Start with the anti-diarrhoeal diseases from food

Anti-diarrhoeal diseases in the disaster areas to start with food and water

Guangdong CDC Dai Changfang, Director of the Institute of public health noted that survivors living in the open air inside the tent, must be taken to mosquito bites and spread diseases such as Japanese encephalitis, should hang mosquito nets at night.

Second affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen University infectious Department syndey Zhang Director said: compared with respiratory disease, intestinal disease prevention should be in the forefront.

Dai Changfang said that prevention on foodborne diseases from food and water, two-pronged. \"Drinking water with special attention. \" He said, even if water is not contaminated, has to be boiled before drinking. \"It is best to join various disinfectants such as bleaching powder, for 30 minutes before drinking.


\"He said, chlorine bleaching powder in a litre of water with leaves 0.7 mg, effective disinfection.

\"First should be alert to infectious diarrhea due to Pathogenic Escherichia coli. \" Zhang Lifa says,\" the bacteria are likely to cause a large crowd, diarrhea, diarrhea, colitis, more serious illness caused by Escherichia coli variants, such as dysentery, drawing blood, such as severe diarrhea. ”

Hand, foot and mouth disease mass there is little risk

He pointed out that infectious intestinal diarrhea is no injectable vaccines, so the prevention of the disease from other areas. First of all, correctly handling waste, especially stool. \"Teach children in the disaster areas do not obey, should establish a temporary toilet on the ground, and centralized harmless treatment, if the condition is not a simple disinfection can be broadly, as in the import bleaching powder in stool (most cheap , readily available disinfectants), mixed in excrement. \"Zhang Lifa told reporters that in addition to the common Escherichia coli can cause symptoms such as diarrhea, also beware of bacillary dysentery and cholera.

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Many members of the public is very concerned about the possibility of hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak in the disaster areas, in response, Zhang Lifa pointed out: compared with other infectious diseases, hand, foot and mouth disease risk but not large. \"It may be in the small number of children\" looked up \", but the estimate does not scale, for hand, foot and mouth disease occurring in young children, adults, school-aged children after onset is very unlikely, and young children after a disaster often are less likely to get together , so as long as the guarantee of preschool children with no flocks housed in, groups the risk is small, does not rule out sporadic occurrence. \"Syndey Zhang Director said.