Certificates During Seasonal Change, This Is A Way To Keep Health Avoid Disease

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JAKARTA - Weather changes can cause flooding, people must be careful about the risk of diseases such as diarrhea. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is one of the preventive measures to avoid diseases that often appear during the turn of the season.

"The principle of prevention is in addition to a healthy lifestyle, continuing to wear masks, getting enough rest, maintaining self-cleaning and the environment," said dr. Ichwan Zuanto, who took the Education Program for Toraks, Kardiak, and Vascular for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, quoted from ANTARA, Friday, September 30.

To maintain health to avoid disease, the public can check routine health for ages 15 and over every 6-12 months for risk factors for non-communicable diseases, avoiding smoking, exercising 30 minutes per day at least five days a week.

Another thing that must be done to live a healthy life is to undergo a balanced diet complete with vegetables and fruit, reduce consumption of sugar, salt, and fat, get enough rest and manage stress.

Ichwan explained that the transitional season causes changes in environmental temperatures is closely related to infectious diseases due to infection, such as respiratory tract infections and dengue fever transmitted through mosquito bites.

The community must control the environment to prevent mosquitoes that carry the virus from breeding. The steps that can be taken are to clean and drain water reservoirs so that they do not become laying mosquito nests, closing water reservoirs, utilizing or recycling used goods.