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Le Health | how to receive express delivery to be safe? What should I do if I have allergies during the pollen season?

Le Health | how to receive express delivery to be safe? What should I do if I have allergies during the pollen season?

The express delivery of online shopping has arrived, how to collect it safely? At present, the situation of epidemic prevention and control is still grim, everyone in daily work and life can not be taken lightly, here are a few tips for safe delivery -

Try not to buy items shipped overseas or in medium- and high-risk areas of the country

Pay attention to the place of shipment before online shopping, and do not purchase items shipped from overseas or medium- and high-risk areas in China.

Select Contactless Receipt

You can let the courier put the courier at the door, or put it in the courier cabinet, the station, and then take it back by yourself.

Avoid picking up couriers during peak periods when there are many people and reduce gatherings. If there are more people picking up the package, keep a distance of more than one meter to line up and avoid crowding.

Do not take home the courier outer packaging

When going out to pick up the courier, you can wear disposable gloves.

To retrieve the courier outside, you can take the outer packaging apart and throw it into the sorting bin, and do not take the outer packaging home.

Wear a mask in person and keep a safe distance

Some couriers need to sign in person, such as some are cash on delivery, wear a mask before receiving the courier, bring your own signature pen, reduce communication with the courier, and maintain a safe distance.

Pay attention to disinfection and wash your hands

Before unplugging the courier, you can spray or wipe the outer packaging of the courier with medical alcohol or chlorine-containing disinfectant, and you can wait 5 minutes after wiping before disassembling. Note that alcohol is highly flammable and should not be sprayed over large areas.

When unplugging the courier, do not touch the face with your hands, especially avoid touching the mouth, eyes, and nose.

Remember to wash your hands thoroughly after unpacking the courier.

If the courier is placed on the table to be dismantled, remember to wipe the table clean and wipe it with alcohol.

Spring is full of flowers, but for people with allergies, it is another difficult pollen season. Regarding pollen allergy, you need to know these things -

hay fever

Hay fever is an allergic disease. There will be a large amount of pollen in the spring air, and a small number of people will be allergic to pollen, causing a series of manifestations mainly nasal conjunctivitis, including runny nose, sneezing, itchy nose, blocked nose, itchy eyes and other symptoms. Sometimes itchy ears, pharynx, and even the upper jaw may occur.

Pollen allergy or cold?

The common cold usually gets better for a week. However, for rhinitis caused by allergies, the shortest course of the disease should also last for 1 month.

A special and iconic symptom of hay fever is an itchy nose. Colds may have a runny nose, sneezing, or nasal congestion, but they won't itch their noses.

Colds can also feel weak, headaches, dizziness, etc., but the symptoms of pollen allergic rhinoconjunctivitis are usually limited to the nose and eyes.

Three major types of pollen allergens

Pollen allergens can be divided into three broad categories: tree pollen in spring, grass pollen in spring and summer, and weed pollen in autumn.

Spring tree pollen, the northern allergenic pollen mainly comes from poplar, willow, birch, hazelnut, and the southern allergenic pollen comes from poplar, willow, cypress and pine.

The pollen of the grass family in spring and summer is mainly from grasses such as duck grass.

Autumn sensitizing weed pollen mainly comes from artemisia, ragweed, and foliage grass, of which artemisia grass is mostly found north of the Yellow River, and also in the south but relatively rarely.

Le Health | how to receive express delivery to be safe? What should I do if I have allergies during the pollen season?

Stay away from allergens

The most effective way to prevent pollen allergies is to stay away from allergens and go outdoors less during high pollen outbreaks. If you must go out, avoid the period with the highest pollen index around noon, wear an N95 or KN95 mask, wear long-sleeved clothing, and wear goggles. Pay attention to washing clothes after returning home, and try not to leave it outdoors to dry.

Can people with pollen allergies get the COVID-19 vaccine?

At a recent press conference held by the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the immunization program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that there are five main contraindications to the new crown vaccine, and people with pollen allergy are not contraindicated to vaccination. However, if you are allergic in the following three cases, you cannot be vaccinated.

First, those who have been vaccinated with a certain technical route of the new crown virus vaccine in the past cannot be vaccinated; second, they cannot be vaccinated if they are allergic to one of the components of the new coronavirus vaccine; and the third is that they cannot be vaccinated if they have had a serious allergic reaction to other vaccines in the past.

It should be emphasized that when receiving the vaccine, if you are in the acute onset of pollen allergy, especially if there is a serious comorbidity, it is recommended to delay the vaccination of the new crown virus vaccine.

It has always been emphasized to stay on the spot for 30 minutes after vaccination, and the purpose is also to take measures for acute allergies and serious reactions and timely treatment.

(Source: China Weather Network, Science and Technology Daily)

Workers Daily client "Le Health" No. 204

Editor of this issue: Wu Lirong Cheng Lu

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