Washing hands:

• Wash hands with warm water and soap for one minute before eating, after bathing, or after contacting with pets.

Contacts:

• Avoid being in close contact with people who have illness such as cold.
• Avoid being in crowded and indoor environments, especially during cold seasons (early fall) or when your immune system is severely suppressed. Use nose and mouth mask if necessary.

Pets:

• In case of having pet, be sure about their health and vaccination .
• Avoid cleaning animal cages or fish shelters.
• Avoid keeping the following animals: reptiles, turtles, frogs, hamsters, guinea pigs or all kinds of mice, pigs and domestic birds.

Gardening:

• It is better not to do gardening or farming in the first six months after transplanting.
• Be sure to wear gloves when working with soil.
• Do not use chemical or natural fertilizers.

Swimming:

• A transplant patient can resume swimming after the wounds have healed completely (three to four months after the transplant surgery), but be careful to use indoor and chlorinated disinfected pools and do not dive.
• Avoid swimming in small ponds and stagnant waters and public spa ponds.

Other tips:

• Avoid kissing others, especially strangers. Kissing your family members, whom are living with you in a same house if they are not sick, is safe.
• Avoid overheating or cooling the house temperature in winter or summer. Try to keep your home temperature balanced with an ambient temperature and set on twenty to twenty-five degrees.
• Air pollution, especially dust, is the most important cause of fungal infections. Avoid building or constructing activities. Stay away from dust and do not leave the house on stormy days or air pollution.
• Avoid approaching newborns and infants who have just been vaccinated. Especially avoid in case of polio vaccine and measles, rubella and mumps vaccine for up to a week.