Question

Mention two basic principles of treatment of infectious disease

Answer 1

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The two basic principles of prevention of infectious diseases are:

(a) To prevent exposure to infectious microbes.

(b) To provide proper nutrition to keep the immune system in a healthy state.

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Answer 2

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Principles of treatment of infectious disease -

1) General way of prevention of infectious diseases : Public hygiene is one basic key to the prevention of infectious diseases. Thus,in this method of prevention of diseases, following practices are adopted :

(i) To avoid exposure to air-borne microbes, adopt living conditions that are not overcrowded..

(ii) To prevent exposures to water borne microbes, safe drinking water should be provided.

(iii) To avoid vector-borne infections, we can provide clean environment as it would not allow mosquito breeding.

2) Specific way of prevention of infectious diseases : If someone is suffering from a cold and cough in the class, it is likely that the children sitting around will be exposed to the infection. But not all of them will catch the infection. This may be due to a strong immune system.

Immune system and immunisation : Children usually escape cold and cough infection because their immune system (involving certain white blood cells) normally fights of the microbes (pathogenic microorganisms). These cells become active every time disease causing microbes enters in body.

Normally, immune cells (WBCs) manage to kill off the infection long before it assumes major proportions. If the spread of the infecting microbes are controlled, the symptoms and effects of a disease will be minor. In other words, exposure to infection microbe, does not necessarily imply that symptoms are not noticeable.

So one way of looking at severe infectious disease is that is represents a failure of the immune system. The functioning of the immune system, like any other system in the body, will not be good enough if proper and sufficient nourishment and food is not available. Therefore, second basic principle of prevention of infectious disease is the availability of proper and sufficient food for everyone.

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