Healthy Habits during Quarantine

Maintaining healthy habits during quarantine is very difficult. During home isolation, it becomes difficult to maintain social relationships, diet, and habits related to physical activity. In this article, we give you some guidelines that can make quarantine more healthy and bearable.

The home isolation imposed by the Corona-virus pandemic has changed the lives of most of the world's population. And he did it to such an extent that it became really difficult to maintain healthy habits during the quarantine.

On the one hand, our habits have changed. Our schedules have inevitably changed because we are forced to stay in the house all day. At the same time, since we don't go out often, our exposure to sunlight and our movements are limited.

Food availability is a no less important topic. Restrictions in terms of economic flows are affecting the supply of fruit and vegetables, for example. Not to mention that maybe we only shop once a week and we manage to create a menu with what we have.

Maintaining healthy habits during quarantine therefore becomes a titanic feat, whether we live alone or with other people. There is a stress component that is not visible and that is made mostly by the fear of getting sick. In this article, we present some useful guidelines for maintaining healthy habits during the quarantine.

Tips for maintaining healthy habits during quarantine

Maintain social relationships through electronic devices

Social relationships are fundamental for human beings. Consequently, a healthy habit during isolation consists of keeping communication with others open, whether at home or outside, taking advantage of technological mechanisms.

Video calls, instant messaging, and applications for organizing video conferences are allies that can help us. We must not perceive them as enemies, quite the contrary. The feeling of being in a company while going through the crisis can make our quarantine more tolerable.

Protect eye health

Due to telecommuting or the point just addressed, the time in front of the screens increased during the quarantine. This can negatively affect the health of our eyes, so we must be careful.

A healthy quarantine habit is represented by the acquisition of preventive measures, such as adjusting the brightness of the screens so that they do not create a reflection of artificial light or on the windows. Adequate brightness tired our eyes less and allows us to open and close them often.

Excessive use of the screen leads to limiting the movement of the eyelids, which complicates the lubrication of the eyeball. In turn, this results in dry eye syndrome. This is not a minor pathology since if prolonged over time it can get worse.

A good tip is to implement the 20-20-20 rule of ophthalmologists, who suggest that you rest your eyesight every 20 minutes, for about 20 seconds, looking 6 meters away (20 feet in the Anglo-Saxon metric system). This habit applies to both adults and children. Also, keep your eyes protected when passing through a disinfection tunnel as the disinfectants can cause irritation in you eyes.

Take care of the skin among healthy habits during the quarantine

By staying in the house for a long time and without exposure to the sun, our skin does not receive an adequate dose of sunlight. This results in less production of vitamin D.

The health of bones and kidneys and the vitality of the skin depend on vitamin D. Under normal conditions the organism uses the ultraviolet rays of solar radiation to produce active and functional vitamin D with its benefits.

Quarantine takes away any possibility of going out, but it is still healthy to look for sunlight. If we have a courtyard, we have to plan short exposures there; the same goes for the balcony. In case you don't have either option, an alternative is to spend time looking out the window.

If you have a moisturizer, apply it even if you think you don't need it. We might think that staying indoors protects the skin, but certainly, an enclosed space contains dangerous toxins for the skin, such as perfumes, cleaning products, and vapors that come from the kitchen.

Manage stress

The pandemic is a stressful situation in itself. We are afraid of what we do not know, of not being able to calculate how long the isolation will last and what are the chances of getting sick.

Part of stress management is to establish a routine that helps our circadian rhythm. This routine cannot fail to include the hours of sleep, which we should try not to alter, although the days flow differently due to isolation.

It is also healthy to moderate our use of information. We may feel excessively nervous just by waiting for the count of positive cases and the number of deceased people. Besides, there are several fake news and common places that we must be able to recognize.

We can maintain healthy habits during the quarantine

It appears to be a particularly complicated task, but maintaining healthy habits during isolation is possible. We need to get organized and understand that it is a temporary measure. The quarantine will not last forever and life will continue afterward, so it is important to always stay healthy.