She says:"It is very difficult to make them (affected families) realize that being low height and low weight is a health problem, they believe it when kids start getting chronic diarrhea, or acute respiratory infections, then they worry, but just on a normal day they don't believe there's a problem".
These days, water-borne, hygiene- and sanitation-related diseases are one of the main scourges in Walumbe, including diarrhea, malaria, scabies, trachoma and bilharzia (the latter may even be linked to the high rate of HIV/AIDS here, say scientists).
Infant deaths in poor nations are roughly six times more common than in developed areas and result mainly from easily treated infections like diarrhea in the first few months.
The estimate of health impact includes only three diseases malaria, diarrhea and malnutrition.
Its symptoms are diarrhea, anorexia, and fatigue.
Stomach flu, "winter vomiting," "traveler's diarrhea"—affectionate names for what is known clinically as viral gastroenteritis, an acute infectious illness of the tract by which food normally enters the human body, is broken down, and exits without event, more or less.
Within 6 to 12 hours after consumption, violent abdominal pain, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea appear, causing rapid loss of fluid from the tissues and intense thirst.
If eaten, oleander can cause vomiting, diarrhea, erratic pulse, seizures, coma, and death, and contact with the leaves and sap is known to be a skin irritant to some people.
In infants and children worldwide, it is the most common cause of severe diarrhea, according to the World Health Organization.
Symptoms of salmonellosis include fever, headache, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea; in persons with weakened immune systems or poor health, it can be life-threatening.
The symptoms of campylobacteriosis include fever, nausea, severe abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
