Flu To: to kiss or not to kiss?

In this health blog we stop on one of the questions more mediáticas of last months again: the flu A. With the arrival of the world pandemic there are great the questions that you arise, fruit of the exhorbitant alarmism with which they strike us. In this occasion we reflect again on the flu A: to kiss or not to kiss?

This social alarm is born, possibly, of the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, those who were suggesting not to unite nor to give kisses. Certainly, before this, the citizens, that we are alarmist for nature, we wonder if really this is necessary, that is to say: to kiss or not to kiss?

To the margin of many medical insurances that contribute the kisses (which we are not going to describe), something that is more that confirmed and studied it is that two kisses that we have through habit to give in the Spanish society it is a tradition so deep-rooted that it would turn out to be difficult to imagine to have to exile for motive of the flu A. To give kisses is a sample of affection and a social custom, that like all, it is not easy to eliminate.

Obviously, the principal motive for which it is recommended not to kiss is to avoid the contagion. It is known that across the kisses, simply for the next contact face - face between two persons who go to greet, you can transmit yourself gérmenes and microorganisms. But skylight, it turns out to be curious that there are more probabilities of being contagious of flu A by means of a hand hug, other of the habits that the Department calls to avoid.

Then: is it necessary to allow kissing? The recommendation that we do to you is that simply you have precaution when you are with persons with flu symptoms A or in those places in which the transmission of the virus is high. Also, the flu infected ones A must avoid the kisses. In your normal life you should not allow giving two typical kisses, but I insist, it is necessary to have precaution to avoid the contagion.

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