更多的食用富含维他命Ｃ的食物（如柑橘类的水果），可增加自身免疫力。如果只能服务Vc片，尽管选用含锌的以提高Vc的吸收。

6. Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

多喝温开水或热汤，功效和漱口一样，只是方向相反。随着热水或汤水被喝到胃里的病毒是无法生存、传染或发作的。

7. All these are simple ways to prevent, within means of most households, and certainly much less painful than to wait in long queues outside public hospitals.

这些都是在家里就做得到的简便预防法，远比痛苦地排长队在医院候诊好得多。