Contents:
- Medical Video: Cold And Flu | How To Treat Yourself At Home
- 1. Meet nutritional intake at dawn and break the fast
- 2. Drink enough water
- 3. Take supplementary supplements
- 4. Using a mask
- 5. Diligently wash your hands
- 6. Sports
Medical Video: Cold And Flu | How To Treat Yourself At Home
Extreme and erratic weather changes make the body prone to various diseases, especially flu. The flu easily attacks when your immune system is declining. The impact not only affects appetite, but the flu also makes your body feel weak and lackluster. Especially if you are undergoing fasting, of course this will make your body more powerless.
Therefore, consider a number of ways you can do to prevent flu during the following fasting.
1. Meet nutritional intake at dawn and break the fast
When fasting, you must control the intake of nutrients and vitamins in food when breaking fast and dawn. Especially vitamins and minerals that are able to improve the immune system and protect the body from getting sick with flu when fasting such as vitamins A, C, E, and zinc.
Some foods recommended for consumption during fasting are sweet potatoes, salmon, low-fat meat; chicken and beef, yogurt, nuts and seeds, green vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, and so on. You can also make a mixture of ginger, lemon, honey and cinnamon that can be consumed when breaking fast to prevent and treat flu during fasting.
2. Drink enough water
During fasting, many people tend to choose foods and drinks that contain lots of sugar compared to water. This is what makes people fasting easily dehydrated. Therefore, you should try to meet the needs of body fluids by consuming water at dawn and breaking fast.
3. Take supplementary supplements
There are some people who have difficulty meeting nutritional intake and vitamins during fasting because of the difficulty in controlling food intake. If this is the case, you can take additional supplements that are consumed when breaking fast and dawn.
Make sure if the supplements you consume have vitamin C and zinc that your body needs to increase the immune system to avoid disease attacks.
4. Using a mask
The virus that causes flu easily spreads in crowded public places, especially during the daytime and hot weather. If you are indeed required to be in a crowded place, protect yourself by using a mask while in a public place. Don't forget to use it too hand sanitizer so as not to be infected with germs and bacteria after making contact with other people and public facilities.
5. Diligently wash your hands
Even though it seems simple, hand washing has good health benefits. If done regularly every time before eating, when going to the toilet, or when or after doing something, this is proven to be able to reduce the risk of bacterial infections and viruses that cause disease, including flu and colds.
So from now on, make it a habit to wash your hands with soap, and do it according to the instructions for proper hand washing. In addition to washing hands, you must also maintain cleanliness around the house or office to avoid the risk of bacterial development.
6. Sports
Fasting is not an obstacle to doing physical activities such as sports. In addition to making the body fit, exercise is also able to prevent you from avoiding various diseases during fasting,
You can do light exercise like walking, cycling, yoga, or going up and down stairs. The ideal time to exercise is one hour before breaking the fast, but the timing of this exercise depends on the resilience of each individual body, the most important after doing exercise you do not feel weak, dizzy or fainting.
