Preventive Measures for water borne diseases :;
1.The disease should be notified to the public immediately by Health Authorities by placing posters advertisement in newspapers stating preventive measures against such diseases
2.Public should also be educated through posters film strips leaflets and cinema slides
3.Patient should be isolated in a separate room Hospitalisation is preferable Restrictions should be exercised on visits to places which are affected by patients After nursing the patient the attendant should wash his or her hands with disinfectant
4.Patient s stool urine an sputum should be collected in vessels containing disinfectant phenol Then it should be buried or burnt clothes bedding etc should be soaked in cresol solution Utensils used by the patient should be boiled Excreta should be disposed off properly so as to prevent breeding of flies
5.General sanitary measures should be observed which include safe water and milk supply supervision of articles of food anti fly measures control of carriers and good hygienic measures
6.Sterilization of water is necessary it can be sterilized by chlorination postassium permangnate or by boiling Berk field and Pasteur filters are also useful
7.Food should be properly cooked and protected from flies Vegetable and over ripe fruits should not be taken and should be destroyed milk and water should be boiled before use Ice ice fruits ice creams sugarcane etc should be avoided
8.As prophylatic measure the respective vaccine should be given Vaccines are available for cholera (cholera vaccine ) typhoid (TAB vaccine ) poliomyelitis (oral vaccine or vaccine inj) infective hepatitis vaccine and MMR vaccine for measles mumps and rubella Those nursing the patients and the members of the family should all be vaccinated
9.Diarrhoea dysentery patients should be thoroughly treated so that they do not act as carriers
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