Disease Threats Lurking During the Rainy Season, Don't Ignore These 4 Types

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JAKARTA - During the rainy season, the air becomes colder and more humid. In this season, the body is prone to disease. Because the body's resistance is weak so that viruses and bacteria are easier to attack.

Maintaining the body's immunity to stay healthy is very important. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent it from causing the body to easily get sick, especially during the rainy season.

Several diseases that usually appear during the rainy season can be fatal and need to be aware of. If left alone, it will cause complications. Quoted from the Halodoc page, the following are the threats of diseases during the rainy season.

Flu

Flu is the most common disease threat experienced by people during the rainy season. This disease is caused by the influenza virus that nests in the respiratory tract such as the nose, throat, and lungs. Flu is a type of contagious disease.

The symptoms felt are generally in the form of fever, headache, sore throat, sneezing, to muscle pain.

If this disease is not treated quickly and properly, eating will cause complications such as pneumonia, ear infections, sepsis, even sinusitis.

For this reason, maintaining body hygiene, implementing a healthy lifestyle, and diligently washing hands are ways to avoid this disease.

Diarrhea

The threat of disease during the next rainy season is diarrhea. Diarrhea is usually caused by bacteria, parasites, or viruses. This disease causes sufferers to often defecate.

Usually diarrhea can last for several days with symptoms such as bloating, nausea, stomach cramps or pain. But if it is severe, diarrhea will last for weeks.

If diarrhea does not improve for more than three days and is accompanied by an increase in body temperature above 39 degrees Celsius, as well as dehydration or loss of body fluids, you should immediately visit the nearest doctor.

Diarrhea prevention can be done by diligently washing hands and paying attention to the intake of food and drink consumed.

Tipes

Tipes is a disease threat during the rainy season which is closely related to the bacterium Salmonella Typhii. This bacterium is found in contaminated food or water.

Symptoms of the threat of sickness during the rainy season are often characterized by nausea, vomiting, fever, headache, muscle pain, fatigue, and loss of appetite. Immediately see a doctor to avoid more serious symptoms.

Bad habits such as laziness in washing hands, eating snacks carelessly, drinking raw water, to using dirty toilets can trigger typhoid fever. For this reason, there needs to be a desire to change life to a clean and healthy lifestyle.

Dengue fever

The threat of disease during the rainy season, which often takes human lives, is dengue fever. This disease is caused by the Dengue virus carried by the Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus mosquitoes.

The symptoms of dengue fever can be known after 4 to 7 days after being bitten. Some of the symptoms include high fever of 40 degrees Celsius, pain in the head, joints, muscles and bones, loss of appetite, and nausea.

Until now, there is no definitive cure for dengue fever.

But some healing efforts are usually done with enough rest, drinking plenty of water, eating fruit or guava juice to keep platelets stable, taking antibiotics, and fever-reducing drugs.

In order to avoid the threat of disease during this rainy season, you only need to eradicate mosquito breeding sites, drain and cover water storage containers, and plant mosquito repellent plants.