You must often envy people around you who are too healthy to fall sick. While you are at exhausting the quota of your sick leaves, their pack is intact. We may blame our genes but that’s not what immunity is all about. In fact, a major part of it depends on your lifestyle. So, here are people do and which you must also adopt if you don’t want to envy them and instead be them.
That’s like the foundation for a strong body. If you believe that you will fall sick merely by sitting around someone who is coughing, so you will. However, if you think better than this about your body’s immunity, it will stay that way. A research also proved that if you stayed positive, you were three to four times less likely to catch a cold.
No, eight glasses a day isn’t the rule. Every person’s requirement is different. You can calculate it by deploying this simple method: For every 20 kilos of your weight, drink a litre of water. So, if you weigh 50 kilos, your water consumption should be 2.5 litres a day.
More than staying hydrated, healthy people also drink hot water which is very helpful in keeping the symptoms of flu at bay. When you drink hot water, it can reduce sinus symptoms and can clear your nasal passage.
Vitamin C is very helpful in boosting your immunity level. Your daily requirement for the vitamin is 60 to 90 mg, which you can easily get through half a cup of chopped green bell pepper.
Though the term sounds fancy, the concept isn’t. It is simply about flushing out the toxins from your nose with the help of saline water. Nasal irrigation can be very helpful in avoiding nasal infections.
Lack of sleep has a direct relation with your immunity level. If you are not getting proper sleep, you get more likely to develop cold and flu.
It usually happens that when a family member falls sick, so do other members. To avoid this, you can disinfect surfaces like the faucets, door knobs, light switches, remotes and toilet flusher.
Mobile phone is like cinema for bacteria: there are all kinds of them on there. A very important thing is to swipe them off from there every day, twice if possible.
This is considered the single best way to fight cold and flu. Get yourself vaccinated every year and stay updated with various kinds of vaccinations. They may not protect you against all strains but sure they will fight against many of them.
You must wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after every time you use the loo, even if you just peed, after you touched an unclean surface or after you ate. This simple practice can help you stay healthy and to the best of your immunity.
Green veggies are power-houses of antioxidants and many nutrients and vitamins, including vitamin C and zinc, which help you fight against free radicals and help strengthen your immunity. So, say yes to all green leafy vegetables.