Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that affected many people every year. You can get norovirus because interacting with people who are infected, eating contaminated food, touching contaminated surfaces, or drinking contaminated water. However, there are ways that can be done to kill norovirus before you are infected. For that, you need to maintain personal hygiene and keep the House free of contamination.
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- Kill Norovirus with Cleanliness
Wash your hands thoroughly. If you feel you have been exposed to the virus, wash your hands thoroughly to avoid spreading the infection. Use SOAP and hot water for hand washing and avoiding contamination. Hand Sanitizer from alcohol is generally considered not effective against certain types of viruses. You should wash your hands if :
- You are engaged with someone affected by norovirus.
- You interact with someone affected by norovirus, before and after.
- You recently visited a hospital, even if you are not interacting with people affected by norovirus.
- Your new bathroom.
- You eat, both before and after.
- If you are a nurse or doctor, wash your hands before and after contact with an infected patient, even if you wear gloves.
Avoid cooking for other people if you are sick
If you have been infected and sick, do not handle food or cooking for other people in your family. If you do, they almost certainly will be exposed to the infection as well.
If family members are contaminated, don't let them cook for other people. Limit the time a healthy family members gathered with family members who are ill.
Wash your food before eating or cooking
Wash all foodstuffs such as meat, fruits and vegetables thoroughly before cooking to be used or consumed. This is important because norovirus tend to survive even at temperatures above 60 degrees Celsius.
Always wash vegetables or fruit carefully before consumed, both are served fresh or cooked.
Cook food thoroughly before consumption. Seafood should be cooked thoroughly before consumption. Steaming food quickly generally will not kill the virus, because the virus can survive when the steaming process. Instead, burn or boil food at higher temperatures than the 760 degrees Celsius if you hesitate.
If you feel that food is served contaminated, immediately discard. For example, if there are family members who handle contaminated food, it's a waste of food or isolation and make sure that only people who have been exposed to the virus that ate it.
- Kill Norovirus at home
Use bleach to clean the surface.
Chlorine bleach is an effective cleaning solution to kill norovirus. Buy a bottle of chlorine bleach if bleach is opened for more than a month. Bleach becomes less effective if the longer it remained opened. Before applying the bleach to the surface that look, test in an area that is not easily seen to ensure the bleach will not damage the surface. However, if the surface becomes damaged, use phenolic solution such as Pine-Sol to clean the surface. Each type of surface chlorine bleach use with certain concentration.
- For antikarat surfaces and items used for food consumption: Dissolve a tablespoon of bleach in 4 liters of water and clean the antikarat stuff.
- For porous surfaces such as tabletops, wash dishes, or ceramic floors: Dissolve one third of a cup of bleach in four liters of water.
- For porous surfaces, such as wood floors: Dissolve one and two-thirds of a cup of bleach into the four liters of water.
Rinse the surface with clean water after using bleach
After cleaning the surface, let the solution work for 10 to 20 minutes. After that, rinse the surface with clean water. The surface of the lid, and let stand for one hour.
Let the window open, because breathing while using bleach can be dangerous to your health.
Clean the affected area flooded or stools
Fecal contamination of the affected area or flooded special cleaners have procedures. This is because of flooded or feces contaminated people norovirus can easily cause you to become infected. To clean the feces or feces: flooded.
Wear disposable gloves. You should also wear a mask that covers the mouth and nose.
Use paper towels to clean up flooded and feces. Caution in order not to be exposed to splash or drip while cleaning.
Use disposable cloths to clean and sterilize the whole area with chlorine bleach.
Use the enclosed plastic bags to dispose of all waste material.
Clean the carpet
If the stool or flooded were on the carpet, perform special steps to ensure that the area is clean and sterile from infection. To clean carpeted areas :
- Wear disposable gloves while cleaning carpets, if possible. You should also wear a mask that covers the mouth and nose.
- Use absorbent material to clean up all droppings or flooded in sight. Put all the ingredients into a contaminated plastic bags to prevent the formation of aerosols. The bag must be sealed and put into trash cans.
- Carpets must then be cleaned with a steam bath with a temperature of 76 degrees Celsius for about five minutes, or if you want to save time, clean the carpet for one minute with vapour 100 degrees Celsius.
Sterile clothing
If your clothes or Your family members clothes contaminated, or suspected to have been contaminated, be careful while washing it. To clean clothing and linens :
Delete all former flooded or feces with wipe it using paper towels or absorbent disposable material.
Put the contaminated clothes in the washing machine in the cycle After the wash. After this stage is completed, wash clothes using regular wash cycle and detergent. Clothes should be dried separately from clothes that are not contaminated. The recommended drying temperature exceeds 76 degrees Celsius.
Do not wash clothing contaminated with cleaners that are not contaminated.
- Treat Norovirus
Learn about the symptoms
If you feel you have been infected with norovirus, recognize the symptoms. If you are infected with a virus, the following steps will help you to overcome the disease while you are exposed. Its symptoms include.
- Fever. Just like other infections, infection norovirus causes fever. Fever is the body's way to fight infection. Body temperature will increase, making the virus more prone to the immune system. Your body temperature will most likely rise above 38 degrees Celsius when infected with Norovirus.
- Headache. High body temperature will cause enlarged blood vessels throughout the body, including the head. The high amount of blood in the head causes the formation pressure, and protective membranes that cover the brain will suffer from inflammation and make the pain.
- Stomach cramps. Norovirus infections are usually settled in the abdomen. Your stomach can become inflamed, causing pain.
- Diarrhea. Diarrhea is a common symptom of Norovirus contamination. This is the case as the defense mechanism of the body, because the body Try removing the virus.
- Vomiting. Vomiting is another common symptom of infection with the Norovirus. Such is the case of diarrhea, the body tries to remove the virus from the body by vomiting.
Understand that while there is no treatment, there are ways that can be done to deal with the symptoms.
Unfortunately, there is no specific drug can fight the virus. However, you can combat the symptoms of the norovirus which causes. Remember that viruses are cured himself, which means that the virus is generally lost on my own.
Viruses generally last for a few days to one week.
expand the drinking water
Consume plenty of water and other liquids will help to keep you hydrated. This can help relieve fever and headache, including if you are vomiting or diarrhea-affected. When these symptoms appear, You very likely will experience dehydration.
If you are tired of having to drink the water, you can drink ginger tea can help relieve abdominal pain while avoid dehydration body.
You can consume the anti vomiting
Anti vomiting drugs (prevent vomiting) such as Domperidone and Ondansetron may be given to relieve if you frequently throw up.
But keep in mind that these drugs can only be obtained with a doctor's prescription.
Visit a doctor if severe infection occurs
As mentioned above, the majority of infections will subside after a few days. If the virus lasts for more than a week, immediately go to a doctor, especially if the sick are children or elderly people, or people who are immune to low.
source : http://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/preventing-infection.html
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