Experts remind: prevent autumn infectious diseases, pay attention to health travel
Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, October 2 (Reporter Lin Juan) Autumn is a time of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases, and the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival is the peak of people's outings.
Xi’an Center for Disease Control and Prevention reminded to pay attention to protection, healthy travel, and prevention of new coronary pneumonia, influenza, infectious diarrhea and other diseases.
Experts said that the current overseas new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to spread. Under normalized epidemic prevention and control, we cannot relax our vigilance. We should minimize outings, do personal protection and hand hygiene, and do a good job of personal and family members' health monitoring.
If you have suspicious symptoms, you should take the initiative to wear a mask, inform the community in time, and seek medical treatment at the nearest location.
Influenza is a respiratory infectious disease caused by influenza virus. The virus spreads directly from person to person.
The virus that lives on the mucous membrane of the nose or throat is transmitted by coughing, sneezing and mucus flying in the air, invading the nasal cavity and throat of others.
The preventive measures include keeping warm, washing hands frequently, ventilating more, and visiting confined places with many people.
Influenza vaccination is the most economical and effective measure to prevent influenza and alleviate severe symptoms of influenza. September and October are the best periods for influenza vaccination.
In autumn and winter, rotavirus infection and norovirus infection are high.
Rotavirus infection and diarrhea caused by norovirus infection are self-limiting diseases. There is no specific medicine. The key to prevention is to improve personal hygiene, food hygiene and drinking water hygiene.
Experts remind that the correct hand washing method should be standardized, and wash with soap and running water for at least 20 seconds.
Do not directly touch ready-to-eat food with bare hands; ensure that high-risk foods (such as shellfish) are thoroughly cooked before eating and avoid cross-contamination in all aspects of meal preparation; try to drink boiled water or drinking water that has passed the hygienic evaluation.
Develop healthy lifestyle habits such as washing hands frequently, not drinking raw water, separating raw and cooked food, and avoiding cross-contamination.