Hygiene is directly related to health, both mental and physical. When you keep your home clean and germ-free you automatically feel refreshed and keeps away insects and germ-related problems. In most situations, cleaning alone removes most virus particles on surfaces. Some of the aspects you can start with are
Make sure you use the suitable product to clean different surfaces and objects and if you have COVID-19 infected individuals at home then the frequency of cleaning must increase to keep the area virus and germ-free.
While you stay home, monitor your health for COVID-19 symptoms. Be alert for symptoms. Watch for fever, cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID-19. If you are running essential errands, going into the office or workplace, and in settings where it may be difficult to keep a physical distance of 6 feet, then it is important to keep tracking your health. Take your temperature if symptoms develop.
Just remember to not take your temperature within 30 minutes of exercising or after taking medications that could lower your temperature and not give you an accurate result.
Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing. It’s especially important to wash hands before eating or preparing food, before touching your face, after using the restroom, after leaving a public place, after handling your mask, after caring for someone sick. If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry. Please avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with an unwashed hand.
Come rain, come storm, make it a point to exercise regularly and of course, eat the right amount and type of food. In the case of food, during this time try to consume a lot of immunity-boosting food in your everyday diet like garlic, ginger, barley and oats, tomatoes, and curd.
It's best to pair this healthy eating with immunity-boosting exercises. Exercise is one of the best ways to build up your immunity and immune response. Some of the exercises to help fight off infection are strength training, high-intensity interval training, walking indoors, and more.
The yogic technique of breathing called pranayama can be extremely beneficial in protecting you from COVID-19. When the level of oxygen is high in your body then it aids in healing your system faster. When you start practicing breathing exercises regularly then it allows your body to increase its capacity for the amount of oxygen it absorbs. Due to this increased intake of oxygen, healing is sped up and accelerated. There are specific breathing exercises like Kapal Bhati which focus on removing toxins from the system. In this particular breathing process of continuous or forced full exhalation and automatic inhalation, the body is able to release toxins from the lungs and keep them healthy.
