The Right Way To Cover A Cough And A Sneeze!

AAAAAAAAACHOooooooooooo!

It is raining, damp and moldy...the flu season has set-in. The virus travels with ease looking for victims with compromised immunity. People dread to sit next to a sniffling colleagues, co-passengers...they dread the sneeze fearing that they might contract SARS, H1N1(Swine Flu) etc.

In India it is not uncommon to see many sneeze freely, some of them seem to derive orgasmic pleasure in the act unmindful and unapologetic to the people around them. I came across one such passenger during my recent journey from Goa to Pune…and this prompted me to write this piece.

Cupping your hand over your nose and mouth is the most common method followed by us and it is not the right way to sneeze or cough since the next moment you are most likely to touch the telephone, the door knob, your computer keyboard or even greet a friend with a handshake causing the virus to go viral. To help stop the spread of germs, these are some recommended measures

Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue (handkerchief is not a good idea) when you cough or sneeze.
Put your used tissue in the waste basket.
Wash your hands often with soap and warm water for 20 seconds.
If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.

If you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve or elbow, not your hands which I should say is the best of the option that all of us can adopt.

Watch both the videos below and please share this little education among your friends, colleagues, your children, their friends and if possible in their schools.

Elmo & Rosita: The Right Way to Sneeze!

Comments

Fr. Britto Joseph S.J. - Empowering Health Care

Meet my first Guru who reignited my latent passion in nature consonant medicine. Fr. M. Britto Joseph s.j. a Jesuit Priest, belonging to the Madurai Province, is credited with evangelizing and proselytizing Naturopathy and Homoeopathy in India. Affordable and safe health-care has always been a need and it still continues to be a necessity for the majority of the population (middle-class and rural) in India, a country where major share of one’s earning is spent on housing and food, savings are meager, often liquidated by medical and hospitalization expenses. Families often end up in huge debt. A country that enjoys a rich heritage medicine system in the form of Ayurveda and Naturopathy is today a victim of lifestyle diseases that is only burdening the existing inadequate health-care facilities in India. It is against this background we can come to appreciate the value of Fr. Britto’s mission. Fr. Britto has done a yeoman service through his mis...

Black Lung Disease- THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF BREATHING COAL DUST LADEN AIR’

My town Vasco-da-Gama is being ravaged by coal dust. The Indian port town of Goa is a major ore and coal handling hub. The laid back citizenry is in a grip of respiratory disorders which is now trending towards an endemic proportion and this has led to frantic efforts by its people to right every wrong. A wrong, in which the culpability of the government and its statutory bodies responsible to monitor and ensure compliance is beyond doubt. This post hopes to educate and spread awareness on the fate that stares at the people of this town especially the children. Some of the text reproduced here is taken from a study paper in Australia titled ‘THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF BREATHING THE AIR NEAR COAL MINES’. Every occupation bears the risk of some disorder of the other which is commonly termed as occupational hazard. Those who work in salt pans have their share of disorder, and so do those working in iron, lead, and even gold mines. The coal mine work...

Historical Statistical Data on Success Of Homeopathy - Epidemics & Pandemics (Homeoprophylaxis)

Homoeopathy has a long and successful history of its use in epidemics and pandemics. The protocol is based on individualisation based on the mental-emotional makeup, physiological and physical symptoms of the individual. Homoeopathy avers that the 'vital force' or the immunity of the individual is the key to ward off illness and when this is deranged a person falls sick. It advocated lifestyle changes even while taking homoeopathic treatment (Letter to the patient on cheerful methods of life) Also Read: Your Immune System A Time-Tested Vaccine Against Coronavirus However, in the case of an epidemic, a remedy is prescribed when the remedy's proving symptom mirrors the symptom-complex exhibited by the majority of those infected by the actual pathogen. A remedy thus worked out is said to present the ' genus epidemicus ' of the disease. This remedy acts as a preventive (prophylaxis) among the majority or modifies to a milder form among the res...

Individualized Holistic Health Care

Search This Blog