Cholera Cholera

Word cholera is derived from a Greek word meaning-pattern or flow of bile flow of bile. A disease which arises from severe infection of the digestive system, due to the severity of diarrhea caused by the disease and it causes a severe drought may also cause death within hours of infection and the occurrence of epidemic, it is considered one of the most serious epidemics that cause intense fear.


Just as cholera is still a pandemic threat, it is at the same time is an indication of the evolution of societies, it does not represent a major threat in areas with a minimum of attention to the health of its population while still disease represents a challenge and a major threat to people in areas that have problems does not guarantee the purity of drinking water safety and sanitation health. Cholera has hit several parts of the world in Asia, Africa and parts of the Middle East.



There are more than hundred species of cholera, but only two of them is in humans. And the first to identify the cause of disease is the Robert Koch Robert Koch in 1883 where he discovered the microbe that causes and that was during an outbreak of a cholera epidemic in Egypt.


The cause of cholera
Microbe called Vibrio cholera Vibrio cholerae. This microbe is bacilliform in the form of a comma, a comma-shaped Gram negative.
Microbe Vibrio cholera Vibrio cholerae



Microbe Vibrio cholera Vibrio cholerae

Mode of transmission of cholera
If people drink a drink or eat food contaminated with one of the two types of microbe Almspban of cholera, the organism goes into the small intestine and produces a poisonous toxin, a protein have an effect on the mucous membrane lining of the gut it produces water and mineral salts cavity the intestines, which cause dehydration.


The incubation period for cholera microbe
Is the period of the capture of infection until the emergence of the disease, and cholera in a short period ranging between 5 hours to 5 days, are usually from two to five days.


Symptoms and signs of cholera
Most people infected with cholera do not feel sick, and the disease despite the presence of faecal microbes have been 7 to 14 days and at the onset of symptoms and signs they are mild or moderate at about 85 percent of the cases so difficult to distinguish from cases of diarrhea that are for other reasons. And less than 20 percent of people infected with cholera symptoms and signs of cholera, which cause the severe drought and most important of these symptoms:

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Watery diarrhea with a little bit of mucus which is similar to rice washing water
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Have the fecal smells like fish
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Occurrence of vomiting, vomiting
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Abdominal cramps
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Dehydration dehydration
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High heat, especially in children

Method of transmission
By drinking liquids contaminated with cholera germs. By eating contaminated food such as seafood Palmkrob others cooked well.


Factors that increase the vulnerability of people to disease

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Malnutrition Malnutrition
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Lack of stomach acid Hydrochlorhydria as a result of taking medicines that reduce stomach acid secretion Kalmstkhaddmp in the treatment of stomach ulcers or injury Palmkrob spiral Helicobacter pylori infection or gastric surgery, eradication gastrectomy.

Diagnosis of cholera
Diagnosis is by symptoms and signs and also took a sample of stool to be tested at the laboratory.


Treatment of cholera
The main treatment for cholera is to drink plenty of fluids to replace the fluids lost by the body, and must be compensated by the loss of body salts and also by giving salts against drought oral rehydration solution, which pharmacies are Palmtnol. In cases of severe drought should go to the hospital to take fluids intravenously injecting the form of solution intravenous drip.


Given antibiotics such as tetracycline, erythromycin, tetracycline and erythromycin to kill the microbes that cause diarrhea and to prevent and stop the loss of body fluids.


Prevention of cholera

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The use of clean drinking water.
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Not to eat seafood without cooking well.
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Not to eat vegetables and fruits washed in the waters of canals and channels, which may be contaminated and eat fresh fruits and vegetables that are washed with pure water.
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Wash hands thoroughly after coming out of the bathroom and before handling food or drinking water by hand.
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Can be used to taste when there is a cholera epidemic or before going to the affected areas. And taste does not protect against all types of cholera does not give full protection must therefore focus on other means of prevention.
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