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(1) Some illness like TB and Anaemia are slow type. One knows about the illness only after a certain stage.
(2) Searching the facility for right treatment.
(3) There is no time in the daily struggle for livelihood and one may as well pull on till it gets unbearable.
(4) Lake of information about the disease.
(5) Some people have financial problem.
(6) Some people feel the illness will be cured by local traditional healers, so they try out this option.
(7) Some people have different perceptions about illness-like god’s wrath or evil spirits and believe that doctor could do little about it. Also generally women’s illness are often neglected by the family members as these are considered too “trivial” to merit any consultation or treatment.
Many girls and boys keep long nails as if it protects against physical attacks. It does not in most cases. Some keep it for fashion and being trendy. However they do not know that dirt collects under nails and may harbour germs and eggs of worms. At times this dirt can go in our stomach along with food. This dirt can be a source of illness like diarrhoea, typhoid, dysentery, jaundice, worms etc. Hence it is always better to keep nails trimmed.
Skin infections or fungal infections are common in women especially on the waist and groins. This is because lake of privacy for bathing. This cause women to bathe with clothes on and hence there is no cleaning of these parts and also breasts. The simple solution to this problem is to create privacy.
Smallpox was a viral (very minute germs) illness. It vanished from the universe due to a widespread and effective vaccine, the global campaign of vaccination and close watch on virus. Several programmes are underway to eliminate some other diseases such as polio.
Dog bites are common. Hydrophobia is not so common and every dog bite does not give rabies. Yet people are afraid of dog bite, as it can be the fatal rabies illness. Rabies has no cure except that timely after vaccine may save cases before the germs reach the brain.
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