甲型流感H1N1预防小贴士（双语）

　　3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

　　每天用温盐水（或李斯德林漱口水，如果你不太相信盐水有效的话）漱口两次。H1N1在鼻喉腔内经过2-3天，才开始增生并出现症候，简单的盐水漱口可以抑制病毒繁衍，等于是健康人的流感疫苗，千万不要小看这看似简单、花费不多，但是很有效的办法。

　　4.. Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.

　　以上三点之外，每天用温盐水清洗鼻孔至少一次，不是每个人都会用专业的清洗鼻腔的办法，但吸口气用力将鼻内物质喷出，最后以棉花棒沾温盐水清洁鼻孔。这对降低鼻中的病毒量非常有效。

　　5. Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amlaand other citrus fruits). If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.

　　更多的食用富含维他命Ｃ的食物（如柑橘类的水果），可增加自身免疫力。如果只能服务Vc片，尽管选用含锌的以提高Vc的吸收。

　　6. Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

　　多喝温开水或热汤，功效和漱口一样，只是方向相反。随着热水或汤水被喝到胃里的病毒是无法生存、传染或发作的。

　　7. All these are simple ways to prevent, within means of most households, and certainly much less painful than to wait in long queues outside public hospitals.

　　这些都是在家里就做得到的简便预防法，远比痛苦地排长队在医院候诊好得多