Legionnaire’s Disease symptoms

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This disease may rarely cause infections in wounds and in other parts of the body including the heart. Old age; a history of smoking; the presence of chronic disorders like lung disease, diabetes, kidney disease or cancer; a weakened immune system; and having a job related to air conditioning systems-maintenance, are risk factors for this condition.

Liver fluke and guinea worm diseases feature among water based diseases. Controlling snail populations, filtering the water using a fine mesh cloth, so as to remove larvae, cyclops or snails will help prevent these diseases, apart from disinfecting contaminated water.

Water related diseases refer to those spread by vector organisms. Malaria, filaria and dengue fever are prominent among these. These can be prevented by destroying breeding sites of insects. Also, you should try and decrease the need to visit these sites, and use mosquito nets while sleeping at night.

Diagnostic Studies And Procedures

If Legionnaire’s disease is suspected, a chest X-ray will be taken; it may reveal fluid in one or both lungs and perhaps lung abscesses. Laboratory cultures of sputum must be done to identify the organisms that are causing the disorder. To collect the tissue samples and secretions for these studies, bronchoscopy may be used. This procedure involves passing a long, flexible viewing tube through the mouth and windpipe and into the bronchial tubes, thus enabling the doctor to study the interior of the airways as well as to collect tissue and fluid samples. Blood tests may detect antibodies to the bacterium.