Home Remedies For Cholera

Introduction

Cholera is an infectious disease that affects the intestines and causes loose motions like water. If cholera is not treated in time, there is dehydration in the person, due to which the person may also die. Cholera spreads due to drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated food. Water or food that contains vibrio cholera bacteria causes cholera.

Cholera (Haija) spreads more in a place where there is a lack of cleanliness, sewer water supply, greens and vegetables are being grown in sewer water or someone's house is located near a drain. Cholera can occur in anyone, from children to the elderly. Pregnant women and children are also more likely to develop this disease because their immunity is less. In cholera, many essential salts, sodium and potassium, etc. are also removed from the body of the person, due to which the blood of the person's body becomes acidic and the person dies.

• Incubation period

This time is from a few hours to 5 days but is usually one to two days.

• Infective period

An infective period occurs until the patient is completely cured and not free from bacteria.

• Immunization

It involves vaccination to avoid cholera infection. Once vaccinated, infection is prevented for 3 to 6 months.

Causes

• Using contaminated water, food, fruits or milk etc.
• Staying in contact with the patient, for example, eating with him, getting up and down, wearing clothes used by him, using any of the items he used.
• Flies are also a major cause of cholera outbreaks. Sitting on open defecation or dirt, flies carry bacteria and spread it to other places, causing cholera.
• Keep food uncovered, and eat it.
• Keep the water uncovered.
• Eating raw or undercooked foods, especially meat.

Symptoms:

• Diarrhoea thin and rice water
• Having vomiting with Diarrhoea
• Excessive thirst for the affected person
• Impaired urine loss
• Body muscle spasms

Home Remedies for Cholera

• Increase the number of beverages. Keep drinking water, lemonade, buttermilk etc. • Prepare ORS at home, for this, mix six teaspoons of sugar and half a teaspoon of salt in four cups of water and drink as much as you can.
• Eat bananas mixed with yogurt.
• Grate ginger and eat it by mixing it with honey. If there are spots of blood in the toilet, do not eat ginger.
• Drink honey, lemon and salt in a glass of water.
• 10 to 20 mg of zinc is needed daily, in such a way, take zinc supplements.
• Make a paste by grinding onion and pepper. Eat it three times in a day for a week.
• Boil water by adding cloves and filtering drink this water.
• Eat fenugreek powder and cumin powder in yogurt.
• Soak raw turmeric roots in lemon juice for 2 hours and then grind it and keep it in a container. Drink some amount of this paste in a cup of water mixed with water and honey.

Prevention

Before treating cholera, the patient should take special care of cleanliness. Cholera often spreads due to lack of cleanliness. In the case of cholera, the following measures should be adopted:

• Do not use contaminated food, water or any other food items
• Do not eat stale food
• Always keep every food and water covered
• Do not let the body lack water.
• If you are getting sick, keep drinking lemonade, curd, buttermilk, water and ORS etc.
• If the person does not stop diarrhea and vomiting, take him immediately to the hospital
• Everyone should get a vaccine related to cholera (Haija)
• Keep everything related to the use of the patient separate from other people
• Clean the floor by adding phenyl to the water, by doing this the germs die.