Rainfall comes with numerous benefits, it waters our world, grow our crops
and cools the atmosphere. It will be an anomaly for rain not fall in
Warri during the raining season but we curse and puff when it rains
because it comes with it certain challenges.
One of the
challenges the rainy season bring is that it invites many pesky insects which
are harmful not just only to adults, but also our kids. Insect
bites causes swelling, irritation or lead to sickness and brings great
botheration to the parents or guardian.
I don’t
need to be a prophet to tell that the question parents are asking is how to keep their children
away from these insect especially mosquito bites?
If there’s
one thing we are sure that rain brings in this region, is mosquitoes, due to
the fact that there are many stagnant water coupled with the terrible drainage
system.
It’s an uphill
task to avoid mosquito bites, however we can repress or belittle mosquito bites
to a minimal degree by taking the following measures.
A Clean
environment can guarantee a degree of good health. To combat mosquito and other
insect bite we must first set a high standard for hygiene. In and outside the
house, Insect especially flies and mosquitoes are attracted to dirt, dampness
and filth around, so you need to maintain neatness everywhere. “Prevention anytime, anywhere, any day is
better than cure.”
It’s our
responsibility as parents or guardian that our child stays protected from
mosquitoes and insects, because they have the potentials to spread diseases
e.g. Malaria.
Apart from
clean environment, there are strong mosquitoes repellent and has no harmful
effects that can be used to prevent mosquito bites.
Below are
some very helpful ways we can use to prevent Mosquito bites during this
rainfall.
1. Check and Monitor your surroundings
Any dirt
or filth in your area will always invite insects or mosquitoes to your house. It’s
expedient we take full advantage of every Saturdays or sanitation days to
ensure a cleaner environment by having grasses cut down, refuse bin properly
covered and disposed, fix any broken pipe to avoid water leakages that can lead
to dampness that invites bacterial, insect and have our drainage cleaned and possibly
covered.
2. Ensure you bath or supervise the bathing of your
child.
As adults
we can better handle ourselves, but not our wards, this wet season can be very
funny for them, it may cause some allergies and fungal infections. It is
advised that you and your children properly bath with soap and moisturized a
minimum of once every day.
Take extra
time to wash places like genitalia, armpit, ears, neck etc. If you can, add
disinfectant to the water while bathing them.
3. Mosquito Repellents
It’s a
fine time to use insect repellent, even as they go to school and in the evening
before going to bed.
4. Lemon and Garlic
Lemon and
Garlic can also aid in the fight against mosquitoes during this raining season,
because their smell acts as repellent to insect. These items themselves are effective
mosquito repellents.
5. Clothes
Our
children are easy target for insect or mosquito attacks during the rainy season,
it is necessary we cover not only our bodies but that of our children with
light colored clothes, because research has discovered that dark colored
clothes attract mosquitoes.
6. Fans
Ensure
that the fans around where ever you and your children are working, because fans
help to keep mosquitoes at bay.
7. Cover your Food.
Proper
care and attention should be given to our foods. It is expedient that they are
properly covered at all times, because if they are not succeeding in attacking
their primary target, food items can be their secondary.
All food
items should be properly covered and fruits properly washed before eating. Uncovered
food may get infected due to flies and mosquitoes sitting all over it.
8. Close all doors and windows in the evening hours.
Usually
these insects come out in the evening hours and their entry needs to be banned
by taking the necessary measures.
Use
mosquito mesh if possible on all the windows and keep the doors closed. It is
important to check the entry of these insects into our houses.
These are
some of the measures we can apply to win the battle against insect during this
rainy season.
Insects
are one of the major dispersal of disease and they do so, during the rainy
season.
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