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=Keshav=

What can you do to prevent the spread of disease? Well, for starters, you can wash your hands after using the bathroom (perferably with soap) and before you eat. Brushing twice a day will not only keep your teeth healthy, but will help to eliminate germs inside your mouth. Flossing and using mouthwash will also help as well as help prevent germ growth. Shower frequently especially with "cleansing" products, such as soap and shampoo (Note: don't use shampoo everyday. Just once in two or three). This will wash away much of the dirt and micro-organisms on your body, and keep you clean and healthy. DO NOT TOUCH YOUR EYES, NOSE, OR MOUTH WITH UNWASHED HANDS. Doing so is practically giving micro-organisms free access to your body.... Lastly DO NOT USE ANTIBACTERIAL PRODUCTS!!!! Most don't work that well and, in the long run, can increase the strength of germs and weaken the effects of antibiotics: which is probably the exact opposite of what a sick person wants. The farthest you should go, and this is when you have no clean water availible, is use an alcohol-based sanitizer (never to be taken internally, kids). Hey, it's most of what I do! Image: '[|everett washing hands]' www.flickr.com/photos/11134789@N00/122191171 This picture relates to my answer, because it shows someone washing their hands.

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=Michael= Essential Question #3: What measures can we take/ do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?

First, I exercise. Keeping my body fit is essential. Exercising also builds up your muscles, makes your immune system stronger, and builds up my heart. You only have one heart, that is why you must be able to make it strong so you can live longer. Secondly, I cover my mouth when I cough or sneeze. This will prevent the bacteria and viruses from getting into the air that another person might breathe in. Lastly, I eat healthy food such as vegetables and meat and cheese. If I eat too much fast food, I will gain weight, and have the risk of many diseases such as stroke. Eating veggies will give you certain nutritious things, and meat will give you your protein, and cheese, your calcium. I agree with what Keshav said. We should always wash our hands and should avoid using antibacterial products.



Microsoft Word Clip Art. Search "running". This is a person running. It relates because running builds up your heart.

=Haley=

I agree with Keshav's ways to stay healthy by washing your hands, taking showers, etc. I also agree with Michael's post on exercising. In addition to those posts, I think that you should wash your hands with soap right after touching money, for you don't know where it's been or what viruses/bacteria/protists are on it. Also, you should cover your mouth when you sneeze/cough with your elbow, because if you sneeze into your hands and then touch someone after that, you could infect them. I think you should also not share drinks and food with other people, because you can share diseases with them through that. When you have a bacterial infection, take all of your prescripted antibiotics and not stop halfway, since bacteria could become resistant to that drug/antibiotic and the next time you use it, it will be less affective.

I chose the picture below becasue it's someone sneezing/coughing into their elbow.

http://mommylife.net/sneeze.jpg Back To Top Michael: "For you don't know where it's been or what viruses/bacteria/protists are on it." Sounds like you're in the medieval times.

=WooHea= I agree with what Haley, Keshav, and Micahel have said. But Keshav, why can't we use shampoo everyday? I like what you have said.'We only have one heart, that's why we have to keep it strong' Here is my answer. People can do many simple things to prevent diseases. 1. Most importantly, we have to wash our hands with soap before we eat something, or after touching anything. 2. We have to boil the water before we drink it. This measure will prevent us from drinking contaminated water. 3. Same as the second one. We can cook the foods (vegetables, meat) before eating it to prevent contaminated foods. 4. We can exercise to keep our bodies strong.(immune system)5. We have to be careful when we are sneezing or coughing. We can put our hands or arms in front of the face. 6. Avoid physical contact with people when we know we have some kind of disease. This would help not infected people from getting the same kind of disease (person-to-person). This is the picture of soaps. Washing hands with soap can really help us from getting diseases. [] back to top

Michael: You wash your hands with soup!!

=Alice=

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=Dhalyn= I agree with Michael and Keshav with the whole use soap and not anti-bacteria hand lotion because if you use the hand lotion to much than like they said it can make the bacteria immune to it and make them stronger. But the measures I make to prevent disease is I take my vitamins everyday and I shower, wash my hands, shower everyday, brush my teeth, and that's all I can think of at the moment, but I think we should all take these measures to stay healthy and to stop the spread of disease. I also agree with Michael you should NEVER TOUCH YOUR MOUTH, EYES, OR NOSE WITHOUT YOURHAND UNWASHED, because thats how YOU get the disease.

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=Yiannis= I agree with Keshav. It is very important to wash your hands. This is because that there a lots of germs that could be on your hans, and you use them a lot. This is also why people recommend you sneeze into the inner part of your elbow. So it is not on your hands, which is the most easily transported to other people. I also think that missing a shower once in awhile will make you smelly, but it might also strengthen your immune system. Just like the baby article said it is slightly healthy for babies to eat dirt, and other things. Plus, I don't think that making your heart stronger doesn't always make your immune system stronger. Although, if your who body is in shape, I think your immune system will respond better than if you are out of shape. http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_pictures/naiad_gummi_bear_soap.jpg Artist hand-carved all the little soap bears!!! AMAZING!

=Ivory= I agree with everything that has been said. I agree with Keshav that we shouldn’t use antibacterial hand soap because it makes resistant bacteria like Haley mentioned. I would like to add that people shouldn’t use hand sanitizer either. Also, I think it is very important to eat a healthy diet and exercise to build up our immune system like Michael pointed out. Also, I would like to add that taking necessary vitamins and enough sleep are also vital to good health. By building up your immune system, you won’t have to take antibiotics so often. There are many ways to prevent the spread of diseases. Staying hygienic is always helpful. Ways to do that includes washing your hands before and after contact with food. Also, sneezing into your arm (like Haley said) might be a good idea if it isn’t convenient for you to wash your hands after you sneeze into them. Don’t come in physical contact with people you think have the symptoms of being infected. Also, not sharing utensils and the actual food and drink is a good idea. Furthermore, you should always keep out for expired dates because you don’t want to be eating or drinking anything that has gone bad. People should also keep away from wild animals because they could be infected with a disease too. You wouldn’t want to get bitten by a dog with rabies now would you? [] This picture shows how the disease is transmitted from the dog to the person. Dogs that is acting abnormally should be kept away from too. =Manon= Well, we can do a lot of things. We can wash our hands, sneeze into our arm instead of our hands. Change clothes daily, especially your under garments.

As Keshav said already, we should use normal soap instead of anti-bacterial soap because anti bacterial soap doesn't work well and will just make the bacteria that is left stronger. in addition to that, we should not use hand sanitizer either.

We should also eat healthy and exercise daily and keep a healthy diet. This is good for our health and immune system. We should also take a necesary amout of vitamins, as ivory said already. This is also good for our health AND your diet.

Washing our hands is really important to prevent the spread of diseases, it is important because there are a lot of germs in your hands and people use their hands a lot. And I also agree with Ivory, staying hygienic is a good way to prevent the spread of diseases.

Avoid all contact with an infected person. it could be infectious and you could get it as well. It is always a good idea to wash your hands.

Essential Question #3What measures can we take/ do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease? toc

=Isha=

Well I think the most common way to prevent being sick by dirty hands is to : WASH your hands with PLAIN SOAP not with some antibacterial creams or something you even don’t really know.

I was wondering because if we are sick I do not think that other people want to be sick neither so a good advice is when you are sick just stay at home. This will help with not giving the disease a way to spread.

I agree with all the ideas above that people from my class presented.

=Robert= I agree with Keshav that we have to wash our hands a lot. I also agree with Michael that we have to exercise to keep our body going in fit. What I do when I am sick is, I sleep alot. If I was sick because of headahe, then I would eat aspirine, and go to my room and sleep until I feel OK to wake up. I take a shower with warm water when I feel dizzy, because warm water makes you feel nice. Like Michael said, I exercise, hoping that the immmune system will get stronger and fight off the disease. I keep my body hygenic too. This is what I do when I am sick. Except making smily face like the picture above.

=Alison= What can I prevent the cause of spreading diseases? Firstly, I would always wash my hands when they are dirty. For example, after I go out and play. I wouldn't want to bring back all the germs back home and cause diseases to spread. I would use soap to wash my hands so that the soap can lift up the dirt easily, and it would be more clean. I would cover my nose when I sneeze, and cover my mouth when I cough, so that I don't spread germs to others. I wash my dirty clothes, so that germs will not stay on them. I brush my teeth, and take baths, to keep my body clean. I protect myself when I catch a cold, and I try not to spread it to others ( so that they don't get the cold too). I take vitamins to build up energy, so that I have enough for my body. I eat healthy food, take enough rest, so that my immune system can be strong enough to prevent the spread of diseases. And also if my immune system is strong, I will be able to prevent myself from catching diseases. A picture of a bath tub- I think that this picture relates to the topic as I take baths to keep myself clean.
 * Ernie**

What measures can we take/ do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?

We could all pervent the spread of disease by first off washing your hands. I know it may sound easy and you mihgt think everyone does it. But the truth is alot of people dont. If you wash your hand after you sneeze or go to a hospital or tocuh something dirty you could easly pervent your self from getting sick and spearding it to everyone. People think you should use hand hand sanitizer, BUT you shouldn't because it only kills 99.9% of the bacitra and what happens to the 0.1%? it reproduces and it becomes more and more and more. So the best thing to do is just wash your hands.