Prevention from Infectious Diseases

1. Prevention from Infectious Diseases There are 2 types of diseases : Infectious and Non-Infectious. Non-Infectious diseases are the ones which are caused due to age, environmental conditions, genetics, difference in Anatomy such as Diabetes, Cancer, Congestive Heart Failure etc. Infectious Diseases are the ones which are caused by harmful pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungii, parasites etc. Few examples of infectious diseases are Flu, Measles, HIV, Covid-19 Of all the different diseases that humans contact, infectious diseases are the most common ones and they usually spread through contaminated food, contaminated water, bug bites and even person to person. Majority of the organisms that are responsible for causing infectious diseases are very small and present in extremely large numbers which makes them very difficult to identify with the naked eye and difficult to evade. However, there are few steps that one can follow to prevent these diseases as referred by the top Physicians at Sankalp Hospital – one of the Best Hospital for infectious diseases in Virar: 1.Avoid close contact with an infected person: If someone is infected with any kind of infectious disease, it is always advised to maintain a little distance from that person since the very common symptoms of these diseases are cold, cough, sneeze etc. due to which the infected person unintentionally spreads the pathogens on the nearby surface and air in form of tiny droplets. 2.Avoid contact with anyone when you are infected: When you are infected, try to maintain some distance with anyone so that they do not contact the infection also try to wear a mask and sanitize your hands and the surfaces you touch so as to avoid spread of the pathogens. 3.Always Sterilize your Food and Water: Most pathogens travel either via food, air or water and they enter our body and infect us through our food, water or respiration. Sterilizing the food and water by boiling, radiation, heat etc. destroys the pathogens keeping us safe. 4.Wash your hands regularly: Maintaining proper Hygiene by washing our hands regularly with soap is very important since we come in contact with numerous pathogens regularly and we touch our food, mouth or nose with our hands many times in a single day. 5.Vaccination: vaccines are available for many lethal infectious diseases and vaccination prevents contacting those diseases to a greater accuracy. Try to vaccinate yourself and your loved ones for majority of the diseases as they will protect you and even if you contact the disease for which you are vaccinated; the symptoms will be less severe. Prevention doesn’t guarantee that you will never get infected but you can reduce the risk of infections to a very large extent and if you still contact an infection, visit your nearest medical center to get cured as early as possible.