What is Cholera? Symptoms & Signs. How is it transmitted? - Dr. Ashoojit Kaur Anand|Doctors' Circle

Dr. Ashoojit Kaur Anand | Appointment booking number: 89715 44066
General Physician & Community Medicine Specialist | PCMH Restore Health, Bangalore
Cholera is caused by a bacteria called as the vibrio cholera and this is mostly through the contaminated water where it spreads. The best way to protect is WaSH, that is washing your hands, maintaining hygiene and sanitation. So washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds thoroughly and sanitation is why is because this is found in places where there is no proper sanitation, especially in rural areas or open slums where there is open air defecation where people do not have toilets that are properly maintained and that will contaminated the water . So through we have separate line of water, there can be a mixture with the drainage water. So sanitation is must. Drinking safe water and having healthy food. The best way to have safe water is many people have RO’s in their home. Otherwise you boil your water for atleast 10 minutes it starts boiling and that is the best method to protect yourself and have clean water to drink. Food safety is important. The outside food can be contaminated with vibrio cholera. So do not eat street side food. Take food which is hot and freshly cooked and drunk lot of waters o the symptoms in choler a is somebody can have diarrhea. Fever, pain abdomen . The diarrhea is called as rice water diarrhea which is not seen in every case. So it can be just diarrhea and needs to be tested. To diagnose whether it is cholera alone. The management is to drink lot of water because the main cause of complication here is dehydration. So drink lots of water and somebody with diarrhea needs to adequately drink a lot of water, coconut water or the ORS which is available as packets in medical store and if need to mix it in water and drink or a homemade ORS with a glass of water and a spoon of sugar and a pinch of salt which becomes the ORS at home. So ORS means oral rehydration solution. So that is best way to protect yourself from getting dehydrated and if your diarrhea a doesn't get controlled with all of this, please report to your family doctor and ask for help and ask for further treatment and management.

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