PREVENTING AND TREATING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

REMEMBER:

• Health is a state of well being. Disease is when the body stops working correctly and symptoms appear.
• We can stay healthy by keeping healthy habits, like enough rest, a balanced diet, good hygiene and physical exercise.

Preventing infectious diseases:

• With good hygiene.
• With vaccines: where a dead or inactive pathogen enters a healthy body.

Treatment for infections diseases:

• Diseases caused by microorganisms are treated by antibiotics.
• Infections caused by fungy are treated with antifugal medicines.
• Medicines for diseases caused by viruses can only relieve symptoms.