How do ordinary domestic workers take personal precautions during the epidemic in novel coronavirus?
1. Minimize outdoor activities. Reduce visiting relatives and friends and having dinner, and try to rest at home. Reduce to crowded public places, especially places with poor air circulation, such as public baths, hot springs, cinemas, Internet cafes, KTV, shopping malls, stations, airports, docks, exhibition halls, etc.
2. Do a good job in personal protection and hand hygiene. Thermometers, masks, household disinfection products and other household equipment. Masks that need to be discarded shall be disposed of according to the classification requirements of domestic waste. Always maintain hand hygiene, wash your hands with hand sanitizer or soapy running water after coming back from public places, coughing and covering your hands, before and after meals, or use antibacterial hand sanitizer. When you are not sure whether your hands are clean, avoid touching your mouth, nose and eyes. When sneezing or coughing, cover your mouth and nose with elbow clothes.
3. Maintain good living habits. The room should be clean, often open the window, often ventilate and disinfect regularly. Balanced diet, balanced nutrition, moderate exercise and adequate rest. Don't spit everywhere, wrap the nose and mouth secretions with paper towels and put them in a covered trash can for disposal. 4. Actively monitor the health status of individuals and family members, and take the initiative to measure body temperature when you feel fever. If you have children at home, you should touch their foreheads sooner or later. If you have a fever, you should take his temperature.
5. In case of fever, cough, sore throat, chest tightness, dyspnea, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, muscle aches and other suspicious symptoms, you should go to a medical institution in time according to your condition.
Under what circumstances do you need to wear a mask?
The basic principles of wearing masks are scientific and reasonable wearing, standardized use and effective protection. Details are as follows:
1. You don't need to wear a mask in an open and ventilated place in a non-epidemic area, but you need to wear a mask when you enter a crowded or closed public place.
2. In areas with high epidemic incidence, it is recommended to wear disposable medical masks; When entering crowded or closed public places, wear medical surgical masks or particle protection masks.
3. When going to a hospital with suspected symptoms, you need to wear a particulate protective mask or a medical protective mask without an exhalation valve.
4. Patients with basic respiratory diseases need to use protective masks under the guidance of doctors.
Very young babies can't wear masks, which may lead to suffocation.
How to correctly wear and handle medical surgical masks?
If you choose to wear a mask, please make sure that it covers your mouth and nose. Avoid touching after wearing a mask.
1. The nose clip is facing upwards and the dark side is facing outwards (or folded downwards).
2. Pull the fold up and down so that the mask covers the mouth, nose and lower collar.
3. Press the fingertips of both hands along the metal strip of the bridge of the nose, from the middle to both sides, slowly inward until they are close to the bridge of the nose.
4. Adjust the mask properly so that the periphery of the mask fits the face completely.
5. It is recommended to change the mask every 2-4 hours. If the mask is wet or has secretions, it should be replaced in time.
Mask processing:
1. Masks worn by healthy people have no risk of transmission in novel coronavirus. Generally speaking, when the protective performance of masks is reduced due to deformation, humidity or pollution, they should be replaced. Masks used by healthy people can be treated according to the requirements of domestic waste classification.
2. Masks worn by suspected cases or confirmed patients shall not be discarded at will, and shall be regarded as medical waste, which shall be treated in strict accordance with the relevant procedures of medical waste, and shall not enter the circulation market.
3. Disposable masks should be treated after wearing. Wash your hands after handling the mask.
How to wash your hands correctly?
1. Wet your hands under running water.
2. Apply a proper amount of hand sanitizer (soap) evenly on the whole palm, back of hand, fingers and fingers.
3. Carefully rub your hands for at least 15 seconds, as shown below:
Palms facing each other, fingers together, rubbing against each other.
The palms rub and exchange with each other along the fingers.
Palms facing each other, hands crossed, fingers rubbing against each other.
Bending the finger makes the knuckles rotate and rub and exchange in the palm of the other hand.
Hold the thumb with one hand, rub it with the other hand, and exchange hands.
Put five fingertips together in each other's palm, rotate and knead, and exchange.
Alternate spiral scrubbing wrist.
4. Wash your hands thoroughly under running water.
5. Dry your hands and take a proper amount of hand cream to protect your skin.
How to disinfect at home?
Disinfection is not recommended for ordinary families in principle. If there are no visitors from unknown sources or returnees from epidemic areas, there are no suspected or confirmed cases.
If disinfection is needed, the disinfectant should be selected as needed. For example, hand disinfection can use chlorhexidine and alcohol-containing hand disinfectant; Small electronic devices such as mobile phones can be wiped with alcohol-containing hand disinfectant after being turned off; Floor, desktop, bathroom, etc. Chlorine-containing disinfectant can be sprayed for disinfection; Tableware can be sterilized by steam in a steamer.
How do close contacts of cases in novel coronavirus observe at home?
1. Observe the close contacts of novel coronavirus cases through home isolation medicine. The medical observation period is 14 days after the last contact with the case or infected person without effective protection. Home isolation personnel should live relatively independently, try to reduce contact with residents of * * * *, and do a good job in cleaning and disinfecting medical observation places to avoid cross-infection. Don't go out during the observation period. If you have to go out, you can only go out with the approval of medical observation and management personnel, and wear medical surgical masks to avoid going to crowded places.
2. Home isolation personnel shall measure their body temperature at least twice a day, and no visitors are allowed. Minimize close contact with family members, and do not use any items that may lead to indirect contact and infection with family members, including toothbrushes, cigarettes, tableware, food, drinks, towels, clothes, bedding, etc.
3. Other personnel should wear KN95/N95 or above particulate matter protective masks when entering the residential space of home isolation personnel, and do not touch and adjust the masks during the period. Try to avoid direct contact with isolated people at home. If there is direct contact, it should be cleaned and disinfected in time.
How to maintain a good attitude in the face of the epidemic?
Coping with stress: It is normal to feel sad, nervous, uneasy, confused, afraid or irritable in a critical situation. It helps to talk to someone you trust. Communicate with family and friends more.
Get real information. Collect information that will help you accurately judge the risk, so as to take reasonable preventive measures. Refer to credible sources, such as the official website of the World Health Organization or news released by national and local public health institutions.