Contents
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WORDS TO THE VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER
Many Things Relate to Health Care
Take a Good Look at Your Community
Using Local Resources to Meet Needs
Deciding What to Do and Where to Begin
Balance Between People and Land
Balance Between Prevention and Treatment
Sensible and Limited Use of Medicines
Finding Out What Progress Has Been Made
Teaching and Learning Together
Making the Best Use of This Book
Chapter 1 {:.chap_title}
HOME CURES AND POPULAR BELIEFS
Beliefs That Can Make People Well
Beliefs That Can Make People Sick
Witchcraft, Black Magic, and the Evil Eye
Ways to Tell Whether a Home Remedy Works or Not
Homemade Casts, for Broken Bones
Chapter 2
SICKNESSES THAT ARE OFTEN CONFUSED
Different Kinds of Sicknesses and Their Causes
Sicknesses That Are Hard to Tell Apart
Example of Local Names for Sicknesses
Misunderstanding Due to Confusion of Names
Confusion between Different Illnesses That Cause Fever
Chapter 3
HOW TO EXAMINE A SICK PERSON
Chapter 4
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A SICK PERSON
The Comfort of the Sick Person
Special Care for a Person Who Is Very Ill
Cleanliness and Changing Position in Bed
When and How to Look for Medical Help
What to Tell the Health Worker
Chapter 5
HEALING WITHOUT MEDICINES
When Water Is Better than Medicines
Chapter 6
RIGHT AND WRONG USE OF MODERN MEDICINES
Guidelines for the Use of Medicine
When Should Medicine Not Be Taken?
Misuse of Medicines: The Most Dangerous
Chapter 7
ANTIBIOTICS: WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO USE THEM
Guidelines for the Use of Antibiotics
What to Do if an Antibiotic Does Not Seem to Help
Importance of Limited Use of Antibiotics
Chapter 8
HOW TO MEASURE AND GIVE MEDICINE
Dosage Instructions for Persons Who How to Give Medicines to Small Children
Chapter 9
INSTRUCTIONS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR INJECTIONS
When to Inject and When Not To
Emergencies When It Is Important to Give Injections
Dangerous Reactions From Injecting Certain Medicines
Avoiding Serious Reactions to Penicillin
How to Prepare a Syringe for Injection
How Injections Can Disable Children
Chapter 10
FIRST AID
Basic Cleanliness and Protection
When Something Gets Stuck in the Throat
When Breathing Stops: Mouth-to-Mouth Breathing
How to Control Bleeding from a Wound
Cuts, Scrapes, and Small Wounds
Bullet, Knife, and Other Serious Wounds
Emergency Problems of the Gut (Acute Abdomen)
How to Move a Badly Injured Person
Dislocations (Bones Out of Place at a Joint)
Other Poisonous Bites and Stings
Chapter 11
NUTRITION: WHAT TO EAT TO BE HEALTHY
Sicknesses Caused by Not Eating Well
Why It Is Important to Eat Right
Eating Better When You Do Not Have Much Money or Land
Where to Get Vitamins: In Pills or in Foods?
Special Diets for Specific Health Problems
Acid Indigestion, Heartburn, and Stomach Ulcers
Goiter (A Swelling or Lump on the Throat)
Chapter 12
PREVENTION: HOW TO AVOID MANY SICKNESSES
Cleanliness, and Problems from Lack of Cleanliness
Basic Guidelines of Cleanliness
Worms and Other Intestinal Parasites
Pinworm (Threadworm, Enterobius)
Blood Flukes (Schistosomiasis, Bilharzia)
Vaccinations (lmmunizations), Simple, Sure Protection
Other Ways to Prevent Sickness and Injury
chapter 13
SOME VERY COMMON SICKNESSES
The Care of a Person with Acute Diarrhea
Arthritis (Painful, Inflamed Joints)
Swelling of the Feet and Other Parts of the Body
chapter 14
SERIOUS ILLNESSES THAT NEED SPECIAL MEDICAL ATTENTION
Tuberculosis (TB, Consumption)
Dengue (Breakbone Fever, Dandy Fever)
Brucellosis (Undulant Fever, Malta Fever)
chapter 15
SKIN PROBLEMS
General Rules for Treating Skin Problems
Instructions for Using Hot Compresses
Things That Cause Itching or Burning of the Skin
Ringworm, Tinea (Fungus Infections)
White Spots on the Face and Body
Pellagra and Other Skin Problems Due to Malnutrition
Tuberculosis of the Skin or Lymph Nodes
Ulcers of the Skin Caused by Poor Circulation
Eczema (Red Patches with Little Blisters)
chapter 16
THE EYES
How to Remove a Speck of Dirt from the Eye
Red, Painful Eyes, Different Causes
Infected Eyes in Newborn Babies (Neonatal Conjunctivitis)
Iritis (Inflammation of the Iris)
Infection of the Tear Sac (Dacryocystitis)
Scrape, Ulcer, or Scar on the Cornea
Bleeding in the White of the Eye
Bleeding Behind the Cornea (Hyphema)
Pus Behind the Cornea (Hypopyon)
Night Blindness and Xerophthalmia
Spots or ‘Floaters’ Before the Eyes
River Blindness (Onchocerciasis)
chapter 17
THE TEETH, GUMS, AND MOUTH
If You Do Not Have a Toothbrush
Pyorrhea, a Disease of the Gums
Sores or Cracks at the Corners of the Mouth
White Patches or Spots in the Mouth
chapter 18
THE URINARY SYSTEM AND THE GENITALS
Diseases Spread by Sexual Contact (Sexually Transmitted Infections, STDs)
Gonorrhea (Clap, VD, the Drip) and Chlamydia
Bubos: Bursting Lymph Nodes in the Groin
Use of a Catheter to Drain Urine
How a Woman Can Avoid Many Infections
Pain or Discomfort in a Woman’s Belly
Infertility: Men and Women Who Cannot Have Children
chapter 19
INFORMATION FOR MOTHERS AND MIDWIVES
The Menstrual Period (Monthly Bleeding in Women)
The Menopause (When Women Stop Having Periods)
How to Stay Healthy during Pregnancy
Minor Problems during Pregnancy
Check-ups during Pregnancy (Prenatal Care)
Things to Have Ready before the Birth
The Delivery of the Placenta (Afterbirth)
Medicines to Control Bleeding After Birth or Miscarriage: Oxytocin, Misoprostol, Ergometrine
The Mothers Health after Childbirth
Childbirth Fever (Infection after Giving Birth)
Lumps or Growths in the Lower Part of the Belly
Miscarriage (Spontaneous Abortion)
chapter 20
FAMILY PLANNING, HAVING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN YOU WANT
Other Methods of Family Planning
Natural Methods of Family Planning
These Methods Do Not Prevent Pregnancy
Methods for Those Who Never Want to Have More Children
chapter 21
HEALTH AND SICKNESSES OF CHILDREN
Birth Control Pills (Oral Contraceptives)
What to Do to Protect Children’s Health
Children’s Growth, and the ‘Road to Health’
Review of Children’s Health Problems Discussed in Other Chapters
Health Problems of Children Not Discussed in Other Chapters
Sore Throat and Inflamed Tonsils
Infectious Diseases of Childhood
Problems Children Are Born With
Umbilical Hernia (Belly Button that Sticks Out)
Swollen Testicle (Hydrocele or Hernia)
Mentally Slow, Deaf, or Deformed Children
Spastic Child (Cerebral Palsy)
Slow Development in the First Months of Life
chapter 22
HEALTH AND SICKNESSES OF OLDER PEOPLE
Summary of Health Problems Discussed in Other Chapters
Other Important Illnesses of Old Age
Words to Younger Persons Who Want to Stay Healthy When Older
Stroke (Apoplexy, Cerebro-Vascular Accident, CVA)
Diseases Found More Often in People over Forty
chapter 23
THE MEDICINE KIT
How to Care for Your Medicine Kit
Buying Supplies for the Medicine Kit
Words to the Village Storekeeper (or Pharmacist)
THE GREEN PAGES
THE USES, DOSAGE, AND PRECAUTIONS FOR MEDICINES
List of Medicines in the Green Pages
Index of Medicines in the Green Pages
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Special Care for Small, Early, and Underweight Babies
Blood Pressure: How to Measure
VOCABULARY, Explaining Difficult Words