Keep Yourself Healthy By Protecting Your Health

Keep Yourself Healthy By Protecting Your Health

“Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceeds to conceal himself.” the bible said at Proverbs 22:3. Taking simple protective steps can help you avoid much sickness and misery, as well as loss of time and money.

Here is a few simple step you can do to protect yourself to keep healthy.

Steps 1: Keep yourself clean. Hand washing is the simple most important thing that you can do to help prevent the spread of infection and stay healthy as well. reports the US Center For Disease Control and Prevention. As many as 80 percent of infections are said to be passed on by unclean hands. So wash them often throughout the day. Do so especially before eating, preparing food, or dressing or even touching a wound and do so after touching an animal, using the toilet or changing a baby’s diaper.

Washing with soap and water is more effective than using alcohol based hand sanitizers. Children stays healthier when parents train them to wash their hands and to keep them away from their mouth and eyes. Bathing everyday and keeping your clothes and bed linens fresh and clean also contribute to better health.

Step 2: Avoid infectious disease. Avoid close contact or the sharing of eating utensils with any who have a clod or the flu. Their saliva and nasal secretion can pass the illness on to you. Such blood borne disease as hepatitis B and C and HIV/AIDS are transmitted primarily through sexual contact, intravenous drug use, and transfusion. Vaccination can help to prevent some infections, but a wise person must still take necessary precaution when with someone who has an infectious disease.

Avoid insect bites. Do not sit or sleep outdoors unprotected when mosquitoes or other disease carrying insects are active. Use bed nets, especially for children, and use insect repellents.

Step 3: Keep your home clean. Make whatever extra effort needed to keep your home tidy and clean, inside and out. Eliminate any places where water can collect and mosquitoes can breed. Litter, filth, and uncovered foods and garbage attract insects and vermin, all of which can bring in microbes and cause disease. If there is no toilet, build a simple latrine rather then just relieving yourself in a field. Cover the latrine to keep out flies, which transmit eye infection and other diseases.

Step 4: Avoid injuring yourself. Obey safety laws when working, riding a bicycle or motorcycle, or driving a car. Make sure your vehicle is safe to drive. Use appropriate protecting gear/equipment and clothing, such as safety glasses, headgear, and footwear, as well as seats belts and hearing protection. Avoid excessive sun exposure, which causes cancer and premature aging of the skin. If you smoke, stop now. Quitting now will significantly lower your risk of heart disease, lung disease, and stroke.