Deadly Diseases You’re Likely To Encounter After A Catastrophic Event
There will come a time wherein public health services like sewage disposal and water purification will come to a standstill, thus spurring all sorts of diseases that can take your life. Before this happens, it would be better if you familiarize yourself now with some of the more common diseases you might encounter and learn how to deal with them.
Dysentery
The known symptoms of this infectious diarrheal disease are the loss of appetite, vomiting excessive gas, bloating, high fever, and frequent watery stool that have mucus or blood occurring dozens of times per day. These symptoms can appear anywhere from two to ten days after infection.
E. Coli
Once you’ve been infected, some of its symptoms include a loss of appetite, abdominal cramping, gas, watery diarrhea, fever, and fatigue. These symptoms could last for up to a week. If you experience bloody urine, bruising, pale skin, or dehydration, you could have a severe E. coli infection.
Cholera
Cholera symptoms include watery diarrhea that comes on suddenly and looks like water used to wash rice, muscle cramps, low blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, vomiting, severe thirst, and confusion.
Typhoid Fever
What To Do About Infectious Illnesses That Cause Diarrhea
Rapid rehydration is essential when infectious illnesses that cause diarrhea strike. You might be tempted to take anti-diarrheal medications; however, this will just slow down your digestive system and delay the elimination of the toxins that caused your illness.
Having oral rehydration salt with electrolytes on hand in your survival kit can be your best bet. But if you don’t have it in your kit, you can easily make your own using the following recipe:
- A liter of clean water
- Half a teaspoon of salt
- 6 teaspoons sugar
Mix well and drink. It’s okay if you dilute this slightly for children. Be careful not to use too much sugar, which could make diarrhea worse.
For typhoid fever, you can try some natural antibiotics such as garlic, ginger, oregano oil, and honey. Goldenseal is great for diarrhea while clove water extract has been shown to help fight E. Coli.
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