Seattle Health Blog

Climate change continues to talk about and many encumbrances that human beings may suffer in your health. The high temperatures, such as those suffered in the summer can result in acute diarrhea of bacterial origin.

The heat and heavy rains are the ideal setting to create sources of infection for gastrointestinal disorders. With flooding and waterlogging are the flies and mosquitoes which transmit pathogens.

It is recommended that these rainy days to be especially hygiene measures to avoid getting some kind of stomach infection and in turn, ending in acute diarrhea.

Recommendations

Another preventive measure is to thoroughly wash and disinfect vegetables and fruit, washing hands before eating and after using the bathroom, and avoid eating street food, simple measures, known but often overlooked.

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