Common but scary & risky diseases šŸ¦ŸšŸ•·ļø

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After the rainy season, we always have a major increase of ticks on our pets. Even those who live in the house and never roam the streets get them. Those little buggers are rather fast and move in and nest also in the garage etc.

Of course they are rather easy to remove and there is medication like Frontline available to treat the animals. But then itā€™s often already too late, they have bitten and sucked blood.

And Lyme Borreliosis is a disease that can be quite dangerous for humans. So itā€˜s important to check, often esp. after walking through grasslands.



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The Aedes or tiger mosquito is very active again.

In our kompleks we recently had over 5 cases of Dengue. Finally in Europe it also gets some attention since it is moving north.

Now the fogging is (re)done and the Bu RW / Pak RTā€™s even do their rounds looking for flower pots with water etc.

I wonder what the use is with the nearby kali and kampung where obviously no action whatsoever is taken. (It seems the mosquito can access a diameter of 500 meter.)
 
When I leave the house for work, I blast every room with insect spray.
When there is nobody in the house, I can get wild and overkill. The smell is gone by the time we get home, and any insects are dead.
I do it once every week or two, usually after a bite or when I remember. We both got bites last night so I'll do a little one if we go out shopping, or a full blast on Monday when we go to work.
 
I am very concerned about the amount of pesticides used.
I try not to use any at all in my garden. These poisons take out all the good insects that are essential for life- the pollinators, the predators etc.
So, just be aware when spraying the bugs that the bees are absolutely essential to human life and without them we are done as a species.
 
I am more concerned about bed bugs. I check the bed every week.
 
I am very concerned about the amount of pesticides used.
I try not to use any at all in my garden. These poisons take out all the good insects that are essential for life- the pollinators, the predators etc.
So, just be aware when spraying the bugs that the bees are absolutely essential to human life and without them we are done as a species.

Agree. The way they handle the nests of wild bees here are very worrysome. Even our jambu generates much less fruit after flowering.

For obvious reasons Iā€™m also not a proponent of cans with aerosols.
 
They can really bite. But thereā€™s not much you can do unless you have a 8 cubic meter ceramics oven to put the mattress inā€¦.
Steam, steam and steam .. plus crossfire.
 
I am very concerned about the amount of pesticides used.
I try not to use any at all in my garden. These poisons take out all the good insects that are essential for life- the pollinators, the predators etc.
So, just be aware when spraying the bugs that the bees are absolutely essential to human life and without them we are done as a species.
Good point! I remember 30 years ago around Ubud, you could take a motorbike ride at night above Ubud to to the ricefields, and they were full of fireflies! Not any more! And then, there were thousands of butterflies everywhere! Occasionally, if you were lucky, you got to see the Kupu Kupu Barong! I mean the ones that are giant moths, or butterflies! Not anymore!
Even to this day, they still walk the resorts, and the streets, and neighborhoods, with those horrendous fogging machines, spraying some horrible poison, which everyone gets covered in, and breathes!
It's obvious, there is no educational warning system in place here! You even see them, walking the rice fields spraying some toxic chemicals, without any form of protective clothing! Thanks to the GMO rice developed by Monsanto, people get 2 or 3 crops of highly contaminated, rice a year, that is polished into white rice, with very little nutrition in it! No wonder, there is more and more obesity, and diabetes!
 
Good point! I remember 30 years ago around Ubud, you could take a motorbike ride at night above Ubud to to the ricefields, and they were full of fireflies! Not any more! And then, there were thousands of butterflies everywhere! Occasionally, if you were lucky, you got to see the Kupu Kupu Barong! I mean the ones that are giant moths, or butterflies! Not anymore!
Even to this day, they still walk the resorts, and the streets, and neighborhoods, with those horrendous fogging machines, spraying some horrible poison, which everyone gets covered in, and breathes!
It's obvious, there is no educational warning system in place here! You even see them, walking the rice fields spraying some toxic chemicals, without any form of protective clothing! Thanks to the GMO rice developed by Monsanto, people get 2 or 3 crops of highly contaminated, rice a year, that is polished into white rice, with very little nutrition in it! No wonder, there is more and more obesity, and diabetes!
I just can't believe how they handle pesticides here. Fogging everything and even going in and out of houses. No resperators, no eye protection, no protective clothing. Others walking with them all in a cloud of poisonous fog.

We always keep an eye out for anything like fogging. We have a Avery and as we all know, they wouldn't care. Fogging really isn't designed for door to door pesticide applications. More for large areas where one uses the wind direction to aid the application. There and in industry with large warehouses or equipment. Not food service.
 
I just can't believe how they handle pesticides here. Fogging everything and even going in and out of houses. No resperators, no eye protection, no protective clothing. Others walking with them all in a cloud of poisonous fog.

We always keep an eye out for anything like fogging. We have a Avery and as we all know, they wouldn't care. Fogging really isn't designed for door to door pesticide applications. More for large areas where one uses the wind direction to aid the application. There and in industry with large warehouses or equipment. Not food service.
Well said! The part about the people walking in the cloud of fog, is because they are uneducated about the toxicity of what is happening! I see an advertisement on television, with a cute young boy, telling his mom to do something about the mosquitoes, so she pulls out a big spray bottle of poison and just sprays away with a smile! It's the same with people burning those toxic coils in their rooms to get rid of mosquitoes! All the while breathing the same toxic poisons!
This all due to lack of proper education on using more healthy alternatives, and huge money spent in advertising!
 
Now this must be @fastpitch17 ā€™s worst nightmare:

Of course, you could get Lyme disease after a tick bite. But you are also at risk of the so called alpha-gal syndrome, by which you become allergic to meat.
'First symptoms appear after 2 to 10 hours'
'Even inhaling the smoke when baking meat can lead to symptoms.'
 
Now this must be @fastpitch17 ā€™s worst nightmare:

Of course, you could get Lyme disease after a tick bite. But you are also at risk of the so called alpha-gal syndrome, by which you become allergic to meat.
'First symptoms appear after 2 to 10 hours'
'Even inhaling the smoke when baking meat can lead to symptoms.'
Yeah, that would suck. As for ticks, I am not one to roam into a jungle. I do check legs when in the yard for anything. I have to admit that I have never seen a tick here. Seems there are plenty but maybe they just don't my areas. My wife's gardening has caused others to call our yard a mini jungle but still, have not come across anything dangerous. Plant eating caterpillars yes.
 
Not sure if that falls under risky disease but I just went down with a nasty case of Singapore flu.

I went from feeling completely normal in the morning doing my walk around the compound to stuck in bed, with fever and bad body aches in less than 12 hours.

After that first horrible night, barely able to stand up under my own strength, I went to hospital to get checked for dengue. Negative, but the doc noticed the sores in my throat and attributed it as the cause of the fever.

Following day, I wake up with sores and blisters all over my hands and feet as well. Fever going down a bit, feeling not as bad as the first night but still exhausted. Went back to the clinic and Singapore flu diagnostic is confirmed.

Now it's the 4th day, sores are getting worse. Difficult to eat and drink. Walking is painful due to sores under my feet. Even holding anything with my hands hurt.

All meds I'm given offer little to no relief.

I think the big danger from this stuff is in the opening days. That first night I was so weak, I failed to drink enough and was badly dehydrated. Lucky I wasn't alone, so I could go to hospital and get intravenous fluids. Otherwise, I would have drifted in and out of sleep, sweating buckets and not replacing fluids due to weakness. A vicious circle that can lead to death in less than 48 hours.
 
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Not sure if that falls under risky disease but I just went down with a nasty case of Singapore flu.

I went from feeling completely normal in the morning doing my walk around the compound to stuck in bed, with fever and bad body aches in less than 12 hours.

After that first horrible night, barely able to stand up under my own strength, I went to hospital to get checked for dengue. Negative, but the doc noticed the sores in my throat and attributed it as the cause of the fever.

Following day, I wake up with sores and blisters all over my hands and feet as well. Fever going down a bit, feeling not as bad as the first night but still exhausted. Went back to the clinic and Singapore flu diagnostic is confirmed.

Now it's the 4th day, sores are getting worse. Difficult to eat and drink. Walking is painful due to sores under my feet. Even holding anything with my hands hurt.

All meds I'm given offer little to no relief.

I think the big danger from this stuff is in the opening days. That first night I was so weak, I failed to drink enough and was badly dehydrated. Lucky I wasn't alone, so I could go to hospital and get intravenous fluids. Otherwise, I would have drifted in and out of sleep, sweating buckets and not replacing fluids due to weakness. A vicious circle that can lead to death in less than 48 hours.
Get well soon - a bunch of my mates have had this recently in Jakarta (all linked to school aged children - must spread very easily in schools). I had no idea it was called singapore flu! I bet the singaporeans don't like that.
 
Not sure why it is being referred to as Singapore Flu, but it is normally called Hand Foot and Mouth disease and the schools send out warning letters about it each year.
 
I think they officially call it PTKM over here. Wasnā€™t there a huge outbreak in China like 15 years ago? Quite many kids passed away. Or was that Bird Flu? šŸ¤”

Get better soon El_G!
 
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I think they officially call it PTKM over here. Wasnā€™t there a huge outbreak in China like 15 years ago? Quite many kids passed away. Or was that Bird Flu? šŸ¤”

Get better soon El_G!
At a rough guess that would be Penyakit Tangan Kaki Mulut
 

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