1.23.2018

To clean to protect your family during flu your house

Since the flu - season deteriorated - Hawaii is the only state not reported widespread influenza - activity - people are looking for in their homes to see what they can do to prevent the flu.

Home - in which to spend a lot of time, a content area - can be a surprisingly high seed site.

Make the most difficult flu is the speed with which spread the virus. found a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland that patients breathe influenza virus through the nose and mouth into small particles.

"We are able to grow the virus in more than 40 percent of the samples of aerosols that we have collected show that this fine aerosol particles are infectious and transmit capable infection," a researcher Dr. Donald Milton, University of Maryland School of public Health, said ABC News.

If someone is sick in your family with the flu, doctors recommend that to prevent the family member in quarantine, the spread of the virus.

If someone is sick in your home, there are steps you can take to germ-proof as much as possible to treat at home.

This is the advice of doctors.

"The most important thing to disinfect their hands," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "If we are to influence what and secondly, the final common pathway is in our hands in the world."

Schaffner told his wife that he "wash their hands" called Czar of his house, was a rule that everyone must follow.

"You go to our house, hangs his coat and immediately go to the sink and washes his hands," he said. "This helps prevent virus in our house."

Dr. Peter Shearer, a doctor of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, advises people to forget what their parents and teachers taught them during the flu season to share.

"One of hatred, but during the flu season is probably more hygienic than people dry their hands with paper towels be," Shearer said. "Instead, often everyone in the family drying in a [main] towel."

Similarly, members of the same household their own towels and washcloths should use.

can help with a humidifier, the spread of these tiny particles can contain influenza are exposed in the air.

"We know that influenza survived less hot humidified air," Shearer said.

According to Dr. Randy Bergen to keep its easy cleaning, which is difficult focuses on the surfaces of most of played, clinical leadership of Kaiser Permanente program influenza - vaccination in North - California.

"The virus remains in the air for a period of time, but also on land surfaces and can remain on surfaces for a period of time," he said. "You can stay in theory hours to touch something."

Take inventory of the daily routine of his family in the house and the map of your cleaning strategy from there. Think bedside tables, counters, sink faucets, light switches, door handles, remote controls, telephones, refrigerator handles, toys for children and even your garage door opener and digital touch pads for your security system.

"It was at least every day," she said to clean mountain areas with more traffic. "To be safe, do so from November to April [flu season], because it seems that there is always a germ that comes through."

Bergen has a cleansing formula bleach or antibacterial includes products will do the job and can use a towel or paper towel to spread.

For bedding and plush toys for children, there is less need for frequent cleaning, to Bergen.

"I worry a little less on the surfaces of hard surfaces, which clearly demonstrated that contain germs for hours," he said. "If someone is sick and was in bed for a few days and start to feel better, so I think it is advisable to clean the litter box."

Shearer said often neglected spaces to be reminded to clean hard surfaces with a clean antiviral are the door handles of the cabinets and drawers.

If handles cleaning, be sure to remember the earth, can you not under everyday use drawers, but they can easily reach your child.

Similarly, if you have a child, crawling on the floor or play, make sure that the floors are clean and wash your hands after picking up toys from the floor.

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