Spring is the most beautiful season of the year, and spring is also the stage of high incidence of some infectious diseases.
What are the symptoms of the flu?
Mild flu symptoms
The onset is acute and mild, and the systemic symptoms (body aches, weakness) and respiratory symptoms (sore throat, runny nose, cough, nasal congestion, and watery eyes) are mild.
Typical flu symptoms
At first, it can manifest as chills, fever, and body temperature can be as high as 39-40, while the patient feels headache, body aches and weakness, accompanied by dry eyes, dry throat, and mild sore throat. Intestinal symptoms, plus nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.
Symptoms of simple influenza
It often has a sudden onset, chills and high fever, and the body temperature can reach more than 39 ~ 40 with headache, muscle and joint pain all over the body, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms, often sore throat, dry cough, nasal congestion, runny nose, retrosternal discomfort, etc.
How can I prevent the flu?
Be physically active
For example, walking, running, climbing, playing ball, boxing, etc., can improve the body's ability to withstand the cold and prevent the occurrence of colds.
Get enough sleep
This is the most basic and important health condition. If you feel like you're about to have an attack, give yourself plenty of time to rest.
Don't let yourself get too tired
Fatigue will make the body weak, easy to be invaded by bacteria, and the cutting machine will accumulate pressure.
Don't overload pressure
Stress can have a negative impact on the body, so keeping a good mood will reduce the chance of catching a cold.
Pay attention to hygiene and ventilation
Maintain personal hygiene and household hygiene. Wash your hands frequently and thoroughly, and avoid touching your eyes, mouth and nose with dirty hands; Cover your sneeze and cough with a tissue to avoid droplet transmission. Keep indoor air circulation, open windows for ventilation in weather with good air quality, and try to avoid going to crowded places during the high incidence of influenza.
Classification of diarrhea
Infectious diarrhea: It is usually caused by infectious factors, such as pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi. Bowel movements can reach more than a dozen times a day, and the stools are mostly thin and watery. Infectious material is often mixed with the stool.
Non-infectious diarrhea: mostly caused by improper diet or cold, such as dietary diarrhea, allergic diarrhea, symptomatic diarrhea, etc.
Prevention of diarrhea
1. Arrange your diet reasonably and pay attention to balanced nutrition
The food should be mainly light, and eat more vegetables and fruits. Be careful not to eat cold drinks and do not overeat at each meal, so as not to overburden the stomach and intestines and damage their functions.
2. Pay attention to drinking water and food hygiene
Drinking water should be drunk after boiling, and food should be separated from raw and cooked to avoid cross-contamination. Leftovers should be stored in the refrigerator for a long time. Heat before serving, subject to heat penetration. Try to avoid eating foods that are prone to pathogenic bacteria, such as snails, scallops, crabs and other seafood, and cook and steam them thoroughly. It is not advisable to eat raw, semi-raw, soaked in wine, vinegar or salted and eaten directly. For salad, add a little vinegar and garlic.
3. Pay attention to personal hygiene, especially food hygiene
Practice good hygiene by washing your hands before eating and after using the toilet; In summer, do not eat at mobile food stalls and restaurants with poor hygiene, and do not eat food while walking on the road; You can't feed your pet while eating. Fruits and vegetables eaten raw must be disinfected and washed before eating.
4. Pay attention to home ventilation and keep the air fresh
Avoid cold, exertion, prevent colds and heat stroke; It is also necessary to strengthen physical exercise, enhance the ability to resist diseases, clean the environment, eliminate flies and cockroaches, avoid contaminating food, minimize contact with patients with diarrhea, and especially do not share catering utensils.
"Beware" of red fire ants
Red fire ants, commonly known as red ants, prefer damp and shady places. It is easy to be bitten if you accidentally step on it. Manifestations:
1. Skin pain: red fire ants are a kind of ants, which are widely distributed, and if the patient is bitten by red fire ants, the local skin will have painful symptoms like fire.
2. Blisters: Blisters are bulges that rise above the skin and contain water. Red fire ants are aggressive towards humans and release venom when they bite, which may cause blisters to form on the skin.
3. Anaphylactic shock: anaphylactic shock is a severe anaphylactic reaction triggered in a short period of time through the immune mechanism after certain antigenic substances from the outside world enter the sensitized body. If a red fire ant is bitten and is allergic to the venom protein, the person may experience anaphylactic shock.
What should I do if I am bitten by red ants?
1. Wash with soap and water
Ants secrete formic acid, and after being bitten by red ants, formic acid will enter the human body, causing local skin redness, swelling, pain, itching and other uncomfortable symptoms. The bite area can be washed with soapy water, which is weakly alkaline, which can neutralize formic acid and relieve discomfort.
2. Local cold compress
Ants' saliva contains certain toxins, after being bitten by red ants, it may cause symptoms such as redness, swelling, pain, itching and other symptoms on the skin, you can use ice packs or ice towels for local cold compresses, which helps to promote capillary constriction and relieve redness, swelling, pain, itching and other uncomfortable symptoms.
3. Oral medications
If the symptoms of local skin redness, swelling, pain and itching are more severe, you can take loratadine tablets, cetirizine hydrochloride tablets and other drugs for anti-allergic treatment under the guidance of a doctor, which can help relieve the uncomfortable symptoms.
4. Topical drugs
The saliva of red ants contains certain toxins, and after the patient is bitten by red ants, it may cause symptoms such as redness, swelling, pain, and itching on the skin.
5. Surgical treatment
If the patient is bitten by red ants and has local skin suppuration, incision and drainage can be performed by surgery under the guidance of a doctor to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms.
In daily life, patients should pay attention to personal protection, avoid going to places with many mosquitoes, and if the discomfort symptoms are more serious, it is recommended that patients go to a regular hospital for treatment in time to avoid delaying the condition. In addition, patients may also experience uncomfortable symptoms such as redness, swelling, itching, etc., and it is recommended that patients go to the hospital for examination in time and treat them reasonably.
Source: China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy China
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