What are some harmful habits and infectious disease prevention?
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The number one thing you can do to prevent any disease is wash your hands often.
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anything from genetics and unhealthy eating to the environment in which a person lives.
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You probably mean impetigo, an infectious skin disease. Attention to hygiene is the simplest and most effective way to avoid impetigo. See: http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/skin/impetigo.html
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Wash your hands before you eat anything, or better yet use an antibacterial that you can keep in your purse, or if you're a guy in your pocket, don't put your fingers in your mouth (i.e., bite your nails). One good piece of advice in preventing colds or the flu is to not borrow pens...always make sure you have one of your own...that way you know that you're not holding something that someone who just coughed or sneezed into their hand was just touching.\n\nAs always, make sure you take in lots of vitamin C daily.  Lots of orange juice, and go with a multivatimin.  FYI, all of these things are good to practice anyway but are especially good practices to remember around flu season.
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Prevention of what?  If it is health related, try using a profession journal such as the American Journal of Medicine.  Such professional journals can be found in the library.  Go to the library and Nicely ask the librarian to help you find this journal.
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- Refining Food Habits\n- Having good Sleeps.\n- Penile Excercises.\n- "Kayakalpa" Meditation\n----------------
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What could be harmful to you?
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Wash your hands frequently, and keep your hands away from your nose, eyes, and mouth.
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avoid hot and spicy foods, avoid alcohol, especially red wine, avoid strong facial cleansers and heavy facial creams or makeup
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Isolation and/or good anti-bacterial hygiene
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there are two morals.\n1. don't eat boogers.\n2. don't hit bumps.
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smile, smile, smile.\n\nmake sure you keep a positive attitude all the time.  Be known for that.\n\nStay away from gossip, don't get involved with gossip, be friends with everyone, no ememies.\n\nand practice, practice, practice.
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Not a lot other than the obvious methods, since influenza is highly contagious.\n1) Don't touch your eyeballs (easy to infect yourself that way)\n2) Wash hands\n3) Stay away from children\n4) Reduce your daily contact with people\n5) Don't eat in restaurants (see above)\n6) Get a flu shot (all flu sucks, and regular flu can kill you too, not just bird flu)
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Hygiene is the maintenance of healthy practices. In modern terminology, this is usually regarded as a particular reference to cleanliness.\n\nOutward signs of good hygiene include the absence of visible dirt (including dust and stains on clothing) or of bad smells. Since the development of the germ theory of disease, hygiene has come to mean any practice leading to the absence of harmful levels of bacteria.\n\nGood hygiene is an aid to health, beauty, comfort, and social interactions. It directly aids in disease prevention and/or disease isolation. (That is, good hygiene will help keep one healthy and thus avoid illness. If one is ill, good hygiene can reduce one's contagiousness to others.)\n\nWashing (with water) is the most common example of hygienic behavior. Washing is often done with soap or detergent which helps to remove oils and to break up dirt particles so they may be washed away.\n\nHygienic practices -- such as frequent hand washing or the use of boiled (and thus sterilized) water in medical operations -- have a profound impact on reducing the spread of disease. This is because they kill or remove disease-causing microbes (germs) in the immediate surroundings. For instance, washing one's hands after using the toilet and before handling food reduces the chance of spreading E. coli bacteria and Hepatitis A, both of which are spread from fecal contamination of food.\n\nAdequate hygiene require an adequate and convenient supply of clean water. In much of the developing world maintaining an acceptable level of cleanliness is difficult or impossible for much of the population due to lack of adequate water supply and sanitation. This results in the rapid spread and extent of diseases such as trachoma which are rare in the developed world.
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The best way to prevent disease is to have a strong immune system.\n\nThis is acheived by a healthy diet that avoids animal products, processed food and sugar, good exercise for an hour per day, regular sleep, sunshine, and love.\n\nIf you have all those, you will not get diseases.
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The worst risk is TB. Most bacteria and viruses are killed by exposure to air for long periods of time, but not TB. Believe me, you don't want to get TB. Nasty disease.
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Depends on the house.  However I would, for example:\n\n1. Refrain from smoking without the host's permission\n2. Remember to flush after using the toilet and lower the seat.\n3. Wash my hands afterward and straighten the towel I used to dry\n4. Clean up any messes I make including offering to wash dishes after meals.\n5. If staying longer than a day or two, go shopping and bring back groceries for everyone, and also flowers are nice.\n6. Refrain from excessive noise at odd hours\n7. If using the kitchen, be sure to make enough for everyone, like with coffee.  Wake up early and make a whole pot.\n\nand so on.  Common sense should be enough.\n\nSome cute links: