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- Medical Video: Immigration Courts: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- What is vomiting?
- What are the causes of vomiting?
- How to prevent vomiting?
Medical Video: Immigration Courts: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Muntaber is an extension of vomiting and defecation (defecation). Usually this disease attacks children, but people of all ages can get this disease. Children have immunity that is still weak compared to adults so that children are more easily affected by vomiting disease.
Not only attacks you who live in settlements, but vomiting can also attack you who live in urban environments.
What is vomiting?
Muntaber or in medical language also called gastroenteritis is a disease that attacks your stomach and intestines. When you experience vomiting, you will experience diarrhea, vomiting, feeling abdominal pain, abdominal cramps, fever, headaches, and fatigue.
Continuous vomiting and bowel movements can cause dehydration, where this condition is very dangerous especially for children. For this reason, you should take your child to the doctor when the child starts showing symptoms of vomiting so that the vomiting does not get worse.
What are the causes of vomiting?
Vomiting is caused by viruses and bacteria. In many children, vomiting is caused by a virus called rotavirus. Whereas, in adults vomiting is caused by norovirus or bacteria originating from contaminated food or drink.
Vomiting caused by a virus is a very contagious disease. This disease can spread through vomiting or faeces of an infected person. You can contract this disease by direct contact (such as shaking hands) with someone who is sick with vomiting or in his hand there is a vomiting virus, holding objects contaminated with vomiting, or from food and beverages contaminated with vomiting virus.
From these causes, it can be seen that the environment is very influential on the spread of viruses and bacteria that cause vomiting. A dirty environment can potentially spread these viruses and bacteria. Not only in dirty villages, in the corners of the city that are dirty and densely populated it may also be a place for the spread of bacteria or viruses that cause vomiting. So, wherever you are, you should keep your environment clean to prevent vomiting and other diseases.
How to prevent vomiting?
Everyone at all ages can experience vomiting. Muntaber spreads through food contaminated with feces containing germs that cause vomiting. Some things you can do as an effort to prevent vomiting, such as:
- Always wash your hands with running soap and clean water, especially before and after meals, and after urinating or defecating.
- Do not share your spoons, glasses or other personal equipment with other people, especially those around you who are infected with vomiting.
- Always defecate and urinate in the toilet and clean it after using it.
- Maintain cleanliness in the process of cooking your food and try to eat foods that have been cooked until cooked.
- Children should undergo rotavirus immunization at the age of 2 to 3 months.
