Avoid Infectious Diseases With Some Basic Hygiene
Pestilence, plague, contagion. Call it what you will, but infectious diseases have plagued (there’s that word again) humanity since the dawn of history. Throughout your life, you and your loved ones will be affected by infections, and you will be lucky if one doesn’t end up killing you. But let’s not be too gloomy. After all both traditional and modern medicine has been able to shed light on the problem and help is at hand.
The causes of infection are of course, those nasty little critters known to science as germs, bacteria, and viruses and let’s not forget fungus (yuk!). It seems that our bodies are battlegrounds with our immune system having to constantly fight off army after army of potentially lethal infectious diseases. So what to do.? Well, at the less serious end of the scale such as colds, sore throats and fungal infections, such as thrush, that age old remedy garlic has no equal. Garlic is in fact a natural antibiotic and can be highly effective when used on its own or with other medication.
Recently a whole new area involving so-called pro-biotic yogurts has opened up. The idea behind these yogurts is to enhance your body’s natural defenses. One of these yogurts taken every day, can in fact, do wonders to help fortify your immune system. And here’s another supplement that has proved its worth: cod liver oil. It can be taken in handy capsule form and it’s not only good for your joints, but can stave off colds and flu as well.
But what about the more serious infectious diseases? Well, thank goodness we live in an age when vaccination and antibiotics can help protect us from a whole range of conditions which would have proved fatal in the time of our grandparents. That old saying that knowledge is power is still relevant. If only the people of medieval Europe had known that rats spread the plague it would have saved the lives of countless numbers. Today we may not have discovered a cure for AIDS but at least we are aware of its cause and can use an effective precaution namely the humble condom.
Infectious diseases will probably always be a problem and humanity will have to keep trying to invent and discover ever-new remedies. Still it’s a sobering thought that the most effective remedy is probably the simplest and oldest one of all: namely, hygiene. So don’t forget to wash your hands!