Monsoon provides you relief from the scorching heat. But, do you know that your immunity can go down during the rainy season? Every monsoon season, the risk of catching various diseases goes up due to unhygienic conditions and not adhering to basic preventive measures. Hence, early diagnosis and treatment is the key to keep these diseases away. Dr Prashant Borade, Head of Critical Care, Global Hospital, Mumbai lists out some common monsoon diseases and tips to tackle it.

Dengue: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is a fast-emerging pandemic-prone viral disease in many parts of the world. It is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing severe flu-like illness and, sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. One may exhibit symptoms like aching muscles and joints, body rash that can disappear and then reappear, high fever, headache, and pain behind the eyes, vomiting, and nausea. Your expert will prescribe you medications to deal with it. And to prevent it, reduce the amount of skin exposed by wearing long-sleeved clothes. Use mosquito repellents, traps and nets. The Aedes mosquito tends to breed in clean, stagnant water. Thus, turn buckets and watering cans over and store them under shelter so that water cannot accumulate and take out excess water from plant pot plates.