Cholera: everything you need to know

[Ayuba Ernest]

Cholera is an acute bacterial infection characterized by acute gastrointestinal symptoms. Cholera is caused by an organism called vibrio cholerae. Cholera is transmittable through faeco-oral route. Cholera normally occurs during the raining season.

Signs and symptoms of cholera: the signs and symptoms of cholera include vomiting which is associated with abdominal cramp, diarrhoea, watery stool, etc. Patients also look dehydrated and a weak pulse. Low blood pressure is also a sign of having this disease.
Cholera could be a highly fatal illness if the dehydration and electrolyte imbalance are not corrected promptly and aggressively.. the common cause of death is acute renal failure resulting from hypovolemic shock.

prevention: cholera could be prevented by taking the following measures: the use of clean and safe water in preparing meals and brushing of teeth, washing your hands very frequently to prevent germs and infection, use a good toilet & latrine if you feel pressed or want to poop, avoid using public and open toilets, avoid sharing toiletries, always heat your food to kill germs and prevent disease, make sure your food is well cooked to kill germs, stay healthy and always live a hygienic life.

 

[TOZZIBLINKZ]

The the symptoms of the disease cholera is followed by vomiting , bloody stooling , low blood pressure , and watery diarrhoea etc . The disease cholera is basically caused as a result of uncleanness ranging from what we eat and from what we wear and including the environment believe . A lot of people live in dirty , unclean and unneat environment and also the water they use in cooking their food and nails are also unclean and unhygienic . All of this accumulate and give birth to the disease called cholera .

The major insect carrier of cholera is cockroach . That is why it is advisable to use insecticide and other insect preventing to to eradicate deadly insects like cockroach out of our environment and place we live and reside . To effectively and accurately prevent the disease cholera from happening to us we must endeavour to make our environment clean . The what are also we drink and use in cooking of food must also be in it . finally we must try to see the doctor in one or two occasions to check our health if we are not convinced that we haven't contacted the disease cholera .

 

[Ithedicious]

Thanks for the great enlightenment. Since this disease or bacterial infection can be transmitted through contaminated water or contaminated foods, it is very important for us to be very careful on some of the things we eat and we shouldn't exposed our food to flies and other pathogens that may likely be a carriers to this infectious disease.

Another way it can be completely prevented is by treating of waters before drinking. Streams and other natural water bodies may be a carriers of the bacterias and may likely be transmitted from water to humans when contaminated water has been taken into the body.

It is a dangerous disease and shouldn't be played with and whenever we observe any symptoms of watery stool , together with vomiting then it is very important for us to visit our health care service so that the appropriate antibiotics should be administered to counter the infection.