(Photo: Washing your hands is important to help stem the spread of the H1N1 influenza. Courtesy of Kathea Pinto / Creative Commons)
Cover Your Nose and Mouth
- With a tissue when you cough or sneeze and dispose the tissue properly in the trash after use.
Wash Your Hands
- Regularly and thoroughly with soap and water.
- Before and after preparing food
- After going to the toilet
- Before and after eating
- After blowing your nose
- After using your hand when coughing or sneezing
Contain the Spread of Flu
- Use a serving spoon when sharing food from a common dish.
- Do not share personal items such as toothbrushes and towels.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
- If you are sick, avoid crowded areas and wear surgical mask.
- Stay at home and do not go to work or school if ill.
- See your family doctor if you have flu like symptoms and if you had recent travel to areas with cases of Influenza A(H1N1).
Build Up Your Immunity
- If you are a smoker, quit smoking. It harms you and your family.
- Take more fruit and vegetables. Fruit and vegetables are the most power-packed combination of nutrients your body needs for good health.
- Drink the equivalent of 8 glasses of fluid daily.
- Engage in 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on 5 or more days a week.
- Learn to relax and rest.
Keep Your Environment Clean
- Do not throw leftover food on the floor or in the open.
- Do not leave food in common areas for stray animals.
- Do not spit on the floor and common areas.
- Throw used masks, tissue or litter into rubbish bins.
Travel Advisory
Do not do any non-essential travel to these regions:
- Mexico
- Canada
- USA
- Chile
- Kobe (Japan)
- Osaka (Japan)
- Melbourne (Australia)
- State of Victoria (Australia).
If you do travel there, monitor your temperature daily for any fever. Keep a record of all your movements for 7 days after your return.
Source: HPB website
Hi, this is very helpful!! Thanks a lot.. May this pandemic crisis would be gone as soon as possible!!
Most of any prevention is Common Sense (a very rare resource, i noticed) and an overall “high” standard of hygiene.
I attended day conference in 5-Star Hotels along Orchard Road recently and noticed (again) that rest room cleaners roll BY HAND toilet paper onto half used rolls (to avoid leaving replacement rolls in the stalls in case people “steal” them?) and for years I had discussions with cleaners at hawker centres , condominiums and cleaning personel in the CBD offices about the same ridiculous and unhygienic practices.
Grooming sessions in public transport, girls and women re-applying make-up rather then washing hands after going to the loo, in most supermarkets a policy to use gloves for handling food – but only 1 pair a day, to be used for cleaning as much as food handling purposes…,- a serious lack of bins in most public parks and shopping centres, etc
every time I point issues out to a government body concerned , I face ignorance or I am told that they have an ENFORCEMENT issue??
As an example: the buses are dirty and too cold (19 C) and the practice of running bus engines while drivers are on a break of 12-20 min in a Businterchange – waste of fuel and MASSIVE pollution – I get told that they have been telling the operators but lack co-operation?..?
Sadly, pandemics and other serious health risks are the ONLY opportunity to clean and maintain public spaces and shape up… briefly
Gabriela
i remember being scared of getting infected by H1N1 during the height of the pandemic. at least two of my classmates got infected by H1N1.
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