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Treatments for Infectious Diseases

• Antibiotics are medications that kill or slow down the growth of bacteria

• Prescription medicines are used to treat infections and can kill germs directly or prevent them from multiplying and growing.

Prevent Antibiotic resistance

• Do not ask your doctor for antibiotics if you have a viral disease

• If your doctor gives you a prescription follow it and finish your medication

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Section: 1

What are Infectious Diseases?

• An infectious disease is any disease that is caused by an agent that has invaded the body

Different Agents that Cause Infectious

Diseases?

• Bacteria • Viruses • Fungi • Protists • Parasites

Ways Infectious Diseases are Spread?

• Person to Person • Food and Water • Environment • Animals

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Infectious Diseases

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Section: 2

Protecting yourself from infectious diseases

• Your body uses your skin and chemicals to fight diseases. Your body has specialized defenses, such as an immune system and an inflammatory response these protect your body from pathogens

What you can do to stay well?

• Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water a day

• Exercise regularly get at least 60 minutes of activity daily

• Get regular medical checkups seeing your doctor can prevent you from getting sick

• Avoid contact with sick people when you are exposed to people that are sick wash your hands

• Get enough sleep it is important to keep your body functioning properly

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Immunity to diisease

• Vaccines are substances usually prepared from killed or weakened pathogens and then are introduced into a body to produce immunity

What to do when sick

• Drink plenty of fluids • Take all the medicine

prescribed to you • Wash your hands

frequently •

How to prevent spread of diseases

• Get vaccinated • Don’t share personal

items • Cover your mouth

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Common Infectious diseases

Why diseases affect everybody?

• There are so many pathogens in so many places that it is impossible to avoid them

Common bacterial diseases

Tetanus : Symptoms: severe muscle spasms Transmission: enters body through cuts or wounds Strep Throat: Symptoms: sore throat, and yellow or white specks on tonsils Transmission: spread by contact with mucus from an infected person

Viral Diseases

Flu: Symptoms: headache, sore throat, fever, vomiting, fatigue, and cough Transmission: spread by contact with saliva or mucus of infected person Mumps: Symptoms: pain and swelling of glands in the throat, fever, and headache Transmission: spread by contact with infected airborne droplets

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Common Infectious diseases

Fungal Infections

Athlete’s Foot: Symptoms: Skin becomes itchy and red and lesions may appear

Protistan infections

Amebic Dysentery : Symptoms: nausea, diarrhea, and fever

Parasitic Infections

Head Lice: Symptoms: itchiness and sores on the head

Organizations that help prevent infectious

diseases

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• National Institutes of Health • Clinics • Hospitals