How can respiratory infections be prevented?

Prevention

1. Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
2. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze.
3. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
4. Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
5. Stay home if you are sick.
6. Vaccines are recommended.

How can I prevent a respiratory infection at home?

Have a warm drink of honey and lemon if your throat is sore from too much coughing. Avoid smoking, or being around secondhand smoke or other irritants. Stay away from cough suppression medicines. Coughing actually helps you to get over your infection through clearing mucus from your lungs.

How can I prevent a chest infection?

Things you can do yourself

1. get plenty of rest.
2. drink lots of water to loosen the mucus and make it easier to cough up.
3. raise your head up while sleeping using extra pillows to make breathing easier and clear your chest of mucus.
4. use painkillers to bring down a fever and ease headaches and muscle pain.

How do you stop an upper respiratory cough?

drinking plenty of warm liquids, such as tea or broth, to soothe throat irritation from coughing. using a humidifier or taking a steamy shower to add moisture to the air around you. avoiding or protecting yourself against throat irritants, such as cigarette smoke or polluted air.

How do you clear your respiratory tract?

Ways to clear the lungs

1. Steam therapy. Steam therapy, or steam inhalation, involves inhaling water vapor to open the airways and help the lungs drain mucus.
2. Controlled coughing.
3. Drain mucus from the lungs.
4. Exercise.
5. Green tea.
6. Anti-inflammatory foods.
7. Chest percussion.

How can you protect yourself from respiratory diseases such as cold and pneumonia?

To protect yourself and others from cold and flu germs:

• Wash your hands often. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer when you don’t have access to soap and water.
• Don’t touch your eyes, nose, and mouth.
• Try to avoid people with respiratory infections.
• Ask your healthcare provider if you should get a pneumonia vaccination.

How can bronchitis be prevented?

Prevention

1. Don’t smoke.
2. Insist that others do not smoke in your home.
3. Stay away from or try to reduce your time around things that irritate your airway (nose, throat, and lungs).
4. If you catch a cold, get plenty of rest.
5. Take your medicine exactly the way your doctor tells you.
6. Eat a healthy diet.
7. Wash your hands often.