Preventing the Spread of Disease - Tips from Your Physicians Premier, Your Cibolo Texas Emergency Room

Infectious diseases, from the flu to the more serious ones, are caught by exposure to a harmful germ or virus.

To keep these infectious diseases at bay, here are the best germ prevention strategies for you and your family.

1. Get vaccinated

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention lists vaccination as the single best way to prevent flu and other types of infectious diseases. Vaccines help the immune system to develop the resistance needed to be able to fight off certain types of bacteria, virus, or microorganisms, which are the usual culprits for infectious diseases.

Make sure that when it’s flu season, or any other season for other types of infectious disease, you are able to get you and your family vaccinated.

2. Wash your hands regularly

Statistics show that about 80% of diseases that are considered infectious are spread by touch. This is exactly the reason why hand washing is a highly crucial strategy when it comes to preventing harmful germs from spreading.

Experts say that hand washing is the next powerful thing to vaccines when it comes to preventing the spread of diseases. Don’t forget — hand washing must take place for 20 seconds or more to effectively eradicate bacteria, viruses, and dirt!

3. Cover your mouth and nose

There are germs that spread through droplet contact, while some through airborne transmission. When infected droplets come in contact with your nose, mouth, or eyes, you can get infected by a droplet-transmitted disease like measles.

Aside from droplet transmission, diseases can also spread through airborne transmission. When people who are infected talk, sneeze, or cough, they tend to release germs into the air. When you breathe this air, you will likely inhale these germs, and thus also get you infected.

This is why it’s important for anyone to cover one’s mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing. It’s also best to wear a mask if you are with an infection, or if you are interacting with someone who has an infection.

4. Early response and intervention

Typically, the signs and symptoms of infectious diseases include fever, diarrhea, fatigue, muscle aches, and coughing. It’s important to provide not only early, but appropriate response and intervention to infectious diseases, especially at the first sight of its signs and symptoms. Not only will it prevent the spread of the disease, but it will result to high and fast improvement, as well as lower health care costs.

If you are looking for an emergency facility within your neighborhood that can help you with early intervention and the prevention of the spreading of diseases, look for Physicians Premier.

Physicians Premier is a freestanding emergency room in Cibolo, Texas, where you can expect only the best emergency care for you and your family. Physicians Premier is known for being the best emergency room for minor emergencies.

Other Locations:

• Saratoga Emergency Room
• Staples Corpus Christi Emergency Room
• Ennis Joslin South Padre Island Emergency Room
• Portland Texas Emergency Room
• Calallen Texas Emergency Room

New Braunfel Emergency Room location: