Grade 5. Local health problems

Question 1

What are the symptoms of tuberculosis! (5)

Answer 1

1. A cough that last for a long time
2. getting weaker and thinner
3. feeling tired
4. not wanting to eat
5. sweating at night

Question 2

Can tuberculosis be cured?

Answer 2

Yes it can if the symptoms of spotted early enough

Question 3

What is the treatment for TB!

Answer 3

1. go to the clinic
2. they will check under a microscope for the TB bacteria,
3. They will take an extra day of your chest.
4. They will give you tablets.

Question 4

How long do you have to take TB tablets for

Answer 4

The tablets must be taken for 6 months every day but sometimes as long as two years

Question 5

How can we prevent our selves from getting TB?

Answer 5

1. Have the BCG vaccination
2. cover your mouth when coughing
3. never spit on the floor 4. everyone in the house be tested for TB
4. the person with TB should sleep separately

Question 6

What is diarrhoea?

Answer 6

1. Stomach cramps
2. going to the toilet often
3. runny stool

Question 7

Can you die from diarrhoea?

Answer 7

Yes you can, babies become dehydrated.

Question 8

What does dehydrated mean?

Answer 8

Dehydrated means to not have enough fluid in your body for your body to work properly

Question 9

How do you know if you are dehydrated

Answer 9

Your mouth is dry and you produced very little urine

Question 10

What happens when you are VERY dehydrated

Answer 10

Your eyes are sunken you have no tears and your skin loses stretchiness

Question 11

How do we treat diarrhoea!

Answer 11

Drink lots of water and make a mixture of water, sugar and salt to replace lost fluid

Question 12

Give four examples on how to avoid health problems

Answer 12

1. Eat healthy
2. Get vaccinated
3. Keep clean cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze
4. Keep flies off food
5. Don’t eat food that is off

Question 13

What should you do if you are sick

Answer 13

Stay in bed and rest
Go to the doctor
Get medicine

Question 14

What is pasteurising

Answer 14

Pasteurizing is when you heat milk to kill the germs that cause diarrhoea

Question 15

How do we prevent malaria

Answer 15

Will use mosquito repellent and cover up beds with a net

Question 16

Give three examples of vaccines

Answer 16

1. Smallpox
2. Measles
3. Polio

Question 17

Give 5 examples of infectious diseases

Answer 17

Bilharzia 
Malaria 
Measles 
Cholera
Tuberculosus
Polio 
Typhoid

Question 18

Name four diseases that can be transmitted by air

Answer 18

1. Cold
2. Cough
3. Influenza
4. TB

Question 19

Name 4 diseases that are transmitted by water

Answer 19

1. Cholera
2. Dysentery
3. Typhoid
4. Bilharzia

Question 20

How can food transmit disease

Answer 20

1. Food washedbwitg dirty water
2. food touch with dirty hands
3. flies sitting on the food
4. food that is not stored correctly
5. food that is not cooked correctly

Question 21

What disease do mosquitoes spread

Answer 21

Yellow fever and malaria

Question 22

What disease do tsetse flies spread

Answer 22

Sleeping sickness

Question 23

What disease do fleas spread

Answer 23

Plague and Typhus

Question 24

How do flies carry disease

Answer 24

Flies have faeces on their feet and then land on the food

Question 25

What kind of disease can you catch from flies landing on your food

Answer 25

Diseases like polio, typhoid and food poisoning are spread by flies