I'm a doctor - here are five weird ways you can avoid a winter cold

A doc has revealed 5 'weird' but sure-fire ways you tin debar getting a acold this upcoming wintertime play - and immoderate of them are highly simple.

The adjuvant wellness hacks were shared successful a caller video posted to TikTok by California-based doc Jessica Kiss, who specializes successful household medicine. 

Dr. Kiss, who goes by the username @askdrmom connected societal media, often takes to the level to stock her aesculapian guidance, and this time, she spoke astir immoderate of the unusual ways you tin debar getting sick.

'As a doctor, these are things I really recommend, and I cognize they dependable weird, the past 1 successful peculiar is astir apt the strangest one, but they each marque aesculapian consciousness and are each backed my science,' Dr. Kiss prefaced the clip.

The archetypal happening that Dr. Kiss recommended doing was cleaning your tongue.

'This reduces full bacteria and viral and each the "yuck load" - that's the aesculapian word - reducing the accidental that you're going to get sick,' she said.

'It's really proven, truthful cleanable your lingua erstwhile you cleanable your teeth,' the doc continued.

The 2nd extremity that Dr. Kiss shared was drinking 2 to 3 cups of 'good quality' greenish beverage per day.

She explained that drinking the beverage has been proven to springiness the immune strategy a boost.

Green beverage contains tons of antioxidants, including 1 called epigallocatechin gallate, which has been proven to boost your immunity, according to Healthline. 

'It tastes good, and amended for you than java overall, truthful I personally effort to portion astatine slightest 1 cupful a day,' Dr. Kiss said.

'Do I recognize I'm recommending 2 to three? I'm human,' she joked of not gathering her ain requirements.

Next, she recommended washing your hands erstwhile you get home.

'I cognize this sounds weird, and radical are saying, "Well, wherefore not conscionable alteration your apparel arsenic well?" which a batch of america did particularly during the tallness of the pandemic, with Covid, but probe really shows truly thoroughly washing your hands is amended than changing your apparel erstwhile you get home,' she explained.

'That is however the bacteria, viruses, each that worldly is going to participate done your body, you interaction your face, you're gonna spell cook, you're gonna bash each these things, lavation your hands erstwhile you get successful the house, hard stop,' the doc stressed.

And, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, washing your hands 'Reduces the fig of radical who get sick with diarrhea by 23 to 40 per cent,' and reduces diarrheal unwellness for those who person weakened immune systems by 58 per cent.

On a akin note, the household medicine doc advised viewers that successful the bathroom, you request marque definite to adjacent the toilet vessel lid earlier you flush.

'This reduces the improvement known arsenic "toilet plume,"' she said.

According to Dr. Kiss, 'toilet plume,' is fundamentally 'backsplash' that get enactment into the aerial erstwhile you flush the toilet.

'If you're retired successful public, effort to crook your look distant from the toilet erstwhile you are flushing, don't look straight into it,' she warned.

'Again, this is going to trim your vulnerability to bacteria and viruses, conscionable don't bash it.'

Finally, her past extremity was 1 that was rather elemental - and that is making definite you're getting successful immoderate bully laughs.

'They accidental that laughter is really the champion medicine, and that whitethorn really beryllium true,' Dr. Kiss said.

'We cognize that laughter decreases accent hormone, which increases your immune system, and improves your effect to accent overall,' she continued. 

'So spell up and laughter astatine it.'

In the comments conception of her video, galore users adjacent shared their ain tips they curse by to debar illness.

'We besides hitch down our phones with an intoxicant hitch erstwhile we get home. Since our phones thin to cod a batch of germs and all. (Tip - Sam's sells a ton of rubbing intoxicant wipes for ungraded cheap.),' 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

Another shared, 'Opening windows successful your chamber mundane (if your clime allows)!! I curse by this. I ne'er get sick anymore, adjacent if the remainder of my household is sick.'

'I disinfect my keyboard and telephone astatine enactment each greeting arsenic soon arsenic I arrive,' idiosyncratic other penned.