Water-Related Diseases and Health Impacts
Learn about the various water-related diseases caused by infectious agents, chemicals, dental health implications, and other health impacts due to inadequate water use. Explore how water quality affects human health and the risks associated with waterborne diseases. Understand the importance of maintaining clean water sources to prevent harmful health conditions.
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WATER RELATED DISEASES
Those caused by presence of an infective agent viral Viral hepatitis A, hepatitis E, poliomyelitis, rotavirus diarrhea in infants Bacterial Typhoid and paratyphoid fever, bacillary dysentery, Esch. Coli diarrhea, cholera Protozoal Amoebiasis, giardiasis Helminthic Roundworm, threadworm, hydatid disease Leptospiral Well s disease Those due to presence of aquatic host Snail Schistosomiasis Cyclops Guinea worm, fish tapeworm
CHEMICAL: Detergent solvents, cyanides, heavy metals, minerals and organic acids, nitrogenous substances, bleaching agents dyes, pigments, sulphides, ammonia toxic and biocidal organic compounds of great variety. Affects health directly and indirectly by accumulating in aquatic life used by human food
DENTAL HEALTH: Presence of fluoride at about 1mg/litre protect dental carries but high levels causes mottling of dental enamel. CYANOSIS IN INFANT: Methaemoglobinaemia due to high nitrate cotentent CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES: Hardness of water beneficial to CVDs DUE TO INADEQUATE USE: Shigellosis, trachoma and conjunctivitis, ascariasis, scabies DUE TO DISEASE CARRYING INSECTS BREEDING IN Malaria, filaria, arbovirus, Onchocerciasis, African trypanosomiasis
