SRL Diagnostics said that timely diagnosis during fever season is a must to avoid major complication from monsoon related issues. In this move, SRL Diagnostics alerted that malaria and dengue are not the only illnesses to be wary of during this monsoon and promised reports in three hours’ time to avoiding losing count of platelets drastically.
SRL Diagnostics has a comprehensive testing mechanism which has BACTEC advantage that evaluates cultures for illnesses with decreased time-to-detection, and leads to potential decrease in length of hospital stay.
SRL Diagnostics has FDA-approved, advanced culture and drug susceptibility testing systems which provide rapid diagnosis and has enhanced sensitivity and specificity with less chances of contamination.
Variety of panel formats (conventional and synergy) support any workflow with a range of antibiotics being updated every year including the latest drugs as per CLSI guidelines. The methodology helps ensure detection of emerging and low-level resistance as well.
According to the statistics from SRL Diagnostics, the number of typhoid cases has shot up from 8000 in January this year, to 17,520 ( by a whopping 119 per cent) in May, similarly, the number of people infected with malaria also has been rising steadily. Compared to the 9930 cases in January, 15,306 (up by 54 per cent) cases have been reported in May. The number of leptospirosis cases has shot up from 260 in January this year, to 326 (a rise of 25 per cent) in May. Overall, number of people screening for fever has risen from 934 in January to 1256 (35 per cent rise) in May.
While the rise in the number of such diseases is common during monsoon, doctors fear that there may be a sudden spurt in numbers.
Some of the most common ones include viral fever, the common cold, malaria, and dengue. However, these are not the only ailments during the monsoon typhoid, hepatitis A & E, leptospirosis, and cholera are equally worrisome..
Hepatitis A and E are viral diseases that spread through unclean food and water, the symptoms of which include an increase in body temperature, body ache, joint pains, and loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting. Skin, nails and eyes appear yellow in colour, these changes occur within 4 to 6 days of appearance of illness. When this state arises, it is called Jaundice.
During the monsoon it is advisable to put a limit on eating out and stick to homemade food instead. Other dreadful disease common during monsoons is typhoid .In the human body, typhoid is usually caused by salmonellae typhi bacteria. The bacteria are discharged from the body through stool and urine. Fever lasting for more than a few days, headache, diarrhoea and abdominal pain followed by a rash in the second week are common symptoms of typhoid, which is generally spread through contaminated food and water. A person having no symptoms of typhoid, can still discharge the bacteria from the body. These patients are called as ‘carriers’. Trying to avoid ice creams this season may be a good idea as they are one of the major culprits of typhoid.
Similarly, one of the most shared monsoon illnesses, leptospirosis, is mostly triggered by walking in murky water with complex chances of infection. This bacterial disease is spread by rats and symptoms include high fever and chills with severe headaches and body ache, charted by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. If not looked after it could lead to fatal situations; avoiding contact with puddles and dirty water is the key, taking a shower once you get home could be a good source of prevention.