Adhere to basic hygiene rules should be not only for children but also for adults.
Unwashed hands is not only hygienic, but also extremely dangerous. Because through them the person could easily get a huge number of infections, many of which lead to serious consequences, writes the Chronicle.Info with reference to MedInfo.
Washing hands is one of the basic rules that children are taught from the cradle. And while it is one of the most often overlooked. With the coming warm time of year many begin to spend more time on the street — eating on the run, visit summer verandah, go out of town for gatherings.
Of course, most of the meal in such circumstances is carried out without pretreatment of the hands. And as a result the person can easily get infected by serious diseases requiring long and complex treatment, and not always passes without a trace.
Threat list
The number of diseases that can “catch”, just forgetting time to wash my hands, impressive. Among them:
– intestinal infection,
– hepatitis a,
– influenza and other ARVI,
– salmonellosis,
– infection by parasites.
All these diseases are extremely dangerous, the principle of infection is similar in all cases, the pathogens fall into his hands: money, dirty handrails and other contact methods, then the man brings his hands to his face, in some cases of habit — and so the infection enters the body.
The objections of many, that not every hand ends with presentation of acute intestinal symptoms, doctors give reasoned answers. First, if the immune system is strong, it can from time to time to deal with abnormalities and confront them. Secondly, a number of diseases, such as parasites, develops, and takes quite a long time asymptomatic.
Comfort for microbes
Naturally, the most common are intestinal infections. A huge number of them, but each of them is extremely unpleasant for the person. Especially their active agents in the summer when it gets hot and they are set for a comfortable environment.
The main symptoms of such disease are abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, disorders of stool of a different nature, headaches and fever. Such States lead to dehydration and significant deterioration of the immune system.
Hepatitis a is one of the serious diseases that require complex treatment. In this insidious infection can be obtained through badly washed food or dirty hands. The incubation period is 4-6 weeks. The disease begins with fever to high numbers. After this symptom joined by nausea and vomiting. May occur headache, no appetite. When probing you may find that the liver is increased in volume. A week after the beginning of the disease is marked yellowing of the whites of the eyes and ears.
The heat during the heat
A summer cold is a whole complex of different diseases. However, they are not less dangerous than the winter. Oddly enough, the infected in the warm time of year even easier than in the cold. Pathogenic viruses multiply very actively on many familiar objects — door handles, buttons, phones, office equipment, etc. thus need only one virus to find a gap in the immune system, so the consequences were quite sad.
To be ill with SARS or even the flu in the summer is extremely disappointing — and very hard. High body temperature the heat is transferred heavier than in winter. In addition, colds are responsible for serious complications, including pneumonia, ear infection and even meningitis.
And of course, one of the possible pathologies is an infestation of parasites. They act in the body unnoticed, significantly altering its activity inside. Symptoms can include nausea, weakness, headaches, appetite problems, change in skin color. In particularly difficult cases, it develops a bowel obstruction, an Allergy.
Thus, diseases that can be picked up through unwashed hands, quite serious. At the same time to avoid 99% of infection with them is easy, just by following simple rules of personal hygiene. Washing hands with soap after visiting the toilet, trips on the street, and also before every meal will save you from serious health troubles.
The only thing — it is not enough to apply soap to the skin and gently smear it on her hands, and then immediately rinse under water. Wash hands thoroughly, with the procedure should take at least a couple of minutes.
