What is cholera?What are the symptoms?How to prevent it?

Recently, a cholera case in Wuhan University has aroused online attention. It is reported that patients have been controlled after effective diagnosis and treatment, and new cases have been found.

Hooiser is a kind of acute intestinal infectious disease. Since 1817, 7 worldwide cholera has occurred, leading to tens of millions of people's death, health, economic development, social stability, etc. It caused devastating blows. Every year, about 300 to 5 million people in the world are infected with cholera, and the number of deaths reaches 10,000 to 120,000.

In the past 30 years, the number of cholera reports reported to the World Health Organization every year is mostly between 100,000 and 600,000 cases, up to 1.2 million cases, and the mortality rate is between 0.2%and 4.5%. The cases are mainly concentrated in Asia. The economic level in the Americas and Africa and other countries and regions suffering from serious natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

According to data from the National Health and Health Commission, from May to October each year, it is a high -turn season for my country's choice. In the past two years, there have been no choice death cases in my country.

Why is cholera listed as Class A infectious disease?

The cholera is caused by cholera. The symptoms are mainly diarrhea, and even the stomach does not hurt diarrhea, and it will also appear with vomiting symptoms. Urgent onset, fast spread. Polluted water sources and seafood can be used as a way to spread. Very severe diarrhea often causes greater harm to the human body, and will cause symptoms such as dehydration, which quickly leads to life -threatening.

Due to urgency, severe condition, fast infection, and wide spread, it is listed as Grade A infectious disease.

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Note that there are these ways of communication in cholera

The cholera will not spread through the air, nor can it be spread directly through the skin. It is mainly transmitted through the septic channel. In simple terms, it is "the disease enters from the mouth." However, if the skin is contaminated to cholera, not paying attention to hygiene and not paying attention to washing, it may also cause infection.

As a type of infectious disease, the common source of infection of cholera is the source of water. Because cholera cannibalus can be dormant in water for a long time, polluting public water is a common cause of large -scale cholera. Therefore, people living in a crowded environment without sufficient hygiene conditions are particularly facing the risk of cholera. In addition to spreading through water, food transmission is also a type of communication. For example, contaminated seafood, polluting fruits and vegetables, etc., may also carry cholera. In addition, life contact dissemination is also the way of choice. If you contact the patient or the carrier directly or directly contact the items contaminated by the vibration, there will also be a great probability that the cholera will be infected.

People are generally susceptible to cholera, especially those living in regions of poor health conditions and medical conditions, and they are also high incidence of cholera diseases.

What are the symptoms after infection?

In most cases, infection only causes mild diarrhea or has no symptoms at all. Typical symptoms are strenuous painless water -like diarrhea, and severe diarrhea a day. After infection, if the treatment is not timely or inappropriate, it will cause severe dehydration and cause death.

After the choice is found, the patient should be allowed to drink a lot of light salt water. It is best to drink oral replenishment salt with safe water and immediately send the patient to the hospital for treatment. If the treatment is timely, the patient can recover quickly.

Can cholera be cured? How to treat it?

As long as it is found early and replenished water in time, and the use of antibiotics reasonably, cholera can be cured. Patients with mild dehydration are mainly oral replenishment; medium and heavy dehydration patients must immediately rescue intravenous infusion, and antibacterial drugs are given to reduce diarrhea and shorten the bacterial period. The commonly used antibiotics are fluoroprotic acid, ciprobal stars, etc.

How to prevent cholera?

&> &> Strengthen personal protection

If a citizen goes to a country or region to occur in the cholera epidemic, please try to avoid confirmed cases with cholera or suspected cholera symptoms. If you have discomfort, please apply for timely treatment.

&> &> Pay attention to diet safety

Improve environmental hygiene, strengthen drinking water disinfection and food management, protect water sources, prevent pollution, improve the supply of drinking water, do not eat cold, corrupt or metamorphic foods, do not eat raw or semi -cooked water products; develop good personal hygiene habits, rice Washing your hands in front and back, and use the correct hand washing method.

&> &> Improve disease resistance

Persist in exercise and improve disease resistance. Key people engaged in environmental hygiene, food service personnel, medical staff and water residents shall timely vaccine vaccination.

Finally, remember the "Five Want and Five" formula:

Fifth essence: You should wash your hands before meals. When you buy it back to the seafood, you need to cook it.

Fifth, do n’t drink it without cooking, do n’t take care of the unlicensed catering. Do n’t eat rotten food. Do n’t drink overeating. Do n’t touch it.

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Source: Volkswagen.com · Poster News Integrated from CCTV, People's Daily, Beijing Daily Client, etc.

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