(partner content) In Thailand, the abundant rains and constant humidity during the wet season favor diseases such as dengue fever, influenza or even hand-foot-mouth disease.
The rainy season not only has the inconvenience of soaking your feet and making your hair frizzy, it can also make you sick. The Samitivej hospitals would like to draw attention to the three main diseases that occur during this monsoon period, which generally lasts from May to October.
Influenza
This infection, often mild, can become very serious if it is poorly treated, and degenerate into pneumonia. Fragile people such as the elderly, children and pregnant women should be particularly vigilant, as the symptoms are the same as for a simple cold. The vaccine is the most effective measure once morest the flu because it strengthens the immune system. It is advisable to get vaccinated before the rainy season. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the vaccine can prevent 70 to 90% of flu infections.
Hand-foot-mouth syndrome
This infectious disease usually affects children under 5 years old. The virus is transmitted through the digestive and respiratory tracts. Hand-foot-mouth syndrome is characterized by fever and redness of the hands, feet, mouth, tongue and gums. The disease is mild and disappears following regarding a week. At present, prevention is the best remedy and above all involves classic hygiene such as hand washing.
Dengue fever: booster shot
The most common infection in Thailand is dengue. Each year, the dengue fever epidemic generally arrives in June, at the time of the rainy season, when mosquitoes proliferate.
When the female mosquito Temples of the Egyptians feeds on the blood of a human infected with the dengue virus, the blood system of the latter is contaminated for life. The biting insect will then transmit the infection to other humans throughout its life process. The epidemic is transmitted all the more quickly as this species of mosquito bites several people in order to feed, unlike other mosquitoes which feed on one person until they are full. A diurnal urban mosquito, the Aedes aegypti likes to live around clean water like the water in a vase or a basin.
It is essential to protect yourself once morest this disease and therefore to avoid mosquito bites as much as possible by using repellents (especially for sensitive people such as pregnant women and children), mosquito nets, and by covering your body as much as possible. possible.
Fever, headache, joint pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc. all these symptoms can be indicative of contamination and in this case it is imperative to see a doctor.
In most cases, dengue is cured within a week, but there are more serious cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which can cause death.
The list of diseases of the rainy season1. Gastrointestinal infectious diseases 2. Infectious skin diseases 3. Diseases of the respiratory system 4. Mosquito diseases |
For more information, please contact Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital, Tel: +66 (0) 2711-8181; Email: [email protected]; Facebook: www.facebook.com/samitivej ; Website: www.samitivejhospitals.com/Home/en
