Prevention and cure of infectious diseases
To avoid contracting infectious diseases, although our immune system is very effective, we must follow some basic rules to avoid them.
- Good personal hygiene is essential. Washing your hands before eating or handling food, after going to the bathroom, after covering your mouth when sneezing or coughing, etc., reduces the risk of contagion of diseases .
- Food must follow food hygiene that guarantees its good condition and avoid food poisoning.
- It is also important that the environment in which we live is also in hygienic environmental conditions.
- Using condoms during sexual intercourse also prevents the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
- If we have animals at home, they have to be well cared for and vaccinated to avoid the transmission of diseases.
- There are vaccines against some diseases that prevent us from getting sick even when we are exposed to them.
Some important concepts about preventing and curing infectious diseases are as follows :