Summers are over and we’re again in the much-awaited season of the year – the rainy season. Call it monsoon, or the rainy weather, it is that time of the year when everything comes to life – flowers, trees, animals, insects, and sadly, even bacteria and viruses. With the onset of the rainy season comes uninvited mosquitoes bringing havoc to people in the form of diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and malaria.
This post details some rainy season precautions to keep in mind in order to stay healthy and safe.
As the name suggests, rainy season is that time of the year when the maximum rainfall takes place in a region. In India, the rainy season is also known as the monsoon season. Generally, monsoon starts in July and lasts up to September. With rains, we experience a significant increase in the humidity levels, which tends to promote bacterial and viral growth in nature too. All this makes the rainy season the most dangerous season with regard to our health.
It won’t be wrong to call the rainy season the season of diseases. Following is the list of diseases that spread especially during the monsoon:
Some of these diseases are caused due to poor hygiene practices, such as drinking contaminated water or eating with dirty hands. In addition, some other diseases may be a result of mosquito bites during the rainy season.
Now comes the question, how to stay healthy in monsoon? So here are 10 important monsoon health tips to ensure the health safety of you and your family.
Loose motions, diarrhea, and food poisoning are some of the common side effects of the monsoon season. They are often caused due to drinking dirty or contaminated water during the rainy season. Make sure to drink filter-cleaned or boiled water to keep away from such diseases in the monsoons. You may also opt for packaged or mineral water.
So what if the bacteria and viruses find the monsoon as the perfect time to increase their population? You can increase your immunity too and get a protective shield against them! For this, increase your vitamin C intake by adding food items like the Indian Gooseberry or Amla, oranges, lemons, Chyawanprash, and fresh green vegetables in your diet.
Thanks to the pandemic that taught us the importance of sanitizing and washing hands regularly, we have now gotten into the habit which is only in our favor. Try teaching your kids too the importance of good hygiene by reminding them to sanitize or wash their hands frequently during school hours to kill germs and microbes. These germs tend to multiply particularly in this season.
Eating street food should be restricted and you should focus only on freshly-cooked home food during this season. You never know whether any hygiene standards were followed or not during the preparation of the street food during the rainy season. As such, you might end up falling sick by eating contaminated street food.
It’s good to gorge on healthy fruits during the rainy season but be very mindful of the type of fruits that you eat. Avoid watermelon and muskmelon in the monsoon to keep the problem of diarrhea at bay. Go for other healthy alternatives like mosambi, orange, apple, banana, mango, pear, and papaya.
Stock up your kitchen and refrigerator with some probiotic foods and beverages to stay healthy in the rainy season. Go for curd, yogurt, and probiotic drinks to keep your gut health in order. It will minimize the chance of typhoid and cholera, the two common monsoon-related diseases.
With rain comes the common problem of stagnant water on roads, potholes, and even in plant pots at home. Stagnant water serves as a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes to multiply in number. So make sure to keep your water coolers, flower pots, and tanks dry or change their water regularly.
This is one of the most important monsoon health tips. Do not let the rains be an excuse to leave aside your exercise regime. So what if it is raining outside? You can still exercise at home by trying out squats, burpees, rope jumping, and yoga. Those who exercise regularly tend to fall less sick as compared to those who don’t exercise at all.
Needless to say, one of the key steps to ensure monsoon safety is to use insect repellents. As stated earlier, insects and mosquitoes tend to multiply at a rapid speed in the monsoon season. Use liquid phenyl for mopping floors and insect repellents to keep insects away.
If despite following all of the above-mentioned monsoon safety tips, you or your family members are falling sick during the rainy season, you need an expert’s help. Go for professional pest control or home cleaning service to disinfect your entire home. These trained hygiene experts know how to remove these pests from your home so that you can enjoy the refreshing rains with your family while staying healthy.
The rainy season for kids is their time to rejoice, sail paper boats in water puddles, and get soaked in the rainwater. Why stop them from having all this fun at this time of the year? Why not ensure their safety by choosing home cleaning services or 3X Mosquito Control Treatment from HiCare? HiCare is India’s leading digital and responsible hygiene company with an experience of over 27 years in the field of hygiene. Keep not just mosquitoes but also cockroaches and other pests at bay, and enjoy the rainy season by leaving home hygiene in the hands of HiCare.
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