Penza reminded how to protect against influenza and SARS in public transport

Respiratory etiquette is a set of personal hygiene rules that help not to spread the infection when coughing and sneezing. In the season when respiratory diseases are transmitted by airborne droplets, their observance significantly reduces the risk of spreading influenza and SARS.

Not a lot of rules. When coughing and sneezing, you need to cover yourself with a handkerchief, preferably a disposable paper one, which is immediately thrown away. After public places, transportation, returning home, visiting sanitary rooms and before meals, it is important to wash your hands thoroughly with soap. Try not to touch your lips, nose and eyes. It is useful to wash the nose regularly, for example with an aqueous solution of salt. It is worth staying away from coughing and sneezing people, at a distance of at least a meter. In public transport, in crowded places and in close contact, you need to wear a medical mask along with other methods of prevention: gloves and hand sanitizers.

Other personal prevention measures should be added to the rules of respiratory etiquette. Avoid close contact with a sick person: pathogens when coughing and sneezing fly airborne droplets about a meter around. Refuse hugs, kisses and welcome handshakes. Do not touch the mouth, nose and eyes with unwashed or untreated antiseptic hands, although such touches a person unconsciously makes an average of 15 times per hour. In the midst of an epidemic, try not to be in crowded places and at mass events, or at least reduce time there.

It is important to remember that the causative agents of influenza and SARS remain active for some time on different objects and surfaces: door handles, household accessories, handrails in transport, phones. Therefore, periodically wipe with antiseptic personal electronic devices: phones, tablets, laptops and other gadgets.

From the flu, the most dangerous seasonal respiratory infection, there is a reliable protection. Timely vaccination remains the main means of preventing influenza and possible complications.

If the disease could not be avoided, you need to consult a doctor. Do not try to transfer the disease on your feet: it threatens complications for the sick and dangerous for others.