Preventing ourselves from diseases

Some diseases are mild and very common like cold, so we either do not have to take special measures to protect ourselves from them or sometimes need to take very simple measures to protect ourselves. Others like measles can kill a baby, so we protect the baby by vaccinating it.

Let’s try to think of ways to protect ourselves from diseases.

In the previous activity, you had made a list of diseases and their routes. 

Suggest ways of preventing ourselves from diseases based on the routes of the diseases.
Make a body outline like the one given below . Select each route one by one and then write the ways to protect yourself from getting diseases through those routes.

Let’s take nose (route) as an example. To prevent getting a disease through our nose we can wear a mask. You can mark the nose on the body outline and write mask near it.

In this unit we looked at health in an overall manner not just the physical health. We also saw ways in which we can protect ourselves from getting some diseases. To effectively protect ourselves from diseases it is sometimes important to understand what causes the disease. 

In the next unit we will look at the story of discovery of the organism that causes malaria.