10 Easy Ways To Survive The Harmattan Season
The weather has suddenly shifted, Nigerian's are used to Having the Harmattan Season In December. all through the Christmas Last Year we felt Nothing, But the same Cant be said Of the Weather now. You wake up Feeling Lazy and Not In The Mood for the day's Job, here are a few tips to get the better of the weather am Enjoying. I Love Life I Love ""Corazon"
Harmattan
affects our health in many ways: our skin, eyes and respiratory tract most
vulnerable to the effects of this weather.
The skin
suffers dryness with accompanying cracking of lips, soles of the feet and
sometimes the skin itself. The eyes also suffer from the abundance of dust
particles carried along by the winds, thus itching, foreign body sensations and
redness may be common especially in those with allergic eye diseases.
A lot of
diseases are easily triggered due to this change in weather and lots of care
must be taken to avoid fatal consequences.
Here are a
few tips on how to make it through this dry patch;
1. Drink
lots of water!
2. Avoid
carbonated soft drinks. They dehydrate your skin quite bad.
3. Avoid
antiseptic soaps during this
weather.
Use them only when you
have a skin
infection it is meant to treat.Use it even then for a short period and stop.
4. Keep the
skin healthy by applying
oily creams
and wearing weather
friendly
clothing.
5. Use lip
balms and apply Vaseline to the soles of the feet to prevent them from
cracking.
6. Remember
to keep your hair
moisturized
and also do hairstyles that keep your hair ends hidden. You can also wrap up
your hair to protect it from the dust.
7. Wear
warm clothes; they will protect you from the severe cold.
8. Rinse
your eyes with clean water
and reduce
the exposure to the dust
by wearing
protective spectacles.
9. Due to
the dusty atmosphere we
should
practice a healthy food
preservation
culture. Fruits and
vegetables
should be properly washed before eating and those of us that store our drinking
water should always ensure that the containers are always adequately covered.
10. We can
also keep our homes warm but please be careful as this is also the season when
we have the most fire accidents. All fires should not be left unattended and we
should avoid indiscriminate burning of refuse during this season.
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