pimple-free face.

5.use warm salt water to clean your nose

Using warm salt water to clean your nose while cold will help you to avoid the runny nose and give you better sleep at night. It is an effective way to get relief from cold. Use warm salt water whenever cold caught you, and stay healthy.

6.Breath in steam

Breathing in steam is a natural method to reduce cold. What you have to do is, just boil some amount of water till some steam comes, and then keep your head near the hot water and take a breath in the steam. Make sure that the steams should enter into your nose.
Note: Don’t take too much hot water that burns your nose’s hair.

7. Don’t go outside

Going outside when you have a cold could be bad for your health, it can increase the life of cold as you go outside more viruses came and may be caused by cold.

8. Take a good rest

Stay at home until your cold reduces. Take rest and better sleep. And try to stay away from cold drinks etc.

9. Use clean utensils.

Always wash your utensils before using them. And wash your hand before having a meal. Always be cleaned and maintain a hygienic lifestyle.

10. Consult with Doctor

If you are not feeling better or your cold is not healing, you must have to meet the doctor and consult about your cold. Then follow his instructions carefully.

The above were the 10 tips or ways that help you to get rid of a cold quickly.
Stay healthy and stay fit.

August 21, 2019May 9, 2020

How can Workout be Addictive?

So you realize you need to be fit, you are motivated and you take the first step and join a gym. You pay the membership fee, buy new gym clothes (and new shoes too) for a workout. Day 1 goes fine, you come out tired but excited. Day 2 looks good. You skip Day 3 because you have some super important things that you need to do on this day. After a few days, you are seen only intermittently at the gym and after some time you realize that it has been more than a month since the last time you went to the gym.

Whether you decide to go to a gym or choose any sport, cycling, running, walking, etc., it is very common that your motivation level goes down and the physical workout goes down in the priority list.

How to keep the motivational levels high and get into the habit of working out?

You must show up consistently at the designated spot and time, every day. When you decide on the location for your workout, choose a place that you like going to, your favorite park, or a stretch of a road with lots of greenery, or a gym with a good ambiance.
Set a time during the day that you are least busy, that time when you won’t be interrupted with family or work-related chores. Early morning is the best time to exercise, especially for outdoor activities. Air quality is good and no interruptions.
There will be some days when you will feel lazy and not feel like working out. Even these days, show up at the place.
Tag along with a buddy who follows his fitness regime religiously.
If you are the type of person who does not like monotony, choose different activities for different days of the week.
Set some goals for yourself, if you can run for 3 kilometers effortlessly, aim for a few extra meters for the next day. There are a lot of mobile apps that can record your activity. You can use the mobile app to keep track of your progress to motivate yourself and motivate others.

Remember that the choices that you make every day determine how your body behaves, do you want your body to be in your control or do you want to hand it over to doctors, diagnostics, medicines, etc?

July 5, 2019May 9, 2020

Sitting is the new Smoking

Smoking is injurious to health. A cigarette is made from 4000 chemicals out of which 43 are carcinogenic i.e. cancer-causing. There are around 120 million smokers in India. 4 lakh deaths are due to smoking. This tobacco epidemic seems to have got a new competitor, the sedentary epidemic.

People with a sedentary lifestyle and smokers are now on the same boat. They both have the risk of dying ten years earlier than any other normal adult.

Some of us have jobs that require 6-10 hours of sitting in front of a desktop. Some of us can’t stop watching an engaging web series. We think merely sitting for so long won’t harm us. But we are doing a mistake in thinking so. Sitting for long durations, without any other physical activity can cause great harm to our body and mind. The dangers are the same as the dangers caused by smoking. Sitting has become the new smoking.

The most severe effect sitting for prolonged hours has in the body is on the heart and its circulatory system. Our blood vessels and their master – the heart is made in such a way that they require the body to be upright for working properly. When we sit, our blood flow slows down. The fatty acids in the blood burn slowly. As a result, they start accumulating in the blood vessels. This paves the way for coronary heart diseases and cardiovascular disorders. There is an increased risk of a heart attack or even heart failure. Obesity is the second most obvious consequence of a sedentary lifestyle. Clinically, obesity results from taking more calories than required. Our body burns very little calories when we are sitting. It doesn’t require as many calories as we eat for our breakfast or lunch. These excess calories take the
shape of fat layers and get stored, unnecessarily in the body. These excess calories are a storehouse of diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, and high blood pressure. People with obesity are more likely to possess metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a group of symptoms and risk factors leading to multiple diseases together which include diabetes, heart diseases, high blood pressure, high triglyceride levels, low levels of good cholesterol, and high levels of bad cholesterol.

Not just our body and heart, sitting without interruption for long at our work desk has ill effects on our brain. It affects memory power. our brain’s ability to remember and its daily functioning is impaired. Gradually it leads to a condition called dementia. Dementia is a group of symptoms that affect at least two more brain functions. Although it is not a disease, it turns chronic over several years and can cause serious mental and social implications.

The hip and leg muscles are also affected. Sitting in the wrong posture, makes the gluteal muscles lengthen. Hip flexors become tight. As these muscles work unusually, the other muscles in the body have to work differently to compensate. This gives rise to frequent body aches and poor body alignment. Lastly, it is surprising yet true, according to recent research, that sitting for long can cause cancer. The answer to how it is possible is still not known.

Meanwhile, researchers have also found out that the cure to conditions arising from sitting more, is sitting less. If your work demands you to sit for many hours, you need to get up, walk for around 5 minutes, and then resume work. Small breaks in every 45 minutes is a very big step towards preventing harm to the body. By far, it is found to be the best method to tackle the complications of sedentary living. Physical activity is very important. An adult should exercise at least one hour every day. While making a choice out of many ways of spending our time, we ought to ensure that we chose a way that restores our lost energy
and cheers us up. A hobby or game can give us much needed physical and mental relaxation. Yoga can help reduce stress and anxiety. We should involve ourselves in something that keeps us alert, active, and youthful. Only then we will be able to live our life contently and without any fear of diseases.