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"Self administration of patent medicine may arrest the symptoms
but will occasionally turn a patient into a carrier who continues to pass
out dysentery germs and infect his own family and other members of the
public," he added.
Immunization against dysentery is not available.
Basic sanitation and food hygiene are the only effective measures
to prevent dysentery. The rules to be observed are:-
a) Wash hands properly before food and after visiting
toilets. Mothers should see that the children's
hands are washed before eating.
b) Keep food under cover to prevent fly contamination. Utensils should be washed thoroughly and kept under
cover. Special attention should be paid to the
sterilization of feed apparatus for infants.
c) Exposed cooked food and titbits sold by hawkers are
highly dangerous.
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d) Boil all drinking water. Store drinking water în
clean, covered containers.
e) Put food wastes and refuse in proper dust-bin. Keep
the bin covered to prevent fly attraction.
f) Seck early medical advice when suffering from diarrhoea.
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