Children must be given hot food items and boiled water as a strict precaution from these illnesses, say doctors.
While monsoon showers delight most of us, they also spell trouble for a few - young and neo natal children in particular, who are especially prone to seasonal ailments. Cases of gastroenteritis, jaundice and typhoid have gone up by a hefty 25 per cent among children in the city and they are also on a marginal rise overall, say experts.
While incidents of malaria, dengue and swine flu, which generally rise during the warm gap during the series of rainfall, have not gone up in the city as yet, experts advocate precaution.
Ahmedabad Paediatric Association's president, Dr Devang Parikh, says: "Cases of gastroenteritis, jaundice and typhoid have already increased by 25 per cent among children with the onset of monsoon. In this kind of weather, mainly children and new born kids who have lower immunity levels get affected."
Children must be given hot food items and boiled water as a strict precaution from these illnesses, say the paediatric experts. While the cases have not yet upped at public hospitals, incidents of gastroenteritis, diarrhoea and hepatitis E have registered a marginal rise among adults at the city's private hospitals and clinics.
Dr. Shravan Garg, a hepatitologist from Apollo Hospitals, said, "The cases of gastro ailments like severe vomiting, bloody diarrhoea and hepatitis E have started surfacing due to season change." Rain water gets mixed with water stored underground and in water tanks and it contaminates the latter with ecoli bacterial growth which infects the users. Thus there is a a rapid rise during the first few weeks of monsoon, warn experts.
Dr Urman Dhruv, chairman of the Web Committee of Association of Physicians of Ahmedabad, said, "To curb the rise in monsoon related ailments, an immediate shift to the use of boiled water and hot food items is necessary."
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