Home remedies for cholera
Cholera is a disease caused by bacteria and spreads trough contaminated water. The dangerous phase of cholera is the grater loss of fluid from the body in a short span of time. In a more severe scenario, it may produce diarrhea within few hours of consumption of contaminated water.
Although modern sewage and other modern methods of water treatment have eliminated cholera in most of the industrialized countries, it still prevails in many developing countries. In fact, cholera becomes epidemic when people are force to live in crowded condition without adequate and proper sanitation.
Symptoms of cholera
Most of the people do not know that they are infected by cholera because they shed the bacteria in the stool within one to two weeks. Nevertheless, they can still infect others. It is found that only one out of ten cholera infected people develops some typical symptoms which are listed below:
• Severe watery diarrhea
Diarrhea caused by cholera is voluminous, with fleck of mucus and dead cells. It is pale, and has milky appearance that resembles rice water. it can become dangerous when the body loses a quarter of fluid in an hour.
• Nausea and vomiting
This occurs in the beginning and later stages of cholera.
• Muscle cramps
This happens due to loss of salt like sodium, potassium and chloride from the body.
• Dehydration
This can develop within hours of the onset cholera. This can range from mild to severe. The common symptoms of cholera dehydration are sunken eyes, irritability, lethargy, dry mouth, extreme thirst, little or no urine output, shriveled skin, low blood pressure and irregular heartbeat.
• Shock that may be hypovolemic which can be one of the serious complications of dehydration...
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...s in three liters of water. Boil this water till it is reduced to half its total content. This final decoction should be given to the patient several times in a day. This reduces the bowel irritation and hence relieves the patient.
Home remedies for cholera using butter milk and herbs
• Buttermilk along with cumin seeds with a pinch of rock salt is an effective treatment for cholera.
• Effective decoction can be prepared from herbs like basil leaves which can work wonders in curing cholera.
• Another herbal medicine is Kutajarishta which has a good positive effect on the conditions caused by cholera.
If the cholera persists and worsen the condition always consult a doctor. However, apart from all the home remedies for cholera, an improved sanitation condition and other personal hygiene will help fight against the contagious disease like cholera.
I noticed a few graves of people whom have died of the disease cholera (Document C). Some campers may need to
Daily take one huge bowel of yogurt via mixing the half cup of water and a couple of-3 pinches of salt.
The treatments followed by Haitians should follow the opposite of imbalance in order to regain the normal state. Compress, baths, herbal teas are often used to restore ailing health.
Hypothesis about signs and symptoms: Symptoms: cramping, diarrhea, and dehydration. These symptoms were thought to be due to the disease withdrawing fluid from the blood and irritating the stomach and
Unlike the first cholera pandemic in 1817, the second one also affected countries in Europe and North America in addition to Asia. Of the seven total cholera pandemics, many consider this one the greatest of the 19th century. Cholera caused more deaths, more quickly than any other epidemic disease of the 1800s. It is an infectious disease that causes severe diarrhea that can lead to dehydration and death if untreated. Eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae causes cholera. After the first pandemic had diminished throughout Asia by1824, the disease began spreading again from Bengal in 1826. It began with outbreaks in the Ganges River of Bengal and quickly spread throughout most of India. It had moved into Afghanistan and Persia by 1829 and surfaced in Russia in August of that year. From Russia, the disease travelled to Poland and eventually Hungary, Germany, Berlin, England, Scotland, and Wales. While the disease was penetrating most of Europe, it had also reached areas in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula by 1831. Thousands of Muslim pilgrims from Mecca died from the disease and carried it into Palestine, Syria, and Egypt that year. Mecca continued to be infected by cholera until about 1912. The disease also reached Portugal in 1833, from an English ship that docked in Portugal. Cholera’s path east of India remains
Ultima, an elderly curandera, teaches a young boy about herbal remedies by gathering plants growing in the llano to cure the sick. She uses herbs like juniper, yerba del manso, oregano, manzanilla, and osha. Juniper can be used for nausea, headaches, and even some bug bites. It is also used for ceremonial fires. “Of all the plants we gathered none was endowed with so much magic as the yerba del manso” (Anya 39). Yerba del manso could cure burns, sores, piles, colic in babies, bleeding dysentery, and even rheumatism. Oregano can be used for coughs, fever, asthma, and bronchitis. “We wandered on and found some oregano, and we gathered plenty because this was not only a cure for coughs and fever but a spice my mother used for beans and meat" (Anya 40). Ultima also gathers an herb called manzanilla. Manzanilla is used to calm anxiety and settle stomachs. It also eases heartburn, nausea, and vomiting. Ultima uses it to cure a man’s mollera illness. “We were also lucky to find some osha, because this plant grows better in the mountains . It is like yerba del manso, a cure for everything” (Anya 40). Osha helps with coughs, colds, cuts, bruises, stomach troubles and rheumatism. It can also keep poisonous snakes
In the Nepal’s example on the web, the child sickness was due to lack of education on food hygiene and lack of infrastructure (sanitation and drinking water). Thus, teaching the mother about treating water before drinking and the importance of hygiene in handling aliments would prevent the child diarrhea episode and even save the other son that died in the past from this disease.
Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa. (1987). Dehydration in the elderly: a short review. Journal of the National Medical Association, 79(10), Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625510/pdf/jnma00925-0023.pdf
Rationale: Early signs of dehydration include thirst and cessation of perspiration, muscle cramps, nausea and vomiting, lightheadedness, and orthostatic hypotension. Ackley and Ladwig p. 345
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