Course Task 7

Dengue Fever, Filariasis, Malaria and Encephalitis

Make a health teaching in tabular form on Dengue Fever, Filariasis, Malaria and Encephalitis
with pictures of mosquitoes causing the said communicable disease, breeding places and nursing
management.

DISEASES TYPES OF BREEDING PREVENTION NURSING

MOSQUITOES GROUNDS MANAGEMENT
CAUSING
DISEASE
Dengue Aedes species 1. Domestic • Avoid crowded There is no specific
Fever (Aegypti or Ae. Containers places. Stay away medication for
Albopictus (Pails) from heavily treatment of a
populated dengue infection.
2. Open residential areas. Persons suspected
Perimeter • Mosquito of dengue can use
Drains repellents. Use analgesics (pain
mosquito relievers) and avoid
3 Covered repellents that are those containing
Perimeter mild for the skin, aspirin. They
Drains even indoors. should take plenty
• Proper clothing. of fluids, rest and
4. Flower Pot When outdoors, consult a physician
Plates /Trays wear long-sleeved at the earliest
shirts and long possible. If
5. Ornamental pants tucked into condition does not
Containers socks. improve after 3-5
(Vases) • Mosquito-free days, then one
environment. should seek further
6. Plants Make sure medical advice.
(Hardened window and door
Soil and Plant screens are secure
Axils) and free of holes
or use mosquito
7. Toilet nets.
Bowls / • Stagnant water.
Cisterns Empty or cover
bottles, cans, and
any containers
 with stagnant
water as these can
become breeding
places of
mosquitoes.
Filariasis Mansonia Africana Their • At night. Sleep • Monitor the
Manosnia breeding in an air- client’s vital signs,
Uniformis places are conditioned room particularly the
swamps and or. Sleep under a temperature.
bogs with mosquito net. • Assess skin color
many aquatic • Between dusk and integrity. Note
plants such as and dawn. Wear for wounds,
Pistia sp. and long sleeves and bleeding, or any
water trousers and. Use skin changes.
hyacinth. mosquito • Assess for any
Clinical repellent on discomfort and
features of exposed skin. pain.
bancroftian • Provide wound
filariasis are care.
the • Elevate affected
enlargement body area to reduce
of scrotum, swelling.
arms, or legs. • Administer
medications if
ordered and discuss
them to the client.
• Provide support to
perform basic
activities.
• Encourage a range
of motion and
simple exercises of
the affected
extremities to
stimulate lymphatic
flow.
Malaria female Anopheles During the Malaria can often History. In patients
mosquito rainy season, be avoided using with suspected
rain pools and the ABCD malaria, obtaining a
water bodies approach to history of recent or
created by the prevention, which remote travel to an
seasonal Gash stands for: endemic area is
River serve as Awareness of critical; asking
the main risk find out explicitly if they
breeding sites. whether you're at traveled to a
In the dry risk of getting tropical area at any
 season, malaria. Bite time in their life
irrigation prevention – may enhance recall;
canals, avoid mosquito maintain a high
seepage from bites by using index of suspicion
water pipes, insect repellent, for malaria in any
neglected covering your patient exhibiting
wells, arms and legs, any malarial
artificial and using a symptoms and
containers, mosquito net. having a history of
and man- Check whether travel to endemic
made ditches you need to take areas.
serve as the malaria Demographic data.
main breeding prevention tablets Also determine the
sites if you do, make patient’s immune
sure you take the status, age, and
right antimalarial pregnancy status;
tablets at the right allergies or other
dose, and finish medical conditions
the course. that he or she may
Diagnosis – seek have; and
immediate medications that he
medical advice if or she may be
you have malaria using.
symptoms,
including up to a
year after you
return from
travelling.
These Keep your • Treat seizures in
Encephaliti Japanese mosquitoes immunizations up the setting of
s encephalitis breed mainly to date. Vaccines meningitis
in rural areas, are an important immediately.
especially in part of preventing • Fluid resuscitation
flooded rice encephalitis. may be required. •
paddies, and Vaccines for Administer
are viruses such as antibiotics
predominantl measles, mumps, • Blood tests.
y exophilic rubella, and • Measure head
and zoophilic, chickenpox have circumference of
preferring to greatly lowered infants
feed on swine the rate of • If encephalitis is
and birds and encephalitis from suspected, IV
to a lesser these diseases. acyclovir will be
extent on Use proper ordered.
humans. hygiene and hand • Bacterial
washing to help Meningitis
prevent the spread (excluding
of viruses and meningococcal
encephalitis. meningitis) does
Reduce your not require
exposure to isolation. Staff
mosquitoes and should don
ticks. appropriate PPE
when performing
procedures such as
blood sampling.
• If Meningococcal
Meningitis is
suspected patients
should be isolated
and droplet
precautions
continued for 24
hours after
administration of
appropriate
antibiotics. Order
isolation status