Tips to stay healthy and enjoy the rains

Tips to stay healthy and enjoy the rains:

Do chlorinate wells in your houses with bleaching powder once every fortnight.

Encourage a thorough de-weeding and cleaning of surroundings as a joint effort of your local civic body and the neighbourhood.

Piling up of wastes should be avoided. Organise cleaning up of garbage on a daily basis.

Children should be restrained from playing in rain water.

Houses and premises should be kept clean.

Discarded containers, coconut shells, disposable glass, plastic cups and tyres are favoured breeding sites for the genus of mosquitoes that spread dengue fever.

Stagnant water on sunshades and terraces are also habitat of the `aedes aegypti' and `aedes albopictus' mosquitoes which are carriers of dengue.

Other common breeding grounds are:

Saucers in flowerpots.
Water tanks
Trays into which water released from refrigerator flows.

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These should be cleaned at least once a week.

The spatiality of the dengue-spreading mosquito is that it breeds in clean water too! So make sure that all containers of water are covered and cleaned regularly.
The other diseases associated with this season are gastro-enteric disorders. Fever, stomach upset, vomiting, and so on.

It is best to avoid eating outside your homes or regular hygienic eating places. If you must eat outside, do choose piping hot food. Never go for cold stored foodstuff.
Keep children clean and never encourage going outdoors barefoot.
Apart from the common worm related infestations, leptospirosis is a new threat that can affect a person from pet's urine, rats faeces and urine etc.
Cleanliness is the key. Wash yours hands well. Keep your nails cut short. Personal hygiene, environmental hygiene and commonsense can save you from illhealth.

Take care.
Anyone with more ideas, do write in.

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