Hygiene measures

• Wash your hands regularly and teach children to do the same, especially after blowing their nose.
• Avoid sharing personal items such as glasses, utensils, towels, etc.) with a sick person. Avoid close contact with an affected person.
• When you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue, then throw the tissue away. Teach children to sneeze or cough into the crook of the elbow.
• When possible, stay home when you are sick to avoid infecting those around you.

Hand hygiene

Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services:

http://www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/sujets/prob_sante/influenza/index.php?techniques-mesures-hygiene

How to protect yourself from respiratory viral infections, National Institute of Prevention and Education for Health (inpes), France

http://www.inpes.sante.fr/CFESBases/catalogue/pdf/914.pdf

Environment and lifestyle

• Maintain the temperature of the rooms between 18 ° C and 20 ° C, in order to avoid an atmosphere that is too dry or too hot. Moist air helps relieve some symptoms of nasopharyngitis, such as sore throat and nasal congestion.
• Regularly ventilate the rooms during the fall and winter.
• Do not smoke or expose children to tobacco smoke as little as possible. Tobacco irritates the respiratory tract and promotes infections and complications from nasopharyngitis.

• Exercise and adopt good eating habits. Consult our Special Diet: Colds and Flu sheet.
• Sleep enough.
• Decrease stress. In times of stress, be vigilant and adopt behaviors to relax (moments of relaxation, rest, reduction in activities in the event of overwork, sports, etc.).

• Observe the basic measures for the prevention of nasopharyngitis.
• Blow your nose regularly, always one nostril after the other. Use disposable tissues to remove secretions.
• Cleanse the nasal cavity with a saline spray.