Series II of Influenza A(H1N1)———Stop Spreading, Prevent First

When the Influenza A(H1N1) (formerly known as swine flu) becomes more and more threatening, the whole world has entered into a state of readiness, every country, every organization has been actively taking prevention measures. Therefore then, how should an individual take effectively measures to defend against it? The most fundamental way is to improve their own immunity, strengthening the defense capability against virus. Generally, there are workable ways below: vaccination, supplementing nutrition, adopting a healthy lifestyle, making use of traditional Chinese medicine and adjusting living environment and so on.

However, at the beginning of the emergence of new variant virus, there is often no weapons to resist against it (no vaccine can be vaccinated), and the living environment is often not controllable for individual, in addition, ordinary person's knowledge of preservation of traditional Chinese medicine is often relatively weak, it should also be insisted on so as to have a better effects. Therefore, the best way to improve the immune system is by other approaches. Remember, under the circumstances of gradually spreading of the Flu, everyone must not be neither careless nor inadvertent, nor to let the things drift as if they do not affect us directly. After all, virus is relentless, its invading and attacking are also unpredictable. So all the individuals should be responsible for their own health, all relating matters, no matter it is big or small, and should be paid fully attention.

Balanced Nutrient Intake--First Principle of Ensuring Your Healthy Life

In order to ensure that the body would coordinatedly operate under adequate nourishment environment, improve its immunological competence, people should pay more attention on balancing their diet and adequate nourishment of nutrients. It is necessary to keep on supplementing some healthy products which are nutritious and healthy so as to enhance the immunity of human body, then the body would be fearless about all kinds of virus. It could be said without exaggeration that the truly effective weapon to resist against Influenza A (H1N1) (formerly known as swine flu) is to enhance their immune system and improve their autoimmunity.

Maintain Regular Physical Activities--Second Principle of Ensuring Your Healthy Life

Movement could ensure the adequate oxygen supply of the cell, speed up the metabolism, maintain the flexibility of blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation, be conducive to the metabolism, repatriation and vigorousness of the organ, adjust the excitement and inhibit the balance of the pallium, regulate psychological balance, reduce fatigue and improve disease resistance.

Maintain Scientific and Reasonable Lifestyle--Third Principle of Ensuring Your Healthy Life

The power of habit is enormous, a healthy lifestyle can agglomerate the vitality of life by slow accumulation, and unreasonable way of lifestyle will diminish the vitality of people and even threaten to your health. Further more, everyone should pay more attention on keeping personal health and trifling matters of daily life. First, adequate sleep is necessary, it is the best way to preserve energy and the most important part of healthy life; Second, we must develop a good personal hygiene, frequently wash your hands with soap and fresh water, especially after coughing or sneezing or contact with public materials, then we could touch our eyes, mouth and nose; disinfecting with alcohol is preferable; You should also cover your mouth and nose when other people sneeze or cough, in addition, the room should maintain the ventilation so as to reduce the chance of being invaded by virus.

Apart from the above mentioned, people should also do the following to resist against current flu epidemic: avoid contacting with pigs or proceeding to locations where pigs live, avoid placing yourselves in the midst of crowd, if flu symptoms happening out of borders, you should immediately see a doctor (wearing masks), and report it to a local public health agency and inspection & quarantine organization.

Animal husbandry and veterinary experts pointed out that summer is the season when the Influenza A happens frequently, if prevention and controlling measures taken are not as proper as they should be, a large scale outbreak would be not impossible. So we must take care of ourselves, cherish our healthy body and life, and to do all possible to resist against disease.