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What Infectious Diseases People Should Be Alert of in Swimming
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Posted On :
Jul-30-2011
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Swimming has become a fashion and it is a popular summer activity for people to avoid heat and clean skins. Swimming could also strengthen the muscle flexibility, increase the heart function, improve the blood vessel elasticity and increase lung capacity. However, most swimming fans should notice the potential safety hazards around them and prevent the incidence of infectious diseases.
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Swimming has become a fashion and it is a popular summer activity for people to avoid heat and clean skins. Swimming could also strengthen the muscle flexibility, increase the heart function, improve the blood vessel elasticity and increase lung capacity. However, most swimming fans should notice the potential safety hazards around them and prevent the incidence of infectious diseases.
Eye infection: Acute conjunctivitis is one of the most common eye diseases. It often happens on swimmers because of the inadequate disinfectant swimming pool. This disease has strong and speedy infectivity through hands, towel and water. When your eyes have itching and burning feelings, conjunctival hyperemia or photophobia, you have to go to regular hospital to use eye drops under the guidance of doctors. It is better to keep distance with others and avoid going to public swimming pools. Healthy people do not share bathing items with others and rub your eyes in swimming. They are suggested to use eye drops and wear goggles to prevent the eye disease infection.
Skin infection: People should pay attention to the prevention of skin diseases in swimming, such as the fungal infections including jock itch and gray nails could be spread through slippers and towels. Therefore, swimmers should prepare towels, slippers and other items before swimming; have a bath in advance to brush away the sweat in the body to avoid the pollution on water; do appropriate exercise before entering into the swimming pool and do not sit on the ground beside to avoid fungal infections; after swimming, take shower immediately and use diluted iodic liquid to wipe skins so that to prevent the incidence of skin infections.
Ear inflammation: We all know that the water is easy to flow into ears, and the dirty water in ears could cause the external auditory canal and middle ear disease such as purulent otitis media, acute otitis media and acute otitis externa. To prevent such cases, it is better to equip with special ear plugs to prevent water flowing into ear. If the water flows into the ears, do not use matches or other sharp things to draw out to avoid the infection caused by puncturing external auditory canal or tympanic membrane.
People who have some infectious diseases should not go to public swimming pools to avoid the worsening situation and infection to others. Here, we really hope people could enjoy the cool swimming water in summer while protecting themselves from the bacteria infection.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_What Infectious Diseases People Should Be Alert of in Swimming_70010.aspx
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Keywords :
Swimming, infection, prevention,
Category :
Health and Fitness
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Health and Fitness
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