The information and precautionary measures of some diseases are mentioned in this article. This information will surely help you out in keeping yourself away from the unwanted diseases. Let’s have a review over them:
1. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES:
When someone is abroad on a holiday then the inclination towards sex is high. Travelers are at risk from the disease AIDS, which is mainly a problem these days. It transmits during the sexual contact and cause major threat to the lives of people involved.
The use of alcohol increases during the traveling and alcohol is the thing whose influence makes a person attracts towards unplanned or unsafe sex. The protections against sex are the same as at home. The use of condom is compulsory in this contact.
The use of lubricant is good but it should be water soluble, still it doesn’t provides full guarantee (e.g. KY gel). You must take vaccines against hepatitis B. If you feel a little that you are at risk then do not be late and visit some doctor even you don’t see any symptoms for that.
2. MALARIA (swamp fever, malaria):
Malaria’s symptoms are more like simple influenza’s symptoms at its initial stage. But if you don’t care for the proper treatment of malaria in time, it will may become a cause for the death in some days.
Malaria is such a disease which is transferred to a human when he is get bitten by an Anopheles mosquito and gets a parasite in his body named as Plasmodium. Malaria has two types.
The one which is really harmful is falciparum malaria. It gets spread really quickly. What is an incubation period – it is the time period between getting bit by a mosquito and the appearance of the disease’s symptoms. This disease has 10 – 15 days incubation period.
Malaria occurs through Anopheles mosquitoes and these exist in the tropical and subtropical areas in a large number. Areas whose heights start from 1.500 – 2.500 m contain these creatures. These mosquitoes are very rare or even barely exist depending upon the temperature and climate of that area.
Where does malaria occur?
These mosquitoes exist in Asia in the suburbs of the big cities, for example, India, but their presence differs from season to season. As they have different seasons to appear.
In Africa there does exist a great risk for this disease but most big cities are free of this risk and its infection.
How can we prevent ourselves from malaria?
The time for Anopheles mosquito to bite is between dusk and dawn so the travelers need to be very careful at these times that they avoid its bite. This creature is very small and doesn’t makes any noise of its existence.
There are some repellents for mosquitoes in which DEET are not much examined. The products which ensure safety to a great extent are Autan-Active and Mosegor.
Try to cover your arms and legs fully with light-colored clothes mostly at nights and in the evenings. Moreover, apply DEET based repellent (20 – 50% for children and 20 – 30% preferably for pregnant woman) with regular intervals of 2 – 6 hours. Due to this regular application, it cannot properly protect you at night.
These are the measures which must be fully taken to reduce malaria’s risk up to 80 – 90% and you can maintain your travel health.
If you sleep in rooms then you will not get bitten through mosquitoes. Try to use mosquito nets on the sills. Turn on the electrically-warmed anti-mosquito plates and the air conditioners. The best thing is to use a mosquito net which contains permethrine or deltamethrine and it hangs over the bed and you sleep under it with tucking its edges under the mattress.
Taking pills to prevent yourself from malaria
There does not exist any drug whose intake can protect you from getting caught from malaria. So take some combination of precautionary measures to have a safe side. The drugs have changed with the passing years.
When taking drugs for protection against malaria, consider the advantages and disadvantages of the drugs while saving yourself from the infection of malaria.
The risk for getting infected by this disease depends on the following things: visited country, and on the region, the season, the duration of your stay and the type of the trip.
Consult the doctor when you are going to use any kind of drug, because just only the doctor is the person who can best prescribe any medicine for you. A big reason for the individuals belonging to a same group using medicines and ending up their lives like this is the use of improper medicines.
Sometimes it happens that while protecting yourself from malaria you take anti-malarial drugs but on the other hand you find troubles in return. These drugs are not always a reason to stop taking them as they are mild and not hard in nature.
Some people are allergic from some drugs because of their composition and some finds different intolerant symptoms when they take some particular medicine. Some people need to switch from one medication to another because of the intestinal problems.
At last, it’s seen that there doesn’t exist any drug which can be a 100% protection against malaria. Travelers must take a fever, which they get between the three months after they come back from tropics, an infection of malaria.
They must start its treatment as soon as possible when they even feel a little symptom for that rather than taking the previously prescribed medicine which is for the prevention of malaria.
The thing to care is the treatment of malaria in time so that it would be easy to treat the infection without having the danger of serious fever attacks. It’s very superstitious and false statement that “once malaria always malaria”.
I hope this information will proof to be the best in saving your lives from the deadly diseases.
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