Health Hacks: Tips for Staying Healthy during COVID-19

Keep your immune system strong

Prioritize personal hygiene and limit contact with others

Exercise and stay active

Distract and Redirect

Moving Back Home...

• Set boundaries
• Let your family know your online class schedule and when you’ll be engaging in schoolwork.

• Stay connected to your friends
• Verbalizing our concerns with others can help ease the strain.

• Go on walks
• Get fresh air and some space from your family.

• Engage your support network
• Stay connected with trusted friends and let them know if you need extra support during this challenging time.

• Pick up a new hobby!

• CDC's advice on anxiety, stress & coping
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fprepare%2Fmanaging-stress-anxiety.html

Cal Poly Counseling Services

https://hcs.calpoly.edu/counseling

Cal Poly students can contact Cal Poly’s Counseling Services and 24/7 hotline at 805-756-2511.

Cal Poly Coronavirus Information

https://coronavirus.calpoly.edu/

Cal Poly Student Care Resources

https://coronavirus.calpoly.edu/student-care-resources

Here are a few highlighted resources to support you during this time:

Cal Poly Cares (Emergency Financial Support)

One-time emergency grants of up to $2,000 are available to students struggling with housing and meals, tuition and academic supplies, medical and transportation needs, and more.

Cal Poly Food Pantry

The pantry will remain open to students who choose to remain in the local area for the spring quarter. Students can access the pantry to receive a variety of canned foods, frozen meals, and personal hygiene products.

Meal Vouchers

Meal vouchers for 805 Kitchen are available to students in need of a meal.

CalFresh Benefits

Known nationally as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), CalFresh issues eligible participants with monthly credits that can be used in many places that sell food, including grocery stores, farmers markets and Cal Poly’s Campus Market.

If you are concerned about meeting your basic needs, please contact the Office of the Dean of Students at student-success@calpoly.edu for support.

Campus Health and Wellbeing

https://coronavirus.calpoly.edu/health-and-wellness

Cal Poly Fee Refund Guidelines

https://coronavirus.calpoly.edu/fee-refund-guidelines

Also don't forget to reach out to TRiO staff and your LINKS mentor.

Step 1

Make the hand sanitizer in a clean space. Wipe down counter tops with a diluted bleach solution beforehand.

Wash your hands thoroughly before making the hand sanitizer.

Use a clean spoon and whisk. Wash these items thoroughly before using them.

Step 2

Pour all ingredients into a bowl, ideally one with a pouring spout like a glass measuring container.

Step 3

Mix with a spoon and then beat with a whisk to turn the sanitizer into a gel.

Pour the ingredients into an empty bottle for easy use, and label it “hand sanitizer.”

Step 4

Step 1

Mix your lye into your water (Not the other way around!!!).

Do this in a stainless steal container that can handle heat! (Avoid other metals as they may react with the lye.)

It is best to do this step outside so that you don't fill your house with the fumes. (Try not to breathe them in!)

Once the lye has dissolved, leave the mix to cool in an area where no kids or pets have access to it while you go measure out your oils!

Step 2

Meanwhile, you can weigh and mix your olive and coconut oils.

Mix them in a large bowl with room for adding and mixing the other ingredients.

If your coconut oil is in a solid state, it will make things easier for you to melt the coconut oil first.

Otherwise, there is no need to heat your oils.

Step 3

After the lye mixture has cooled a bit (enough to easily handle the container), bring it back inside and pour the lye solution into your oil mix.

Mix them together gently at first

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Note: You do not need to wait very long. The residual heat of the lye solution reaction can help speed the process along.

Step 4

Once your lye mix has been incorporated into your oils, you can start to blend them with a hand blender.

Be careful not to spray the mixture all over!!

(Place your bowl in the sink and blend in there)

You can do this step by hand, but it'll take a longer time.

Step 5

When your mixture starts to thicken like mayonnaise, after a few minutes, you are at the stage that is called "trace." That is what you want!

Mix in your essential oils or any other fun ingredients like fragrances, colorants, exfoliants, etc.

Pour into soap molds.

(EX: silicone pan, some plastic containers.)

(It's a good idea to oil the plastic containers beforehand to help prevent sticking.)

Step 6

Set aside for at least 24 hours. It will probably get warm.

After 24 hours, uncover and gently press on it to determine if you can easily unmold it.

If it is too soft, wait a few more hours/days and unmold.

You can put it in a cold place to help shrink it a little to help the process out.

Don't wait too long or it will be too hard to easily cut into bars.

Step 7

Cut into bars.

The nice thing about making your own, is that you can decide how you want to cut them.

Let cure/set for around a month, turning every day or two at first, and then every week later on.

This is to let your soap dry out and harden.

Making the mask

Cut your fabric into two 9 x 6-inch rectangles.

Place them on top of each other.

Step 1

Making the mask ties

Cut four strips of fabric, 2 inches wide by 16 inches long.

Step 8

Pin each tie to a corner of the mask.

Step 12

Sew around the perimeter of the mask once more so the ties are attached.

Step 13

Voila! You've completed your mask.

Step 14

Step 1

Mix the ingredients.

Step 2

Pour over rags or store in spray bottle.

• Water - one gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation
• Food - at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food
• Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert
• Flashlight
• First aid kit
• Extra batteries
• Whistle to signal for help
• Dust mask to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place
• Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
• Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
• Manual can opener for food
• Local maps
• Cell phone with chargers and a backup battery

Basic Recommended Items

• Prescription medications
• Non-prescription medications such as pain relievers, anti-diarrhea medication, antacids or laxatives
• Glasses and contact lense solution
• Infant formula, bottles, diapers, wipes, diaper rash cream
• Pet food and extra water for your pet
• Cash or traveler's checks
• Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records saved electronically or in a waterproof, portable container
• Sleeping bag or warm blanket for each person
• Complete change of clothing appropriate for your climate and sturdy shoes
• Household chlorine bleach and medicine dropper to disinfect water
• When diluted nine parts water to one part bleach, bleach can be used as a disinfectant. Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water by using 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water. Do not use scented, color safe or bleaches with added cleaners.
• Fire extinguisher
• Matches in a waterproof container
• Feminine supplies and personal hygiene items
• Mess kits, paper cups, plates, paper towels and plastic utensils
• Paper and pencil
• Books, games, puzzles or other activities for children

Additional Emergency Supplies