Efficient Approaches to avoid Flood-Borne-Diseases.

Rain…rain… go away… come again another day.” Sounds familiar? Yup! Who among us folks can’t recall this prominent nursery lyrics. This song is commonly heard from the angelic voice of our very cute4 and smart kids inside their nursery schools.

It is also amusing to listen and look at our children persistently singing this song while they enjoy playing along the busy streets. However, during these rainy seasons, their innocence can’t resist but enjoy jumping, running and wading along the murky flood waters. They don’t even care if they can acquire various illnesses or deadly diseases.

Generally, health experts commonly agree that flood-borne-diseases are most prevalent during these rainy seasons. According to them, flood-borne-diseases is a composition of illnesses caused by different infections such as bacteria, virus and parasites which are prevailing during rainy and high tide seasons.

These types of diseases are obtained from polluted environment due to improper waste and garbage disposals particularly the human wastes, including, some “unhygienic practices” such as spitting and urinating anywhere.

Among these leading flood-borne-diseases that are widespread during these rainy and high tide seasons are “Leptospirosis” and various skin diseases such as “Athlete’s Foot”, “Eczema”, “Fungi” and other skin allergies.

What is Leptospirosis? It is a dreaded flood-borne-disease caused by an organism known as “Leptospira” which enters humans through mucous membranes (the lining of the eyelids) or the mouth), or by any break in the skin such as abrasions located at the feet. “Leptospirosis” is a serious contagious disease commonly transmitted by the urine of rats and spread through flood waters. Rats, floods, garbage, wet ground and plants contaminated with the urine’s rat mold a deadly combination for the proliferation of “Leptospirosis”.

According to Health Epidemiologists, rats are the most common reservoir of the “Leptospira”. They discovered that there are 160 animals which can be infected and serve as host carriers like dogs, birds, fish and others. These host animals transmit the “Leptospiras” in their kidneys and they can emit these organisms in their urine which can last up to several months and even years. The “Leptospiras” are excreted through the animal’s urine and can survive in stagnant waters for many months.

“Leptospirosis” is a communicable disease which can be transmitted to humans through direct contact with the infected animal’s urine, blood or other organ tissue.

Article Extracted From: http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/beware-of-flood-borne-diseases/