How to prevent the spread of malaria in Kenya

  

Date Posted: 10/11/2012 12:52:44 PM

Posted By: Hussein Mutai  Membership Level: Gold  Total Points: 2070

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Malaria is a parasitic and a mosquito transmitted disease and it is sometimes fatal. It is always transmitted by the anopheles mosquito which is said to be a female mosquito. The symptoms of malaria includes the following:
1. High fevers.
2. Bloody stools.
3. Headaches.
4. Muscle pain.
5. Sweating.
6. Vomiting.
7. Chills and Nausea.
Symptoms occur after ten days to four weeks of infection. The worst thing to note again is that malaria has no vaccine and it has been claiming lives of mostly children under the age of five and pregnant women.

The methods of preventing malaria then includes the following:
1. Sleeping under treated mosquito nets which is considered the most effective way of prevention. The mosquitoes cannot have access to you when you sleep under nets. This is because it has been noted that most of mosquito bites occur at night when you are sleeping.

2. Drain any swampy places near your house. This is because the mosquito larvae is believed to grow or being laid in water. Draining helps to kill the mosquito larvae hence breaking the mosquito cycle.

3. Spreading layers of oil in water pools. This is because it helps to cut breathing of the mosquito larvae and at long last killing them and reduce the growth of the mosquito family

4. Spray any mosquitoes in the house with insecticides. This is because some may be resistant to treated mosquito nets and also reduce the growing and production of mosquito larvae.

5. Rearing fish has also been noted to reduce the growth of the mosquitoes. The fish feeds on mosquito larvae and therefore the growth of mosquito will reduce. You can even rear fish in your own house.

6. Cans and tins which can hold water should also be burned or buried because it helps in the growth of mosquitoes

in that they law their larvae in them when they hold water.

7. Cut long and bushy grasses near your house. It has been noted that mosquitoes are affected by light hence they hide in the grasses during the day. Cutting the grasses help in this and plays an important role in reducing the growth of mosquitoes.

8. Allowing enough light during the day into the house. Scientists have proved that the mosquitoes are highly affected by lights and they tend to hide behind clothes during the day. So for your information, allowing light into your house helps to repel mosquitoes.

9. Those who have been infected with the disease and have the stated symptoms should also seek medical advice and get treated with immediate effect. Drugs like chloroquine, quinine and Actm have been proved to treat malaria, but you should not prescribe medicine for yourself.

Now you are in the know, we should come together and fight malaria in Kenya as one or it may continue taking the lives of our loved ones.

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