How To Stay Healthy This Rainy Season

Monsoon has finally arrived at your doorstep after playing hide and seek for a week or two. While that may be a relief, what’s not is the fact that along with the rain clouds, the monsoon has also brought its share of woes. Health problems are always on the rise during the rainy season, be it cold and flu, viral fever etc. Sipping on a hot cup of tea or ensuring that you stay dry is not enough. With the changing weather conditions, you also need to alter your lifestyle. So friends follow our tips on how to stay healthy this rainy season.

Top 12 tips on how to stay healthy this rainy season

Common cold, Diarrhea, Typhoid and other Skin ailments occur frequently in rainy better try to keep your surroundings neat and clean.

To keep your body hot in rainy season, try to indulge hot beverages like tea, coffee or any other herbal teas. If possible try to take mint tea or have a soup with finely crushed garlic in it.

Avoid going into air conditioned rooms as it may lead to common cold and fever.

Mosquitoes multiply in large number in rainy season in stagnant water. So keep mosquitoes away by keeping your surroundings clean and neat. Keep the places neat where water gets more stagnated.

Avoid eating street food, as in rainy season most of the bacteria sits on street foods and if we have it, it causes many diseases.

Avoid eating the food that is cooked and sold in open air as it may lead to many airborne and waterborne diseases.

Try to drink clean boiled water instead of preferring the contaminated as drinking without purified water leads to cholera and other viral diseases.

Wash your hands as many times as possible to keep yourself healthy from germs and other viral infections.

Whenever you find your legs wet, dry them well with dry cloth to keep yourself away from cold.

Avoid cooking the vegetables without washing; try to clean the vegetables well before they are being cooked to kill the germs that are present on them.

If you get wet in rainy season shower immediately after getting wet, as sudden exposure to rainy water may drop your body temperature so try to dry yourself as soon as possible.

When you are going out in rainy season, always carry an umbrella or a rain coat to keep your body away from sudden drop down of temperature. As sudden changes in body temperature may lead to fever, sickness, cold, cough or may other infections.