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Wash Your Hands
This habit can reduce your illnesses, and absences. You will be present for more time with your friends and activities because you are well. If soap and water are not available use hand sanitizer. Carrying a mini container of hand sanitizer in your pocket or in your backpack is a good way to stay healthy all year.
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Eat Breakfast
This is a must for being health and staying healthy. You will be able to think quicker and have more energy to do the things you enjoy. This practice actual increases your metabolism and keeps you from storing fat after your fast from hours of sleep. It has been proven that students who eat breakfast perform better academically. It also helps your gastrointestinal health by reducing stomach acid and reducing stomaches. Bon Appetite :)
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Hydration is the Key
Drinking enough water daily can improve your thinking, physical endurance,vascular health, while promoting healthy skin and hair. Six to eight four ounce glasses are recommended daily (about 32 ounces a day). Athletes will need to drink more than this while exercising.
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Get Enough Sleep
Most of us are so busy that the first way to fit everything in is to skip sleep. Sleep is essential for good brain health and we need this time to re-charge our thinking power. Sleep deprivation can cause inattentiveness, headaches, reduce our infection fighting ability, and slow our reflexes down.
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Exercise Benefits
Exercise not only improves our physical endurance and performance, it also improves our thinking skills. It has been shown that students who are involved in regular exercise perform better academically. It also reduces stress and the way we handle stressful situations. Exercise improves our infection fighting ability, and mental wellness. When illness does strike the illness is usually not as long in duration for those individuals that exercise on a regular basis. Get out and involve yourself in an exercise activity that you enjoy.
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Coughing and Sneezing (cough or sneeze in your sleeve-keep it to yourself)
This is always annoying when you get ill. Try to take comfort measures by using a water bottle to sip for suppressing the cough with throat soothing cough drops. The practice of drinking water will actually speed up your recovery as well as suppress your cough. Gargling a mild mouth wash and blowing your nose will also reduce the coughing and control your sneezing. Always cough into your sleeve or the inner part of your elbow to reduce spreading your germs to others. You may still attend school when you have a cough, as long as your temperature does on go above 100 degrees.
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Staying Home When You Are Ill
The best way to get better is to rest and stay home. Remember, you can always make your work up upon your return. Most illness do not require you to miss school, and there are treatments that can help get you through the school day. You need a doctor's note to excuse you from missing three consecutive days of school. You must stay home if your fever is above 100 degrees. If you run a fever above 100 degrees for two days or more it is advisable to see a doctor. There are times when you have to be in school when you do not feel well. The nurses are always there to help and advise you about taking certain measures to improve your well being during the school day when you do not feel well.
