Is your New Home aide Healthy?

This weeks most of us would be the arrival of new people in our family environment is a new housekeeper. Many things we need to know about them as our new environment. One thing we need to know from them is whether they are healthy? Whether they are also accustomed to healthy behavior. In general, they will be friends for our children especially when we as parents have to work all day. Our children will be more prolonged contact with our helpers than we as parents with our children. Sometimes because of our busy, our maids of health problems this is a problem that we consider trivial and unimportant. But we will be surprised one day when we learned that our son was sentenced to suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis. This happened to my nephew last year when the new 5-year son was sentenced to suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis. Incidentally the child's weight does not go up-up and frequent colds and coughs through a series of examinations including blood tests and chest x-rays known my nephew suffered pulmonary tuberculosis. Both parents healthy and never suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis since the child was born. Of course eventually suspected that the child contracted the disease from his handler.
The question is how to identify pulmonary tuberculosis in adults?
It is definitely not easy when the person is still feeling the body healthy and still able to do their daily work. In the group of patients who display mild symptoms such as coughing only occasionally or weight tends to fall then only by chest X-ray examination that can identify the presence of spots on his lung. Obvious symptoms and can be identified at all times when our maids are coughing with chest pains. Even in more serious circumstances other than cough and chest pain also complained of shortness of breath. Moreover, if the cough accompanied by sputum even if there's blood on it should be assumed that our servants are suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. Other complaints that may arise include fever is not too high, especially at night, night sweats, weight loss and looked weak and pale.
The existence of pulmonary tuberculosis is an important thing that we need to identify in our aides are given by a close and long contact this infection can be transmitted from one person to another from adults to children. From our maid who had pulmonary tuberculosis to our children.
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Indonesia, including "the big five" as negara2 with most of the world's TB cases. The disease is transmitted from one person to another through the air. Germs are spread from person through coughing, sneezing or talking. Weighing the spread of disease is associated with the number of germs contained in a person's sputum, extent of involvement of the lungs caused by this disease, often cough a family member with this disorder. Also the closer the relationship between the patients with other family members and duration of contact with patients who have TB disease is a factor that allows the disease to move from one person to another. Therefore if our home and our immediate family there who suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis is actually a close family member other people with the potential to be infected by this disease. Especially if there is a history of never immunized as a baby then the person is at high risk for contracting the disease is tuberculosis.
TB disease can be treated, the faster the sooner treatment is known but the problem is the drug used multiple antibiotics with a minimum of 6 months of treatment time.
Other infections that we need to identify is the presence of scabies or mange is a skin infection on the sidelines, especially fingers and toes and the location of our skin is not hairy. The disease is easily transmitted from one person to another usually causes the affected skin is itchy and purulent infection. Itching caused by these infections, especially at night. The disease is transmitted by the mite Sarcoptes scabies a parasite that moves from one person to another through close contact. The disease is potentially transmitted by our maid to family members, especially our children are taken care of directly by our maid was.
In addition to issues of health problems living habits clean is also important for our servants especially those who are in charge of preparing food and drink we are good for our family members who are mature and for our children. Habit to always wash your hands well with soap after leaving the toilet / toilet or when it will cook and finish cooking. Wash hands routinely turns out has proven to cause a decline in cases of intestinal infection especially for people who regularly wash their hands. Therefore if in the first months of our family members, especially our children often have diarrhea then we must check whether the new servant we work with hygiene.
Identify a variety of infections in maid and asked to implement a healthy culture would not only bring good to us and our families but also to bring kindness to these our new servants.