People with weaker immune systems are vulnerable to all the diseases, and be cautious from them, especially during holidays or vacations. When one is diagnosed with cancer, he needs to be extra careful while celebrating holidays with friends and relatives. But some people stated their feelings that the pandemic gave them great learning of holidays and made them acknowledge the celebration of the holidays in a better way.
Holidays And Battle With COVID-19 And Cancer
Most people stress about managing anxiety and coping with diseases like cancer and COVID during holidays, according to researchers. For this, there are many solutions and tips which can be helpful.
If a person has cancer and you are a close relative to them, that person might experience different things since his first treatment, like losing hair, weakness, physical changes, etc. We should prepare him for all such changes, and it is a better option to plan ahead of losing all these things just because of a disease.
The study suggests some methods to cope with stress, COVID, isolation, and cancer are to maintain the gratitude list, following the deep breathing sessions, daily practice of affirmations, writing journal articles, and regular meditation.
To have a comfortable and safe holiday season, we have to plan to welcome the drastic changes with proper care. Recently, during the holidays of 2020 and 2021, people faced many challenges and problems because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this COVID pandemic, many infections and transmissions were reported regularly with increasing counts, and especially people who suffer from cancer are at risk.
Researchers say that these recent holidays will be the main reason for spreading the virus due to uncontrolled gatherings because most people don’t maintain masks during gatherings, and that will be the most common point for transmission of the virus among people. So the most obvious solution for these incidents is to spend quality time at home and stay away from the outdoors for this holiday season.
According to the report of the CDC in the United States, it might be hard to sacrifice the celebrations and traditions, but if festivals like Christmas and thanksgiving are celebrated during these COVID years, it will be more endangering the health, and we can’t protect the people and our closed ones.
Researchers and investigators warn the people that “if we don’t precise the estimation of risking them, the pandemic will continue to skip our traditions.”
The study says that traveling will be the most concerning for cancer patients because some might have attached medical devices and have compromised immune systems, which will affect them with difficulty. Now, during these times of COVID, traveling is the first avoiding factor for this holiday season.
Cancer patients should be more cautious during these holiday seasons because they might get easily transmitted to COVID-19, and people who are close to cancer patients must be cautious in order to protect them also if they are not fully vaccinated.
The study is not suggesting to enjoy the holiday season but warning to be safe and precautious with a plan ahead with some important factors like being vaccinated, maintaining the social distance, and using sanitizer regularly.
Dr. Kevin Billingsley is the lead researcher of this study. He says that “heavy crowd places and parties should be avoided if they are under no vaccination category rule and without some major precautions.”
Right now, the CDC of the United States is suggesting people have a booster vaccine after completing their primary series of vaccination. A booster vaccine is suggested because a new variant strain named omicron has been developed and is spreading very fast worldwide.
