@Everyone, take care of yourself in the New Year's "cover"
Faced with the complex epidemic prevention and control situation and frequent respiratory diseases, wearing a mask should be adhered to as a personal hygiene habit.
Editor's note
"Your sense of the times, my sense of the times, is to live a healthy life every day..." The opening song of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger sang the voice of the public.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a new year has arrived.
At the beginning of the new year, you may have made a year's work plan, travel plan, and baby-raising plan, and has the health plan at the bottom of the pyramid been planned?
Good health is not achieved overnight. If you want to have health, you must not only acquire health knowledge, but also overcome yourself in your living habits and accumulate it bit by bit.
Starting today, Changsha Evening News, together with disease control experts and medical experts, will work with you to formulate a New Year's health plan, and will launch a series of reports from the aspects that are most concerned by citizens and recommended by experts.
In the new year of 2022, in the four seasons of reincarnation, we will create a healthy life that belongs to us.
Changsha Evening News all media reporter Yang Yunlong
Put on a mask and prepare hand sanitizer or disinfectant wipes... Every day when he goes out, Xiao Yang, who works in a public institution in Changsha, has to repeat this process.
"When I was 28 years old, I had never taken personal hygiene so seriously," Xiao Yang said.
During the epidemic prevention and control period, everyone paid more attention to protection and tried their best to prevent the virus from infecting themselves, especially wearing masks. "For more than two years, I feel like I have worn all my masks for the rest of my life." Xiao Yang said with a smile, "The epidemic has Everyone reminds us that you must wear masks when entering and leaving crowded places like hospitals, shopping malls, etc. This is your responsibility."
Not only Xiao Yang, everyone is the first responsible person for their own health.
Faced with the complicated situation of epidemic prevention and control and the frequent occurrence of respiratory diseases, Hunan disease control experts and medical experts jointly issued a New Year's Health Initiative: Wear a mask!
wear mask!
windfall
More people voluntarily wear masks, and fewer people catch a cold
Since the World Health Organization declared the spread of the novel coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020, the novel coronavirus pneumonia pandemic has entered its third year.
Diseases are constantly changing the way people live.
Careful friends have found that during the epidemic prevention and control period, the public has increased their awareness of protection, more and more people are voluntarily wearing masks, and there seem to be fewer people around them suffering from respiratory diseases such as flu and common cold.
This is indeed the case.
Compared with previous years, the number of children admitted to the respiratory specialist clinics of many children's hospitals in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Changsha and other places has decreased to varying degrees.
According to chief physician Rao Huaping, the academic director of respiratory medicine at Hunan Children's Hospital, the hospital's respiratory specialist outpatient clinic received 112,800 children in 2019, including 50,641 children with asthma, including typical bronchial asthma and cough variant asthma, accounting for 50,641 patients. 45%.
In 2020, under the strict prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the public's awareness of wearing masks has generally increased, the incidence of infectious diseases has decreased, and the number of respiratory specialist outpatient clinics has decreased compared with 2019.
A recent study by The Lancet shows that wearing a mask can reduce the likelihood of contracting the virus from 17.4% to 3.1% in an environment with a risk of transmission, which can reduce the risk by more than 80%.
All of these data show that wearing a mask is very important.
@Pediatricsurgery Dr. Pei launched a poll on Weibo: "Assuming that wearing a mask all the time can reduce the chance of catching a cold by half in your life, would you like to wear a mask for the rest of your life?"
The vote sparked heated discussions among netizens:
@一大白羊: Wearing a mask reduces not only the chance of catching a cold, but also other viruses that are spread through the air and droplets, like the new coronavirus. Who knows when the next virus will appear?
Therefore, I will wear a mask when I go to crowded places in the future.
@OUYANG: Hey, now I don't feel safe going out without wearing a mask, I always feel like I have no clothes on my face.
@ Straight to Straight Go: Although I don't want to wear a mask for the rest of my life, I must wear a mask whenever I have a cold.
Some netizens said that wearing a mask is like a "large-scale real fragrance scene". When I was forced to wear a mask before, I felt panicked; now, "not wearing a mask feels like running naked."
In ancient times, pharmacies would hang a pair of couplets: I hope people in the world are free from diseases, why worry about medicines and dust on shelves.
When the epidemic is over, if everyone retains good habits such as wearing masks and washing hands frequently, and keeping all kinds of minor diseases out of the door, it is not an unexpected gain to "give dust on the shelf".
Expert reminder
Carry a mask with you, wear masks scientifically
"Wearing a mask should be adhered to as a personal hygiene habit." Dr. Liu Fuqiang, director and chief physician of the Emergency Office of the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that wearing a mask can not only prevent new coronary pneumonia, but also prevent common cold, influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases.
In addition, wearing a mask can effectively reduce exposure to allergens, thereby preventing allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma.
"At present, the overseas new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading, and the local sporadic cases and clustered epidemics in many provinces and cities in China have continued, and the epidemic prevention and control situation is still severe. Citizens should continue to adhere to the concept of strengthening their own health first responsible person, and do a good job Daily personal health monitoring and personal protection." Liu Fuqiang said that citizens should develop good hygiene habits, carry masks with them, wear masks in a scientific and standardized manner, wash hands frequently, ventilate often, avoid gatherings, use public chopsticks, cover mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, When arriving mail or items (especially international mail express), wear masks and disposable gloves correctly to avoid direct contact, and cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control regulations such as temperature measurement, code verification, and one-meter distance in public places.
"Under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, citizens understand that it is necessary to wear masks scientifically, and 'bringing' a mask is as important as 'wearing' a mask." Liu Fuqiang reminded the public to develop the habit of carrying a mask with them when going out every day. Pay attention to wearing a mask:
When in crowded places such as shopping malls, supermarkets, cinemas, venues, exhibition halls, airports, docks and public areas of hotels;
When taking van elevators and public transportation such as planes, trains, ships, long-distance vehicles, subways, buses, etc.;
When in outdoor places such as crowded open squares, theaters, parks, etc.;
When visiting a doctor or escorting in a hospital, when receiving a health check such as a temperature check, a health code check, and a registered itinerary;
When symptoms such as nasopharyngeal discomfort, coughing, sneezing and fever occur;
When not eating in restaurants or canteens.
"Pose" update
You need to get this knowledge about wearing masks
However, some people don't care about wearing masks.
Therefore, when sitting on the bus, you will see people wearing masks with their noses exposed; when eating, many people wear masks on their arms or pull the masks to the chin; some people think that wearing masks for a few days is good Clean, you don't have to change so frequently; some people think that they have been vaccinated against the new crown, and it doesn't matter if they don't wear a mask...
In this regard, Liu Fuqiang said that the correct use, storage and cleaning of masks are the keys to maintaining their effectiveness.
According to the "Guidelines for Wearing Masks by the Public and Key Occupational Groups (August 2021 Edition)", the public should pay attention to the following when wearing masks on a daily basis:
1. Wear the mask correctly, ensure that the mask covers the mouth, nose and chin, and the nose clip should be compacted;
2. Masks should be replaced in time when they are dirty, deformed, damaged, or smelly, and the cumulative wearing time of each mask should not exceed 8 hours;
3. It is not recommended to reuse masks used on cross-regional public transportation or in hospitals and other environments;
4. Masks that need to be reused should be hung in a clean, dry and ventilated place when not in use;
5. If you experience discomfort such as suffocation and shortness of breath while wearing a mask, you should immediately go to an open and ventilated place to remove the mask;
6. Carry spare masks when going out and store them in the original packaging bag or a clean storage bag to avoid extrusion and deformation. Discarded masks are classified as other garbage disposals;
7. It is recommended to keep some high-level masks at home, such as particulate protective masks, medical protective masks, etc. When family members go to the hospital with symptoms such as nasopharyngeal discomfort, coughing, sneezing and fever, wear higher-level masks to protect themselves , also protect others.
One of a series of reports on "New Year's Health Plan"