How to protect your respiratory organs

Protecting your respiratory organs should start with your lifestyle habits. 1. Wear a mask when you go out. Poor air quality in the fall and winter seasons, but also in the new crown epidemic period, wear a good mask is one of the effective means to reduce respiratory infections. 2. Keep the air in your home environment fresh. Diligent cleaning of the house, open windows and ventilation on the respiratory system has a certain role in the protection. 3. Quit smoking. Smoking tar, nicotine and other chemicals can produce a variety of damaging effects on the respiratory system, easy to damage the airway epithelium and cilia movement, so that the airway purification ability to reduce, but also increase mucus secretion, increase airway resistance, damage to the elastic fibers of the lungs, increasing the risk of lung disease. Daily life also need to exercise more, healthy regular work and rest, light diet. All in all, a healthy lifestyle is good for protecting the respiratory organs, and regular annual checkups are also recommended.