Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Mid-Autumn Festival is between the Millennium and the autumnal equinox, and it is the solar term with the largest temperature difference between day and night in a year. How to prevent colds?

Mid-Autumn Festival is between the Millennium and the autumnal equinox, and it is the solar term with the largest temperature difference between day and night in a year. How to prevent colds?

Mid-Autumn Festival is between the Millennium and the autumnal equinox, and it is the solar term with the largest temperature difference between day and night in a year. How to prevent colds?

1. Avoid contact with people who are prone to colds. Especially in the flu season, you must avoid going to crowded places or hospitals. Because there are relatively many cold patients in these occasions, the chance of catching a cold increases. Pay more attention to personal hygiene, such as frequent hand washing and frequent ventilation at home, which can increase air circulation and reduce the possibility of influenza. Pay attention to personal physique, exercise more, drink more water and eat more fruits and vegetables, which can enhance the body's resistance, even if you have a cold, it is easier to recover, or reduce the occurrence of colds.

2. Eating less sodium salt can increase the content of lysozyme in saliva, protect the epithelial cells of mouth and throat, and make them secrete more immunoglobulin A and interferon to deal with cold virus. Therefore, the daily salt content is controlled within 5g, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of colds. Honey contains a variety of bioactive substances, which can stimulate the immune function of human body. Taking it twice every morning and evening can effectively treat and prevent viral diseases such as colds. Sleep more. When people sleep, bacteria in the body will produce a substance called "cell wall acid", which can enhance human immunity and accelerate the recovery of viral diseases such as colds. So sleep is also a kind of treatment, especially for colds.

3. Enhance physical fitness, increase immunity, exercise physical fitness, and often engage in certain aerobic exercise, such as doing aerobic exercise for 30 minutes every day, which is a very effective way to increase physical fitness and prevent colds. Pay attention to the rationalization of diet structure, try to eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins and trace elements, eat a low-salt low-fat low-sugar diet, and eat more whole grains. In the season of frequent colds, we should try to avoid activities in crowded places and avoid cross-infection. Try to go to bed early and get up early, quit smoking and drinking, and drink more water. By drinking more water, you can also metabolize too many toxins and viruses in your body. The temperature difference between seasons will be greater. Wear more clothes in the morning and evening. When working or playing in the sun, you should reduce your clothes appropriately to avoid sweating, otherwise you will catch a cold easily.