How to Live Life Every Day with these Everyday Health Tips.
It seems like only now that the world is realizing how easily germs can spread and sicknesses can occur from these germs. Whether there is a widespread virus or not, these are everyday health tips to help avoid germs and stay healthy:
1. Be aware and cautious of what you touch
Assume everything that other people have touched already has germs on it.
2. Use a tissue for touching everything public
If you have to touch anything public, use a tissue to hold it. This goes for doorknobs, handrails, elevator buttons, anything, and everything. If you reuse the tissue, make a note to yourself which is the dirty side and which side is the clean side.
3. Bring your own pen
When you sign the bill at restaurants or stores, you’ve probably used the pen given to you, right? Yeah, that’s germ-filled, too. Bring your own pen.
4. Money is dirty
Money is the dirtiest thing. The circulation and a countless number of hands and germs on every bill and coin is grotesque. So when you touch money, those germs are on your hands. Worse yet, they get ingrained into your wallets. As much as it’s a fashion statement to have nice wallets, seriously consider placing the bills and coins into a paper envelope which you can discard at least once a week. And, of course, when you handle money, wash or disinfect your hands afterward.
5. Be aware of yourself and how you’ll possibly infect others
Yes, things that others touch spread their germs. At the same time, things that you touch also spread your germs to others. Be aware of yourself and courteous to others.
6. Avoid people that cough and sneeze
Hold your breath and move away from anyone that coughs or sneeze, especially if they do not cover.
7. Create a greater personal space
While people that cough and sneeze should be avoided, it also helps to have a wider area of personal space so the air around you is cleaner.
8. Don’t touch your face (especially eyes, nose, and mouth)
Whether you touch public things or not, do touch your face – and most especially not your eyes, nose, and mouth where germs will immediately enter your body.
9. Wipe your hands & sanitize
Always use antibacterial hand wipes or sanitizer each and every time you touch anything public. This includes doorknobs, handrails, menus at restaurants, and so on.
10. Wash hands as soon as you get home
The first thing you should do as soon as you get home is to wash your hands! Don’t touch anything in your home before doing that.
11. Don’t wear shoes in the house
It’s an Asian custom that helps to minimize dirt in the house and also minimizes gross outside germs from all that you stepped on outside.
12. Change to house clothes
To further minimize outside germs in your home, don’t wear your outside clothes and change to house clothes. Where you sat in a restaurant or at work may have had gross germs in that seat. You certainly do not want to transfer those germs to your sofa at home, let alone your bed.
13. Sanitize your phone
Everyday health tips may be taken for granted, and this is definitely one of them. Your phone collects all kinds of germs without you knowing it. From you touching your phone to others touching your phone, and to where you place it on a public surface. Sanitize your phone at least once a day.
14. Shower every night
There are so many articles out there about why you should not shower every day for your skin to not dry out and retain natural oils, this and that. But that’s also your skin and hair retaining all the germs floating around during the day. Shower and wash it off at the end of each day before getting into bed. If you sleep with those germs, you’re bathing in bed with them and breathing them in for hours as you slumber.
15. Germs are in every single person.
Assume everyone has germs to potentially get you sick, and don’t assume sick people are only from one generalized race. Eliminate the xenophobia and be more germaphobic.
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