Ailments that come with old age impair the immune system and make it especially vulnerable to Covid-19. FMTNews StayHealthy Pandemic Virus
My grandmother, at 93, is mobile and mentally alert. Except for a kidney problem about five years ago, she’s in relatively good health. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, she has been taking extra precautions to avoid getting infected.
How can we best protect our older loved ones and ourselves now that it looks like Covid-19 is not going away anytime soon? Even after the movement control order is lifted, the danger of infection will be present and there’s a good chance that many of us will be infected at some point in the near future
Being in Malaysia, you might think this is a non-factor as our relative humidity levels fluctuate between 50% and 90%. However, being in a closed, air-conditioned environment significantly reduces humidity levels. “To my amazement, most patients I saw said they had been sick for a week or so with fever, cough, upset stomach and fatigue, but they only became short of breath the day they came to the hospital. Their pneumonia had clearly been going on for days, but by the time they felt they had to go to the hospital, they were often already in critical condition.”
A great way of achieving this is by doing interval training. She says: “An example of interval training you can do at home is to walk very briskly up and down the stairs or around the house for a minute, then slow down your pace for two minutes to catch your breath and recover. Do a few sets of this. You can also do high-knee runs or jumping jacks for a minute before doing gentle lunges for two minutes”.
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