Monsoon is the season that brings happiness to our life as it makes the environment cool after the hot and scorching sun rays during the summer.

There are so many fun things that you can do on a rainy day. But a rainy day can be extremely dangerous for you, speaking health wise. Due to consistent spells of rain, humidity settles in and that allows infectious bacteria and viruses to spread faster than ever. So while you’re out there, enjoying a rainy day, be sure to take certain precautions. The following tips will arm you against ‘raining’ infections on and after a rainy day.

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Health During Rainy Days

Try to avoid eating from outside as much as possible. Street foods like pani puri, bhel puri, sandwiches and pakoras may seem very tempting during this season but they contain bacteria that may cause indigestion.

Also, don’t drink water from outside. Most of the water-borne diseases like dysentery, cholera, etc are caused due to impure water. Street golas, juices and kulfi should be avoided during the monsoons. 

1. Street Food Should Stay on Street

If you’ve got wet in the rain, go for a shower to protect yourself from infections. Also, avoid entering an air-conditioned room with wet hair and damp clothes to prevent yourself from a viral fever or cold and cough.

2. Shower immediately after getting Wet

It is extremely important to drink lots of water during the monsoons, so that your system is clean. Boil your drinking water and put chloride in it (for one liter of water put 3-4 drops of chloride) to kill the harmful micro-organisms and other impurities, which might cause diseases.

3. Stay Hydrated

Herbal tea has a therapeutic effect on your body and can do wonders to your overall health. If you somehow ended up getting drenched in the rain, quickly prepare some herbal tea for yourself. Just add cloves, cinnamon, basil, pepper, and ginger to that brewing beauty and gulp it down.

These are body warming ingredients which have other benefits too.

4. Herbal Dosage

Make sure that your house is pest-free during the monsoons. Get your plumber to check for leakage or clogging. Replace rusted or broken drainpipes since they are the breeding ground for germs and bacteria and can cause diseases like malaria and dengue — which are very common during the rains.

5. Keep your surroundings clean

A variety of seasonal fruits like pomegranates, plums, litchis, pears and vegetables like carrots, radish and fenugreek etc should form a part of your diet. But do not have watermelon or mangoes during this season.

Consumption of bitter vegetables like karela (bitter gourd) and bitter herbs like neem andhaldi (turmeric) contain antioxidants and medicinal properties that prevent you from infections.

6. Seasonal fruits & bitter veggies are good

One of the major problems suffered by people during the monsoon season is reduction of immunity level in body. Today, there are ways in which you can easily increase your immunity level through home remedies.

Wheat, barley, horse gram and green leafy vegetables should be consumed during the monsoons to stay healthy. In case you have a sore throat or throat pain, gargle with lukewarm saline water.Boil tulsi, ginger and honey and drink the juice to treat viral fever. 

Increase your intake of vitamin C to help build resistance against infections and diseases. 

7. Increase Your Immunity