The rainy season is indeed a challenge for parents to keep their children healthy. During the rainy season, children will really like to play in the rain, even though playing in the rain can trigger several diseases for children.
Stagnant water and increased humidity during the rainy season can also be major factors in the development of viruses, bacteria, and fungi that cause various diseases. Especially children’s immune system is not as strong as adults, this can be a separate factor why children are susceptible to disease during the rainy season.
Here Fitie will share some diseases that easily attack children during the rainy season:
- Typhoid
Unclean water and unhygienic food are the main factors for the spread of typhus, Salmonella Typhi bacteria which is the cause of typhus is very easy to grow in unsanitary environmental conditions.
Therefore, parents are required to maintain cleanliness, especially during the rainy season. So that the risk of children getting typhoid is reduced.
Usually, the symptoms caused by typhoid are fever, abdominal pain, and headache. Maintaining cleanliness is the main way you should do to reduce the spread of this disease.
- Malaria
Malaria is one of the most common diseases suffered by many people during the rainy season, especially for children.
Rain that often occurs usually causes a lot of puddles, and puddles are the most preferred place for mosquitoes to breed. The female mosquito, which usually carries the germ, will transmit it to the person bitten by it. This disease has common symptoms such as fever and severe chills that are usually experienced by people who are exposed to malaria.
Repelling mosquitoes is the most appropriate way to reduce the risk of contracting malaria. Cleaning puddles around the house and using mosquito repellent is one way you can do to reduce mosquitoes during the rainy season. In Indonesia, there are 4 regions with the highest endemicity of malaria mosquitoes, namely Papua Province, East Nusa Tenggara Province, West Papua Province, and East Kalimantan Province.
- Dengue fever
Besides malaria, dengue fever is also a disease caused by mosquitoes. This disease must be treated immediately by a doctor because it will be very fatal if not treated properly.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a mosquito that can transmit this disease to humans.
This disease usually has symptoms such as fever, headache, weakness, muscle aches, to hemorrhagic bleeding which can be fatal for sufferers of this disease. We must eradicate mosquitoes that nest in our homes so that we avoid this disease.
- Influenza
Influenza is a disease that is very often felt by many people. This disease is caused by a virus that spreads very quickly, especially when it is entering the rainy season.
In order to reduce the spread of the virus that causes this disease, we must always maintain the health of our bodies, especially our immune strength during the rainy season.
So that's a list of diseases that easily attack children during the rainy season.
Don't forget to always take care of your health, so that we can ensure the health of our children and ourselves.
Thanks, hope it helps!!!