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Rainy season is almost synonymous to diseases. Coughs, trangkasos and fevers amongst many illnesses find the rainy season a good time for world domination.
Seriously, they are diseases which we encounter at least once a year. Thanks to the rain and all the nasty things he carries with him.
It is a fact that the human body readily welcomes diseases when it is wet moist (that’s the fact behind why we take a full bath and dry ourselves after a sprint through the proverbial ambon).
Coughs,trangkasos and fevers? No big deal, right?
Nothing a bottle of vitamin C, a mother’s embrace and a text message from behbeh q could not cure, right?
Wrong.
The rain carries more serious ailments than the aforementioned illnesses (as if sipon isn’t dreadful enough). Some of it may require hospitalization, or worse surgery.
Worst case is, if you don’t give it proper attention, fatality might occur.
Question is, are you prone to these following diseases that trend come rainy season?
One way of knowing that is to do a research about the causes and, by all means, avoid its possibility.
See, I’m no doctor and so I did some research so I would not sound like an old fart. 🙂
Here are some diseases that reign throughout the rainy season and their probable causes:
Pneumonia
People who have deficient immune systems are more vulnerable to pneumonia. Those with an increased risk include the elderly, young children, people suffering from AIDS and chronic lung diseases, smokers, and people undergoing medical treatment, such as chemotherapy.
(antiinfectivedrugs.com)
Cholera
Cholera occurs in places with poor sanitation, crowding, war, and famine. Common locations for cholera include:
• Africa
• Asia
• India
• Mexico
• South and Central America
People get the infection by eating or drinking contaminated food or water.A type of vibrio bacteria also has been associated with shellfish, especially raw oysters.
(righthealth.com)
Dengue
Dengue is prevalent throughout the tropics and subtropics.
(www.medicinenet.com)
Leptospirosis
Leptospirosis is transmitted to humans by direct exposure to urine or tissue of an infected animal.
(health-care-clinic.com)
The following line must be the most used one in the medicine field: “Prevention is better than cure.” More important thing though is to know what’s your weakness–to know the diseases that you are susceptible to.
And I think the steps on preventing illnesses are just simple and logical.
I mean, a place with poor sanitation? Clean it; a deficient immune system? Get away from the vices;Contaminated food? Cook the food well; Living in the tropics? Migrate. 😀
Those are remedies, which I think, even a student from grade 3B could formulate.
They also say that health is wealth.
And there’s nothing wrong in being greedy this time, my dear Batangueno friends. 🙂
Stay Healthy!
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www.kidney.org.uk
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