Good medical science daily science 丨 flood disasters beware of these types of diseases

The flood season is coming, and flood disasters are prone to occur. Disease prevention after flood disasters is particularly important. Doing a good job of hygienic and epidemic prevention is an important task of anti -flood relief. So what diseases are prone to occur after flooding? How to prevent it? In this issue, Yang Xuefan, deputy chief physician of Chongqing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explained to everyone.

Expert Introduction

Yang Xuefan, deputy chief physician and master's degree in the Chongqing Disease Prevention and Control Center Disinfection and Medical Biological Control Institute.

Why is it prone to infectious diseases after flood disasters?

After the flood disaster, due to the damage of the water supply system, the difficulty of food safety, the destruction of the living conditions, the increase in the chance of contact with the people and the diseased biological, the increase of population, decreased crowd resistance, and decreased health services and reduction of health services It is very easy to occur in various types of infectious diseases, especially the outbreak and epidemic of intestinal infectious diseases and natural epidemic diseases.

In order to better ensure the health after the disaster, while strengthening the emergency medical rescue after the disaster, various pastro -hygiene prevention work should be actively carried out to prevent various types of infectious disease epidemic in the post -disaster -stricken area.

After the flood disaster, you should be alert to these diseases

1. Infement infectious diseases

Infectious diseases are a type of disease that invades the intestinal tract through the mouth and causes diarrhea and/or other organs and systemic infections. Common intestinal infectious diseases in the disaster areas are infectious diarrhea, cholera, bacterial dysentery, typhoid fever and sub -typhoid fever, viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, hepatitis A), hand, foot and mouth disease.

2. Insect media and natural epidemic diseases

Natural epidemic disease refers to diseases that exist for a long time under natural conditions, are popular among wild animals, and will infect human diseases under certain conditions. Natural epidemic diseases are significantly affected by natural factors. Due to the changes in natural environment during the flood, the changes in habitats of temperature, humidity, water levels and media creatures have affected the growth and reproduction and life of the pathogen, the source of the media, and the host of the host. Habits; on the other hand, during the occurrence of natural disasters, the people's living conditions, malnutrition, and mental psychological depression in the disaster areas have caused the body's resistance to the disease to the disease and the damage in the disaster -stricken areas. And outbreak. Natural epidemic infectious diseases that require key prevention after floods include kidney syndrome bleeding fever (epidemic hemorrhage fever), hook -end spiral disease, epidemic encephalitis, malaria, hemorrhoid disease, plague, anthracnose, Brucetae Diseases and so on.

3. Other diseases

Such as acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, food poisoning, dermatitis, heat stroke, etc.

Do this after the flood disaster to prevent disease prevention

After the flood disaster, you need to start from both environmental sanitation and personal hygiene. In particular, you should pay attention to drinking water hygiene and food hygiene. The following points should be done:

1. Pay attention to drinking water hygiene. Do not drink raw water, only drink boiling water or meet the hygiene standards, and toilet water. For the well -drinking well water, river water, lake water, pond water, etc., be sure to disinfect or boil it before drinking.

2. Pay attention to food hygiene. Food should be cooked and cooked, cooked and separated, tableware must be cleaned and disinfected, and wash your hands before eating; do not eat foods that are spoiled, unknown, or soaked by floods; Products; do not eat leftovers leftovers, do not eat cold foods; do not eat packaged foods that are damaged or exceeded by the shelf life; do not eat wild mushrooms and other wild vegetables.

3. Pay attention to hand cleaning, do not rub your eyes with your hands, especially dirty hands.

4. Prevent skin ulcers. Keep the skin clean and dry. Wear boots when launching work, and wash your feet and wear dry shoes after you leave the water.

5. Pay attention to environmental hygiene. Clean up the indoor and outdoor environment, clean up first, then disinfect, and then relocate. Do not urinate anytime, feces, excretion and garbage are discharged in the designated area.

6. Do a good job of diseases of diseases. Anti -mosquito and mosquito, flies, fly, and prevent mice. Clean up garbage accumulation, remove all kinds of mosquito flies, and keep the house and the ground nearby clean and dry.

7. Seek medical treatment in time. If you feel that your body is not in time, you should find a doctor for treatment in time. Especially patients with fever and diarrhea should seek doctor help as soon as possible.

8. Pay attention to mental health. Acute stress reactions are prone to occur after the disaster, and most of them are significantly relieved within 30 days. Maintain a positive state of psychological and good life. If it has not been recovered for more than a month, he should ask a psychiatrist for help or consult the psychological crisis intervention agency. (Invited experts/editor of Yang Xuefan/Wang Fengtu/Vision China)

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