Question

1. How many times did you fall ill in the last one year? What
were the illnesses?
(a) Think of one change you could make in your habits in
order to avoid any of/most of the above illnesses.
(b) Think of one change you would wish for in your
surroundings in order to avoid any of/most of the above
illnesses.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

I will ill twice in the last year the diseases were viral fever and common flu.

Change in habits:

▪take care of our drinking water .

▪take care of our surrounding and see it it is clean .

▪take proper nutrition food .

One change in surrounding :

Avoiding accumulation of garbage and stagnant water of our surrounding

Answer 2

Answer:

I fell ill twice in the last year. I suffered from diarrhea first and then dengue fever.

(a) The changes made by me in my habits after suffering from these diseases are –

(i) I will always drink purified and clean water and wash my hands before eating any food item.

(ii) I will live in a clean environment where disease spreading vectors will not multiply.

Example of multiplying vectors are mosquitoes.

(b) One change I would wish for in our surroundings in order to have a healthy society is by making pure drinking water available for the people. Consuming impure water is the root cause of many infectious diseases.