Diseases of Insanitation .

I thought to myself that let me educate my countryman with a new approach.
Instead of telling the "dos" and "donts",let me just inform them about the consequences of in-sanitation. We know that majority of killer diseases like diarrhea, dysentery,typhoid,hepatitis, malaria, dengue, tuberculosis,measles ,swine flu, diphtheria,polio, tetanus etc are infectious diseases and all of them are preventable by our own efforts even at individual levels.
The prevention of all of them starts as soon as the baby is conceived.Taking two doses of tetanus vaccine during pregnancy and a safe institutional delivery will prevent neonatal tetanus which certainly is a very cheap prevention of this killer disease.Later in childhood and also in adult life regular immunisation will prevent it throughout life.
Starting mothers milk soon after birth and exclusive breast feeding for at least 6months of life will prevent diarrhea and dysentery.our insanitary habits of introducing bottle feeding out of fashion and many other unjust reasons is killing so many due to diarrhea!Even those who survive are surviving at high cost to individuals and community. Doctors often prescribe antibiotics and many other medicines which are in fact detrimental. Injudicious use of antibiotics is a major concern in drug resistence besides the economic factors and health hazards.
Another insanitation results from giving apple ,anar and palak juice to the baby . one can imagine theunhygeinic method of making these unnecessary juices which no baby needs.
The disease producing microbes are all over in our atmosphere due to our dirty habits. The indiscriminate disposal of human and animal excreta,the waste from homes , the leftover organic and inorganic matter in front of shops, homes ,after sabzi mandis, the fecal contamination of leaking pipes ,the un flushed excreta of blocked toilets, the ditches with stagnant water etc are store houses for germs like hepatitis, typhoid , shigella , ecoli , many parasites which the naked eyes can not see but they are in the air every where clinging to us looking for opportunity to invade us for their survival. The result is all the above diseases. Diarrheas , hepatitis , typhoid , dysentery are waterborne, malaria and dengue are also indirectly waterborne as the mosquitoes survive in stagnant water.
Typhoid is due to , dirty fingers , dirty fluids and flies which survive on feces .look at the cost of treatment of typhoid ,germs are getting resistant. The vaccine is available but how many parents do it regularly? Indiscriminate spitting and similar dirty habits spread the germs of tuberculosis. BCG vaccine at birth prevents tuberculosis to some extent.
Hepatitis of many varieties is waterborne and comes in epidemics killing so many. For some forms we have the preventive vaccines which also has to start right from birth.
Even HIV AIDS can be termed as disease of in sanitation of mind.
Why create diseases threw our dirty habits then research for cure and prevention?
ARISE AWAKE and dream no more fight in sanitation on war footing to save the human misery and economic burden.