Sanitize domestic water sources to prevent digestive diseases in rainy season

Water sources are easily polluted during storms and floods; causing infectious diseases, poisoning; can be shielded to prevent dirty water from overflowing into wells, springs ..., treated with alum, chloride lime. Lets read a short news together with   Septic tank   Sanitize domestic water sources to prevent digestive diseases in the following rainy and stormy season.

Sanitize domestic water sources to prevent digestive diseases in rainy season

Sanitize domestic water sources to prevent digestive diseases in rainy season Water sources in stormy areas are susceptible to micro-organisms and also agricultural wastes, industrial chemicals and other substances. To ensure water hygiene, Master, Doctor Ha Tuan Hung, Deputy Department of Internal Medicine (Hanoi Tam Anh General Hospital) advised people to tightly seal water containers such as jars, jars, barrels, etc. lu, well... by a plastic bag with a string and a heavy object inserted on top. In many cases of heavy flooding, even if covered, dirty water is still spilled, requiring appropriate disinfection measures. If the water in the lake or container is contaminated, alum can be used to treat it. The ratio of one g of alum can be used for 25 liters of water. Wait for about 30 minutes, clear water can be used for bathing, and if used for drinking, it needs to be disinfected and boiled.

In addition to alum, chloramine B and lime chloride can be used to treat domestic water for collective needs. To avoid chloramine B poisoning, people need to mix the correct dose with each powder or tablet preparation. Dosage is 10 g powder for a 1,000 liters of water or 0.25 g tablets for 25 liters of water, after being mixed for at least 30 minutes before being boiled for drinking.

Using alum can help purify domestic water. Photo: Shutterstock

A more concentrated solution (chloramine B 2%) can be used to clean and disinfect instrument surfaces. This method needs to be guided by professionals such as health workers and epidemic prevention staff. Even though it has been disinfected, the water still needs to be boiled before it can be used for drinking.

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Sanitation of domestic water sources to prevent digestive diseases in rainy season with polluted wells, people should conduct dredging, cleaning wells, disinfecting water with alum, chloramine B and lime chloride. In the meantime, families should choose to use the least contaminated well for temporary water treatment. If the conditions are difficult and it is not possible to have disinfectant chemicals, people should choose the least affected water source, use a clean cloth to filter many times, treat garbage and residue, can pass through a homemade filter from gravel, Golden sand, charcoal, cloth then used for bathing.

If used for food, families should boil water for at least 10 minutes; absolutely do not eat vegetables washed with contaminated water, not disinfected. For infants and young children, the digestive system is not yet fully developed, so it is safer for children to use bottled water.

According to specialist doctor I Hoang Dinh Thanh, Department of Gastroenterology, Center for Endoscopy and Gastrointestinal Surgery (Tam Anh General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City), poisoning is caused by drinking dirty water or infected with bacteria. creatures after the rainy season are very common. Depending on the risk factor, it can cause acute, long-term illness or lead to death. In addition to water treatment, caution in eating and drinking, people avoid contact with dirty water, mud. The larvae can penetrate through the skin, enter the circulation causing disease.

In the long term, people living in areas that are often flooded and flooded with rain should be vaccinated against cholera, hepatitis A, polio, typhoid, etc. Vaccines help strengthen resistance, contributing to preventing the risk of infection. .

Digestive diseases such as cholera, diarrhea causing abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, headache... can lead to death if dehydration is severe. Drinking contaminated water can also cause salmonellosis, which can lead to intestinal inflammation. Another disease affecting the gastrointestinal tract caused by contaminated water is shigellosis. Shigellosis bacteria have the ability to destroy the intestinal lining, causing stomach cramps, vomiting and bloody diarrhea.

Doctor Dinh Thanh added that polluted water is a favorable environment for viruses to develop such as hepatitis A virus, encephalitis, polio, adenovirus, calcivirus, and rotavirus. These viruses can be deadly, especially in groups with low resistance such as the elderly, infants and young children. Floodwaters can also spread many parasites that can penetrate quickly through the skin such as cryptosporidiosis caused by cryptosporidium parasites, amoeba caused by infection with entamoeba histolytica, schistosomiasis...

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