Once it starts to get cold outside, it seems as though everyone suffers from some sort of winter cold. If you’re someone who tends to get sick once the temperature drops, follow these easy ways to prevent those feelings of a cold:
Improve your air quality
If you’re living with indoor air that’s dusty, dirty, and full of airborne particles, you could easily increase your chances of a cold. Low indoor air quality can cause respiratory infections, worsened asthma symptoms, and common ailments like headaches and sleep problems. Call up our indoor air quality experts and set up an appointment for an air quality test today.
Wash your hands
It’s always a good idea to keep your hands clean, and this couldn’t be more true once it gets cold. The winter months are full of cold, flu, and infection germs and they’re easily transferred from humans to surfaces. Make sure you wash your hands as much as you can to prevent these germs from making you sick.
Clean your ducts
Keeping your ducts clean is another way to improve your indoor air quality. Every time your heat or air conditioning kicks on, it can pull dust, dirt, pollen, mildew, fungi, bacteria and smoke into your duct system and spread them around the house. Don’t let dirty ducts be the cause of your winter cold – let us clean them for you so you can breathe easier.
Drink, drink drink
Doctors recommend drinking at least eight glasses of water every day in order to keep your immune system in good shape and your bodily defenses ready, so drink as much as you can to keep everything functioning properly.
Stay active
During the summer months, it’s easy to stay active with activities like swimming, biking, hiking, and more, but once it starts to get cold, many people cut their activity drastically. Make it a point to stay active this winter and keep your heart pumping – a hard-working heart strengthens your immune system and can help combat cold and flu germs.
Keep warm
When you’re cold, you depress your immune system and increase your chances for a cold, the flu, a cough, and more. Stay warm this winter by dressing warmly (especially on your head and feet where you lose a lot of your body heat) and making sure your heating system is in proper working order.
