2023-06-18 19:56:00
The rainy season comes with its share of diseases to avoid
The rainy season has been here for a few weeks already. A very critical period because apart from the floods and other landslides which claim victims both in human life and materially, it is also conducive to certain diseases.
Health experts have listed, in several reports that we have consulted, some opportunistic diseases linked to the rainy season.
Influenza
This infection, often mild, can become very serious if it is poorly treated, and degenerate into pneumonia. Fragile people such as the elderly, children and pregnant women should be particularly vigilant, as the symptoms are the same as for a simple cold. The vaccine is the most effective measure against the flu because it strengthens the immune system. It is advisable to get vaccinated before the rainy season. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the vaccine can prevent 70 to 90% of flu infections.
Malaria: the main wintering disease
The rainy season remains the period when the number of malaria cases increases. “When it’s not raining, the incidence rate of malaria varies between 75% and 85%. But, in the rainy season, this rate is higher than 85%,” said a doctor who requested anonymity. Malaria is a very common disease transmitted to humans by mosquito bites, and more specifically Anopheles (female), according to the WHO. It is favored by stagnant rainwater which is conducive to the multiplication of mosquitoes and therefore the transmission of malaria. For prevention, specialists recommend what they call the “three T’s” (sleep under a mosquito net at all times, all year round and every day). But also sleep under a long-lasting impregnated mosquito net.
hand-foot-mouth syndrome
This infectious disease usually affects children under 5 years old. The virus is transmitted through the digestive and respiratory tracts. Hand-foot-mouth syndrome is characterized by fever and redness of the hands, feet, mouth, tongue and gums. The disease is mild and disappears after about a week. At present, prevention is the best remedy and goes above all through classic hygiene such as hand washing.
dengue
One of the very common infections in this period is dengue fever. It usually happens in June, according to some doctors. The dengue virus first poisons the bloodstream of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, when she feeds on the blood of an infected human. The organism of the mosquito is then contaminated for life, and the infection is transmitted to other humans over the course of the life process of the biting insect. The epidemic is transmitted all the more quickly as this species of mosquito bites several people in order to feed, unlike other mosquitoes which feed on one person until they are full. An urban diurnal mosquito, the Aedes aegypti lives in clean water like the water in a vase or basin. It is therefore essential to protect yourself against this disease and therefore to avoid mosquito bites as much as possible by using repellents (especially for sensitive people such as pregnant women and children), mosquito nets, and by covering your body as much as possible. no more possible. In most cases, dengue is cured within a week, but there are more serious cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which can lead to death.
The rainy season remains the period of upsurge of many diseases. There Airport, aeronautical and meteorological operation and development company in Côte d’Ivoire (Sodexam), in a statement, listed diseases related to the rainy season
Gastrointestinal infectious diseases
Dysentery
Cholera
Food poisoning
Infectious skin diseases
Leptospirosis or rat disease
athlete’s foot
Conjunctivitis
Diseases of the respiratory system
Influenza
In pneumonia
Hand-foot-mouth disease
Mosquito diseases
dengue
Malaria
Japanese encephalitis
Solange ARALAMON
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