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We all know that prevention is better than cure. So as we have seen in the previous pages, the best way to avoid these fatal diseases is prevention. Let's have a glimpse of the preventive measures:

Mosquito-borne illnesses

  • Use mosquito repellent creams and nets.
  • Spray kerosene on stagnant water bodies.
  • Don't allow the rain water to get accumulated in your surroundings. This will prevent the mosquitoes from breeding.

Tick borne diseases -Tick-borne illnesses are caused by infection with a variety of pathogens, including rickettsia and other types of bacteria, viruses, and protozoa.

  • Keeping grass and weeds cut short in tick infested areas
  • Removal of abandoned birds' nests in and around the property
  • Screening and sealing entry points (used by squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, rodents, bats, etc.) to houses and other structures will also greatly reduce tick problems in and around the home.
  • Spray insecticides

Foodborne illnesses

  • Eat cooked food
  • Drink boiled water.
  • Store food items in refrigerators.
  • Cover the food if kept outside to prevent food poisoning.
  • wash your hands properly with soap before eation and after eating your food

Chicken pox

  • Avoid contact with people infected with the disease.
  • Vaccination at suitable age.

Common Cold

  • Cover your nose and mouth with a handkerchief while sneezing and coughing
  • Ensure chlorination of water in swimming poolsto prevent the outbreak of adenovirus conjunctivitis.
  • Infected persons should use separate towels and other personal belongings

 

Influenza

  • Avoid close contact with the infected persons.
  • Stay home when you are sick.
  • Vaccination.
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.
  • Wash your hands frequently to protect yourself.
  • Avoid touching your eyes and mouth with your hands.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

  • Avoid close contact with infected people.
  • Frequent handwashing and wiping hard surfaces with soap or disinfectants.
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.
  • Avoid kissing.

The fifth disease

  • Frequent handwashing
  • Preventing infected persons from work is not likely to prevent the spread of the disease, since it is contagious before they develop the rash.


Meningococcal Disease

  • Since the germ is carried in saliva/ mucus of the nose. So the only way to prevent the spread of meningitis is by avoiding sharing of drinks, cigarrettes, kissing etc.

Cover your nose while you sneeze

 

Diarrhoea

  • Always wash hands with soap and water
    before cooking, eating, or after visit to toilet.
  • Do not eat stale, rotten food, raw and
    unwashed vegetables and fruits and food exposed to dust and fly
  • Use safe water for drinking.
  • Wash utensils with clean water.
  • Keep food covered so that fly cannot sit
    over them.
  • Keep your surroundings clean, so that no
    fly can breed.
  • If proper latrine is not used and stool
    passed in the open, please cover the stool
    with earth so' that fly cannot sit over the same.
  • Do not wash clothes containing stool of a
    diarrhoea patient in a pond or near a well or
    hand pump.
  • Keep finger nails short and maintain
    proper cleanliness.