The outbreak of Corrona virus has certainly given us all a bit of wake up call. In this article I want to share with you how to make sure you are being pro-active and taking steps toward keeping your self well and minimising chances of infection. Of course, what I will talk about here can be applied to all types of infections but when there is an outbreak this Corrona virus, it helps us to focus of the essential strategies we can take.
Common sense that is going to be the key ingredient – something you will not find in a bottle of supplements! If you want to be doing the best for your immune system and your health in general please do not underestimate these tried and tested approaches.
Supplements May Be Doing You Harm
You see if you’re depending on echinacea, zinc and other supplements or tonics in order keep well or stop your self being infected, then something is wrong! I’m sorry to say, you may be actually missing the point. Nothing wrong with good tonic medicines, this but it must be on the basis of a lifestyle that is conducive to maximising your health. Otherwise you can be masking underlying issues that may be having a deleterious affect on your health.
In a nut shell, if you are taking echinacea and multivitamins for example, to ‘keep you going’ and enabling you to burn the candle at both ends, then you are doing your self harm. Eventually something has to give. You are not addressing the very thing that is going to predispose you to becoming ill. This is why we see people suddenly crash with a dreadful flu or infection for example. This is exactly the sort of scenario that might make you more susceptible to developing Corrona virus symptoms as your immunity lowered and your vulnerability increased.
Without sounding simplistic or even condescending, we need to make sure we are exercising a good dose of common sense in this regard! And this includes hand washing – see the WHO infographic.
Corrona Virus Symptoms
The Corrona virus symptoms can appear between 2-4 days after exposure. There Can be Fever, Cough, Shortness of breath and trouble breathing. The intensity can be mild to sever and tragically may result in death. According to the Mayoclinc it has been seen that people with the most severe cases are the elderly and people with pre-existing illnesses. The symptoms are not that uncommon, so any hint of them you need to be super-vigilant and pro-active. When there is an outbreak like Corrona, we can’t be complacent.
Fever, Cough, Shortness of Breath, Trouble Breathing
Treating Current Health Issues
When ever there is an outbreak of a disease it is a poignant reminder that we need to be mindful a out the way are currently treating our health. Regardless of what it is, how you treat something is going to have an overall effect on your health. For example if you are regularly suffering migraines and taking some sort of pharmaceutical or herbal pain relief, then you are not really addressing the underlying cause of the migraine. The reason for your dis-ease is going to still be there and you will not be as healthy as you might otherwise be able to.
Now of course the way you treat a condition and whether you consider it to be treating the cause or not, is going to be based on your particular definition of illness and disease and this is a topic for another day. Suffice to say that we need to be mindful to treat underlying causes of our pre-existing conditions and not just treat them symptomatically.
Now you may like to take a look at my articleNatural Cure For Bird Flu? , as we were faced with similar situation now – looking for ways to protect ourselves form virulent infections (and of course other infections in general)
Prophylactic Emotional Health
Yes, that’s right. Your emotional health is a prophylactic, helping you to keep healthy and minimise the risk of illness. We all know, for example, that stress will lower your immunity. It is so important that when there is an infection going around – whatever it is – that we find ways to make sure our emotional balance is good – and stress if just one example. Anger, depression, low self esteem will all affect our physiology and in turn can, make us more susceptible to illness.
Now in my clinic I use homoeopathic, herbal or nutritional medicines to help support our emotional being. But the main pint here is that you just don’t ignore it. Find ways to nourish your emotional being and to move towards having a sense of peace, balance or well-being. I know it isn’t always easy or straight forward, but ads long as you are on the right track. There are times it is beneficial to seek help form your health care provider.
So as you can see there is a lot of common sense here, encouraging you to address in very practical ways, ways that can help improve your health in powerful ways and in turn help you to be less vulnerable to infections.
Naturopathic Help
For those of you who want to take a further step, please be in touch with me at my clinic and I would love to help you with some Naturopathic or homoeopathic interventions. We can orgainse an appointment – on site, phone, skype or zoom.
