Influenza infection looks like an inevitable evil in winter, so prevention is normal, and parents often intervene in prevention.
As many know, flu prevention starts primarily from home, and here comes the role of parental advice, which parents exchange father for grandfather, with little medical knowledge.
According to a poll, 70 percent of people resort to flu prevention without scientific evidence, or rather superstitious, such as children hear from their parents requests or advice not to leave the house before they dry their hair, according to a poll conducted by "C That's it. "
Seven out of every 10 people confirmed that they believed in heritage and folklore strategies in the prevention of influenza.
Here are some myths about flu prevention:
Wet hair causes illness
The fact is that this is not true. Getting out of the house when the hair is not dry does not cause the disease. According to the pediatrician and spokeswoman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Katharine Williamson, until you get the flu, you need to have an infection vector.
She added that wet hair can cause cold, but not the disease, hair does not attract the factors of infection or disease.
Exposure to cold air causes cold
Cold weather coincides with times of the cold, according to Williamson, but says the two are not linked, and stresses again that the cold requires the presence of the virus.
In the colder climate, family meetings, or friends, are closer and closer to viruses than ever before, says Surana Sigal-Morer, a doctor at Queens Hospital in New York.
Vitamins and supplements prevent colds
Children who are healthy and eat balanced foods do not need vitamin supplements or supplements, according to a pediatric specialist at the Philadelphia Children's Hospital, Michael Russo.
According to Rousseau, there is no support for the idea that these vitamins and supplements can reverse the disease.
Rosso noted that it was usual to remember the lack of flu when we take these supplements, but do not remember the lack of impact or failure to prevent infection with the virus.
