Viral fever is in the air
The name is self-explanatory—any fever as a result of viral infection is viral fever.
These days almost anyone we know is down with viral fever. Though it requires symptomatic treatment, and usually by five or six days body recovers from the symptoms, the illness weakens our body. The course and duration of the fever does not follow any set pattern. Usually viral fever has these symptoms, though not all of them always—
Body ache
Running nose
Cough
Shivering
Skin rash
Irritability
Stomach upset
Watery eyes
Virus spreads
The virus is easily passed from person to person through the air by droplets and small particles excreted when infected individuals cough or sneeze. The virus enters the body through the nose or throat. It then takes between one and four days for the person to develop symptoms. Someone suffering from influenza can be infectious from the day before they develop symptoms until seven days afterwards.
Disease spreads very quickly among the population especially in crowded circumstances. Cold and dry weather enables the virus to survive longer outside the body than in other conditions and, as a result if any of your colleagues get viral fever in the office, invariably the whole office is going to come down with viral fever.
Treating viral fever
When down with viral fever, do not beg your doctor for antibiotics. Antibiotics are ineffective against viruses. Nasal decongestants and analgesics offer relief from nasal symptoms and body aches. Saline gargles and steam inhalation will help you earn relief from sore throat and nasal congestion. When recuperating from viral fever try to get adequate rest, which is the hardest to get, but it helps heal body faster from viral fever. Drink enough warm fluids—ginger tea, lukewarm water with a dash of honey and few drops of lemon juice—they help relieve sore throat.
Go homemade
Eat simple home-cooked food, as it is easy to digest and drink enough fluids. You can never go wrong with a hot chicken soup. Vegetarians can try antioxidant rich tomato soup. You can throw in green veggies like--beans, peas, corn and carrots in the soup and get more antioxidant advantage. .
Om Sai Ram~~~
Burn More Calories - Take the Stairs~~~
Are you trying to burn more calories without spending more time at the gym?
If your answer is yes, then get yourself to the nearest set of stairs!
Walking up and down the stairs is great exercise and burns calories. You can
burn about 300 calories for 30 minutes of walking the stairs depending on
the intensity of your workout. But, beware, 30 minutes is a lot of time to
spend walking up and down stairs. It is hard work.
The advantages of walking the stairs? They are many:
You can walk the stairs anywhere there are stairs offices, homes, stores
We all know how to do it, no special training is needed
No special equipment is needed, though if you are going to walk up
multiple flights as exercise you need good shoes. I used to walk the stairs
at work in high heels, but it was only for a floor or two. I had some scary
moments, especially going down stairs where I almost catapulted myself over
the edge a few times.
You can do this exercise in short spurts. If you only have time to run a
report up to a colleague two floors up from you that still counts as
exercise even if you do not take the stairs again for another couple of
hours.
Stair climbing will exercise your legs particularly your quadriceps (front
of the thighs) and your butt.
Your heart will get a good workout
It is low impact and safe for your knee joints
But
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If you are walking stairs at a public facility make sure the stairs are
safe, clean, well-ventilated and have enough light. Stairwells in public
buildings can hide a wide variety of nasty smells and icky things.
Let someone know if you are going to be taking an exercise break at work
to walk the stairs for 10 or 15 minutes. That way if something happens,
whether an injury or getting locked out, someone will notice if you are not
back at your desk.
Take your time, especially coming down the stairs and make sure you hold
on to the railing for balance.
Make sure the doors don't lock behind you and that you can get out of the
stairwell when you want. I walked down the stairs at work only to find that
the bottom three floors had doors that locked and could not be opened from
the stairwell so I had to walk all the way back up again. Aside from the
inconvenience it caused a few moments of panic. I thought I would be in the
stairwell until the next fire drill.
Beware if you have knee problems, walking down stairs may cause pain. If
your knees bother you going down stairs you can take the elevator down and
walk back up or walk down one flight and walk around the floor, go down
another flight and walk around that floor, etc. Giving yourself a little
break every few minutes is easier on your knees than running down the stairs
in one spurt of activity.
After your stair walking make sure you stretch your quads, hamstrings and
calves. Those are the parts of your body that will work the hardest climbing
stairs.
There is a Canadian web-site <http://stairway.hc-sc.gc.ca/calcalc.aro> which
will show you how many calories you burn going up and down the stairs. It
will inspire you to step out of the elevator and on to the stairs.
Since most of us no longer smoke and water coolers are a thing of the past
take a break from staring at your computer and take an exercise break to go
walk the stairs. You will be surprised by what good exercise it is and just
keep thinking about all those calories you are burning.
Jai Sai Ram~~~