How to prevent fever ?

Fever is a symptom of infection .Infections spread through various modes including air (droplet infection as in case of common cold), infected food and water (cholera, typhoid), mosquito bite (dengue fever, malaria). 

Prevention of fever means prevention of infection .

         Proper hygiene              Protective clothing for infants     save from mosquito bite 

           Proper disposal of waste             Safe drinking water              Fresh & hot food

                          Save from weather change                          Warm clothing in winters

                Daily bath         Maintain physical fitness     Vaccination against diseases

Typhoid

1. Hygiene

2. Safe food, water

3. Hand washing before eating food.

4. Proper sanitation.

5. Avoid eating outside.

6. Vaccination

Typhoid vaccine, a bacterial vaccine prepared from an inactivated, dried strain of Salmonella typhi. It is given for primary immunization against typhoid fever for adults and children.

Malaria

General

1. Individual prophylaxis includes insect repellent, covering of skin, use of mosquito netting for bed, and avoidance of outdoors at night when in endemic areas;

2. Community prophylaxis includes control of mosquito breeding grounds and protection of the blood supply

3. Antimalarial drugs for acute attacks and as prophylaxis if traveling to endemic areas;

4. Worldwide destruction of the disease has not been possible.

5. Insecticide-immune mosquitoes and drug-immune protozoa have developed.

6. Through the use of insecticides and destruction of swamps, the disease has disappeared from many parts of the world.

7. Vaccines are experimental

    

    

Cholera

1. A cholera vaccine is available for people traveling to areas where the infection is common.

2. Other preventive measures include drinking only boiled or bottled water and eating only cooked foods.

Cooking food long enough, keeping food in the refrigerator, and careful hand washing may help prevent the disease.