“One thing is to increase overall body resistance with the help of winter swimming (or hardening), and another thing – a direct impact on the human body of infectious agents (including viruses). Of course, tempering increases the body’s ability to fight diseases, but in certain situations this is not enough – said “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, the expert of the Center for molecular diagnostics CMD TSNII of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Mikhail Lebedev.
According to him, if the infectious dose (the number of the pathogen, simultaneously trapped in the body) is high enough, the disease can be almost inevitable.
“However, tempering makes it possible to significantly reduce the severity and duration of the disease, the probability and frequency of complications”, – said the expert.
Earlier, Mikhail Lebedev has told “RG” in open water there is little risk of Contracting the virus, including the new SARS-CoV-2.
“the Mers respiratory virus, the causative agent of SARS. It is transmitted from person to person by airborne droplets and contact-household ways. As for open water, then there is a chance of Contracting bacterial or parasitic infection, but not a coronavirus. In open water should be afraid of other existing infections. It can be the causative agents of acute intestinal infections. In some regions it could be a viral hepatitis a (Botkin’s disease), parasitic diseases, helminth infestation.”
