Monthly Archives: August 2011

Why Must Wash Hands?

Washing hands is one action that is easy and inexpensive way to prevent the spread of disease. Our own hands it is often the intermediary of various bacteria to get into our bodies. In order to obtain maximum results, you should know how proper hand washing techniques.

Someone with the flu cover his nose with his hand when sneezing, then holds the handle on the bus, when you hold the handle, the flu bacteria can quickly switch to your hands and if you hold your nose or mouth, germs can get into our bodies. That picture of how easily germs move from one person to another. Diseases such as diarrhea, intestinal worms, Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), tuberculosis and even deadly diseases such as SARS, avian influenza (H5N1) and swine influenza (H1N1) can be prevented by washing hands properly. Unfortunately, many people who crumble these healthy habits and do not consider it important. And with good hand washing with, your life and family can be healthier.

When When you Hand washing?
Hand washing is generally done just before eating, before preparing food, after handling raw meat, before and after touching a sick person, after using the bathroom, after coughing or sneezing or blowing your nose, after changing diapers or pads, before and after treating wounds, after cleaning or disposing of garbage, after touching animals or animal waste.

You should also teach good hand washing habits to your child this young. A child is happy to learn about and touch things without knowing whether the object is dirty or not. Then put his hand into the mouth or eating without washing hands. As a result the child may suffer from the disease. According to research, child number one killer disease in Indonesia is due to diarrhea, although this can be prevented by teaching children to wash hands.

Tips on healthy sleep at night

Each person must need a rest to the body and mind refreshed. But what you are sure the bedroom and your sleep patterns are in accordance with the needs rest?

Consider the following tips that sleep time is considered good for 7-8 hours. But now it’s time no longer be the benchmark. During sleep quality is good, no matter how long or short, you can also go back fresh the next day.

1. Indeed the researchers only know the bedroom as two functions. The first to perform sexual activities and to sleep. When the bedroom and the mattress you have been used for other functions, this will reduce the quality of the dugout. So do not ever unite bedroom with a den or study. To you who are still boarding should enable small parts in the room as quickly as possible. So that the mattress is only used to sleep the rest are doing other activities such as studying or watching TV in other places.

2. Avoid sleeping space with an interior ornament light colored or busy. To change the hours of the night you try to hang the clock on the wall opposite to the direction of view.

3. If you can not sleep well do not linger lying on the bed. Better to get up and do other activities. Avoid bed before you feel sleepy.

4. Set a regular bedtime. Hours of messy bed can disrupt your biological clock. Although late to bed does not mean you can get up in the afternoon. At first it’s hard but if the pattern is embedded with either would have lived.

5. No need to force yourself if you can not nap. Restore the nap only complains a little while but the effects are fatigue you so hard to sleep at night. Your pattern will change if this happens.

6. After lunch avoid consuming foods or beverages that contain caffeine or other stimulants. Caffeine found in coffee and tea ata stimulant substances in soft drinks and chocolate could prove to cause disturbed sleep patterns.

7. Two hours before bedtime to avoid cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. Cigarettes can also be a stimulant for the human nerve center that makes it very difficult to sleep. Alcoholic drinks may make you fast asleep, but this would lead to frequent waking in the night.

8. Also avoid large meals two hours before bedtime. This will make a bad stomach as he lay asleep consequently you too hard.

9. Calm your mind and your mental. Not too much thinking about the problem when bedtime. Prepare yourself to sleep and sweet dreams.

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