Tips To Avoid Diseases During Monsoon

MONSOON MANTRA

• Personal hygiene is important. Keep hands clean. Wash after coming in contact with infected person, visiting restrooms, before handling food and drinks.
• Boiling water best method to eliminate bugs. Bring water to full boil for at least a minute.
• If infected, do not spread the virus, cover your mouth when sneezing, coughing.
• Warmed food should be not to the touch, consumed immediately.

FLU/COMMON COLD/VIRALSYMPTOMS Runny noseSore throatCough, Fever

SPREADS: Over 100 viruses cause it but Rhino virus the most common. Highly contagious, spreads through air droplets of infected person’s cough, sneeze, talk.

PREVENTION: Wash hands frequently. Wash children’s toys periodically. Sneeze, cough into tissues. Discard used tissues.

FOOD & WATER BORNE CHOLERA, TYPHOID, HEPATITIS A

SYMPTOMS

CHOLERA: Severe diarrhea with watery stool, vomiting, muscle cramps, reduced urine. Infected children prone to fever and convulsions.

TYPHOID: Prolonged fever, abdominal pain, headache, fatigue. Chest, abdomen rash.

HEPATITIS A: Fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, appetite loss, low-grade fever, dark urine, pale stool, yellowing of skin and eyes (jaundice).

STOMACH UPSET (DYSENTERY)

SPREADS: Contaminated food, drink and water Ice cubes can also carry infection. Hepatitis A from close contact with infected person.

PREVENTION: Drink boiled clean water. Keep food covered and free from flies. Wash hands frequently. Also use alcohol based hand sanitize-r. Eat well-cooked food. Avoid drinking untreated water and food kept or several at room temperature. If infected, take care against dehydration.

MOSQUITOES MALARIA, DENGUE

SYMPTOMS

MALARIA: Headache, shiver bouts, recurrent high fever, muscle pain, weakness.

DENGUE: Headache, shiver bouts, recurrent high fever, muscle.

SPREADS:Bite of infected mosquito.

PREVENTION: Ensure no stagnant water where mosquito can breed. Use mosquito nets, repellents.

OTHER INFECTIONS LEPTOSPIROSIS

SYMPTOMS 

High fever with chills, headache, muscle ache, dry cough, nausea, vomiting.

SPREADS: Contact with water or soil contaminated with urine of infected animal. Bacteria also carried by pet dogs and rodents.

PREVENTION: Avoid stagnant rainwater likely to be contaminated by animal urine. Keep wounds covered.

 

CONJUNCTIVITIS

SYMPTOMS

Red watery eye, inflammation of membrane (conjunctiva) that lines eyelid and eyeball.

SPREADS: Contagious bacterial or viral infection.

PREVENTION: Don’t share cosmetics or eye-care items, splash eyes with water.