NEWSLETTER The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body
CORONAVIRUS RECOMMENDATIONS
THINGS TO KNOW: • Likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April • This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average •The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via yourhandsoran infectedcoughorsneeze (we touchour faces~90x/day) PRECAUTIONS YOU CAN TAKE: 1. NO HANDSHAKING! Avoid greeting others with any physical contact. Instead, use a slight bow, namaste hands or head nod. 2. Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches, elevator buttons, etc. 3. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel oruseadisposableglove. 4. Open doors with your closed fist or hip, instead of grasping with your hand, unless there is no other way to open them. 5. Use disinfectant wipes at stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts. 6. Wash your hands with warm water and soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been. 7. Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home’s entrances AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can’t immediately wash your hands. Note: you can make your own alcohol-based hand sanitizer with 1/3 cup aloe vera gel, 2/3 cup rubbing alcohol, and 8-10 drops of an essential oil.
8. Only cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow may contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more! Wash your jackets! 9. Practice Social Distancing: Maintain at least 6 feet between yourself and others while the virus continues circulating. If you’ve had direct contact with someone who is known or suspected to be infected with coronavirus, self-quarantine for a period of 14 days is recommended. Make sure this includes avoiding contact with family members living in the same household, so as not to expose them, particularly if they are older adults over the age of 60 or if they are younger adults or children who have underlying health conditions. THINGS TO HAVE IN YOUR HOME: • Disposable gloves for shopping, getting gas, or any other outside activity where you come into contact with potentially contaminated areas. • Disposable masks only to prevent you from touching your nose/mouth; a mask will not protect you from the virus getting into your nose/mouth if you are coughed or sneezed on directly from the virus getting into your
nose/mouth if you are coughed or sneezed on directly. • Alcohol-based hand sanitizer of 60% alcohol or higher.
• Zinc lozenges, such as Cold Eeze – these have been proven to be effective in blocking other coronaviruses from multiplying in your throat. Use as directed when you begin to feel ANY cold-like symptoms.
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