Recently, the epidemic has spread in many places. In the face of epidemic prevention, in addition to responding to the call and staying in medium and high-risk areas, improving one’s own immunity is also an important part of preventing the virus, and immunity is closely related to sleep quality.

A study by the world’s top academic journal “Science” shows that sleep affects the body’s immune function, and good sleep can enhance immunity. A study published in March 2019 at the University of Tübingen in Germany showed that when we enter deep sleep, the body’s immune T cells are more active, which can identify and kill harmful invading cells and help us ward off disease risks.

It can be seen that in response to the new coronavirus, in addition to taking some basic preventive measures, it is best to maintain adequate sleep and rest.

Lack of sleep increases virus risk

In fact, as early as 2007, a Dr. Aric Prather from the University of California, USA, conducted a study on the relationship between sleep and the risk of viral infection.

The study monitored more than 160 healthy men and women, first using a smart bracelet to monitor their sleep for a week. They were then given drops containing rhinovirus. It turned out that people who slept less were more likely to be infected. Nearly 45 percent of those who slept five hours a night contracted the virus, compared with 18 percent of those who slept more than seven hours. It can be seen that the risk of infection in sleep-deprived people is 2 to 3 times that of sleep-sufficient people.

Why does lack of sleep increase the risk of viral infection? The study found that if a person slept only 4-6 hours a day for two weeks, the number of lymphocytes in the body decreased by 28%. Lymphocytes are important immune cells in the human body. This means that lack of sleep can significantly reduce the body’s immunity and make it vulnerable to viruses. Therefore, good sleep habits play a vital role in the immune function of the human body.

In extraordinary times, it is even more important to get enough sleep

Maintaining adequate and good sleep not only helps to maintain the normal immune function of the body, but also is the premise of maintaining energy and happiness. The healthier you are, the more resistant you are to viruses.

Did you sleep well? Pay more attention to the following three points:

01 The timing of sleep

From a scientific point of view, going to bed at 10 pm is the best, and going to bed too early or too late is not scientific. During the epidemic period, many people were affected by nervousness and anxiety, which made it difficult to fall asleep at 11:00 and 12:00 in the evening; some people stayed at home and entered a vicious cycle of sleep, getting up late in the morning and sleeping late at night. These are unhealthy. The way you sleep also needs to be adjusted.

02 Length of sleep

Generally, 8 hours is the length of sleep that meets the physiological needs of adults, including the elderly. If a person only sleeps three or four hours a day, there is definitely something wrong. At the same time, healthy sleep should be continuous. If the total length of several sleeps in a day is added together to get 8 hours of sleep, it is also unhealthy.

03 Feelings after waking up

If you wake up in the morning feeling refreshed, you’ve slept well. On the contrary, if you wake up feeling sleepy, weak, irritable, unable to concentrate, or have a decreased ability to work, it means that your sleep is not good and needs to be improved in time.

Nourishing the mind and calming the mind is the foundation of improving sleep

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the reason why sleep problems such as inability to fall asleep, sleeping for a short period of time, and being easily awakened is that “the heart does not hide the spirit”. The key to treatment is to nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. Suanzaoren treats insomnia. This is the consensus of physicians in the past dynasties. Its history can be traced back to Zhang Zhongjing’s “Essentials of the Golden Chamber” in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Treat insomnia. Famous doctors such as Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty and Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty believed that Suanzaoren was a good medicine for insomnia. To this day, Suanzaoren is still the most frequently used traditional Chinese medicine for sleep aid in the “Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China”. In 2002, the former Ministry of Health of the State included Suanzao Ren in the “List of Items that Are Both Foods and Medicines”, which shows its medicinal value and safety.

Modern research has found that the reason why sour jujube seed has a sleep-promoting effect is mainly because the ingredients such as sour jujube seed oil milk, sour jujube seed total flavonoids, and sour jujube seed saponins can play a sedative and hypnotic effect. Large and full, with high medicinal value, it is a recognized authentic medicinal material since ancient times, and has the reputation of “Xingtai Suan Jujube is the best in the world”. Wanbi’an Suan Zao Ren Oil Soft Capsules developed and produced by Yiling Pharmaceutical are selected from the wild and authentic Suan Zao Ren in Xingtai’s Taihang Mountains. The sleep aid essence is much more effective than the sour jujube seed powder and the sour jujube seed paste.

Scientists’ experimental studies have confirmed that a good night’s sleep can improve deep sleep. The State Key Laboratory of Fudan University has shown that Wanbian Suanzaoren Oil Soft Capsules can shorten the sleep latency period and help solve the problem of insomniac people having difficulty falling asleep; prolong the sleep time, allowing insomniacs to sleep longer; the most important thing is to improve deep sleep. , so that the mental and physical strength of people with anxiety and insomnia during the epidemic can be recovered more fully and efficiently.

Studies from the School of Medicine of Xi’an Jiaotong University and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Henan University of Technology have confirmed that in addition to sedative, hypnotic and antidepressant effects, jujube seed oil is also rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can help clean blood vessels. Cholesterol, protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, and help healthy sleep.

Wanbian Suanzaoren Oil Soft Capsule can effectively improve sleep without adverse reactions, and is easy to carry and take. It is very suitable for white-collar workers, students, menopausal people with endocrine disorders, and middle-aged and elderly people with sleep problems. For healthy sleep. In short, at the moment of the epidemic, in addition to taking normalized epidemic prevention measures, sleeping well and improving immunity are also effective ways to prevent the virus.

The Joint prevention and control mechanism of The State Council held a press conference yesterday. Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the NHC disease control and Prevention Bureau, said at a press conference that from March 1 to April 11, 31 provinces and autonomous regions and xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported a total of 325,303 cases of local infections, affecting 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. With the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures across the country, the newly affected areas were able to deal with the situation quickly and effectively, and no new large-scale outbreaks occurred.

Lei zhenglong said that guangdong, Shandong and Hebei, among the five provinces and cities hit hardest by the epidemic, have all shown a positive trend since mid-March as local epidemic prevention and control measures have been effectively implemented. The epidemic situation in Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Shandong is generally under control. Jilin province is on a downward trend, with the number of new infections falling below 1,000 for three consecutive days, but still at a high level.

Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health Commission, said at a press conference that the epidemic is still at a high level, with the spread of the epidemic further expanding, and the prevention and control of the epidemic is in a critical period. We must continue to adhere to the general policy of “dynamic zero-out” without hesitation or waver, strengthen confidence and be more resolute, and implement all prevention and control measures to every link.

A media question: Some people think that we can choose between “zero” and “lying down”, that is, allowing the virus to spread at a low level. Is this option feasible?

Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China CDC, responded that China has been exploring prevention and control strategies and is constantly improving them based on progress in prevention and control work and updated understanding of COVID-19. The biggest purpose of “dynamic zero clearance” is to protect people’s health and life safety as much as possible. Wu zunyou said, “The so-called lying down is that other prevention and control measures are not taken at all except for vaccination. After some countries have found that the number of cases and deaths have risen sharply, it has scaled back and added other prevention and control measures. China’s measures over the past two years have proved that dynamic zero-out is in line with China’s reality and is the best option for China to control the epidemic in a timely manner at this stage.”

When asked whether asymptomatic infected persons can stay at home, Wu Zunyou said that some asymptomatic infected persons are in the incubation period of confirmed cases. If they cannot be detected and treated in time, they are at risk, which may lead to the spread of the epidemic, or individuals may miss the optimal period of treatment. Infected persons under centralized quarantine will not be cross-spread and can receive treatment during asymptomatic and mild isolation. Therefore, patients with mild and asymptomatic cases should be quarantined at a centralized level

Recently, overseas reported that a Russian doctor had published an article suggesting that, based on what has been studied so far, the Novel Coronavirus virus is likely to have originated anywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a WHO report adds: “The area where an epidemic is first detected is not necessarily the site of an epidemic.”

 

Where exactly does novel Coronavirus come from?

There has been no end to the debate about where the Novel Coronavirus came from. But the epidemic is not over yet, and the focus remains on prevention and control. At present, due to the limited number of blood samples that have been kept for a long enough time, the traceability of Novel Coronavirus is mainly carried out by liquids that may preserve Novel Coronavirus, such as waste water. In fact, researchers have found evidence of the existence of Novel Coronavirus in Italy, Russia, Spain and other countries in 2019. There’s just a lack of convincing evidence linking them together.

More importantly, the United States, the hardest hit area of the epidemic, has not yet found the “patient 0” of COVID-19, because there are too many COVID-19 patients in the United States, and tracing the source of COVID-19 is difficult. On the other hand, the United States began to have a very large-scale influenza epidemic in the second half of 2019, and the transmission speed is very fast. It is still not clear whether this flu is related to COVID-19, but many countries believe that this flu is the precursor to COVID-19, but there is no actual evidence.

The conclusion from Russia, however, surprised everyone

As opinions vary on international, the Russian doctors put forward the new idea is to let a person find everything new and fresh, the doctor thought, will be coronavirus is likely to come from all over the world, rather than from a certain place, a lot of people think, will be the outbreak of the coronavirus should be from a point to a plane, spread from one region to the world, but there is a possibility, That is, the heavenly maid scattered, face to face, all over the world erupted.

This conclusion is unexpected to everyone, but it is not unreasonable. Take the NOVEL coronavirus mutation in The UK as an example, although it was first discovered in the UK. But the novel Coronavirus variant is more likely in the United States, with the largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, and in India, where the environment is extremely hostile, though it is very likely that the sample size is too large to detect it yet.

The Russian doctor’s objective view is that finding the source of the Novel Coronavirus should not be a political issue in the first place. What should be done is to find the true cause and prevent the next novel Coronavirus pandemic.

The novel Coronavirus pandemic that swept the globe has claimed millions of lives, inflicted huge losses on the world economy and paid a huge price in the battle against the virus. In the process of overcoming the virus, people have accumulated rich experience and learned profound lessons. Novel Coronavirus is also bound to change the way we live.

 

First, wearing masks will become a habit. Until the transmission of novel Coronavirus, only health care workers and workers in special circumstances wore masks. The average person is not used to, and there is no need to wear masks often. Even after the Novel Coronavirus spread, people in some European and American countries refused to wear masks. It was not until the Novel Coronavirus pandemic that the awakening came at the cost of human lives. Through the lessons of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, most people have now realized the importance of wearing masks in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and have formed the habit of wearing masks. This habit will be maintained for a long time, like the Chinese drinking hot water written into the human DNA.

Second, some manners among people will change. Such as hugging and kissing between Westerners and shaking hands between Chinese. Because such etiquette requires close contact between people, it is likely to cause the spread of the virus from person to person. People in order to reduce the spread of the virus, it is likely to change these manners, and smile, gesture, greeting and other long-distance manners replaced.

Third, society no longer advocates taking public transport. This is because many people gather in a confined space, which can easily cause the spread of infectious diseases. In order to reduce the chance of transmission, people will try to choose private cars, battery cars, bicycles and other means of transportation. And most people already have it.

Fourth, those who can afford it will give up city life. There is no doubt that city life has many advantages. However, its disadvantages such as heavy traffic, difficult parking, poor air quality and serious noise pollution are also obvious. In particular, large population density, complex personnel and other factors are more likely to cause epidemics of infectious diseases, bringing great difficulties to the fight against the epidemic. In today’s society where cars are popular, it is entirely possible for many people to choose to live in the suburbs or even in the countryside.