some important diseases to know

1. Diseases and Health Problems
How to Prevent Them

2. Pulmonary Fibrosis

3. Chest x-ray
normalPulmonary fibrosis

4. My father died of pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer.
He never smoked. My grandmother and two people in
her family also died from it.

5. Clubbed fingers- not enough oxygen

6. Kuru disease
Kuru disease is caused by
cannibalism.
When people eat other
people’s brains, a bad
protein destroys their
brain and they die.
This kind of disease is now
a very dangerous thing for
cows and deer.

7. Medicine overdose
• READ THE INSTRUCTIONS on any medicine
you take. Taking too much can be very
dangerous.
Taking too much
paracetamol can damage
your liver, or even kill you.

8. cancer
What is cancer?
Cells do not die
when they should,
and new cells are
made that are not
needed.

9. • Cancer is the second leading cause of death in
America.
• The most common cancers are skin, lung,
breast, colorectal, prostate and stomach.

10. Tumors เนื้องอก: benign or malignant?

11. How to Prevent Cancer
• Eat lots of vegetables and healthy foods.
• Healthy foods have antioxidants, which can
help prevent cancer.
• Exercise and try not to have stress.

12. Chemotherapy (chemo)
Chemotherapy uses radiation การแผ่รังสี to try to kill
the cancer.
Sometimes it works, but it is often bad for your
body and makes other problems like hair falling
out.

13. Cancer surgery
Surgery can take out the tumor, but it is difficult
to get out 100% of the cancer, and it can grow
back.

14. Men should have a prostate exam
around age 45 to check for prostate
cancer.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in
men.

15. Don’t eat burned food
Burned food can cause stomach cancer.

16. Don’t eat food with formaldehyde or
formalin

17. Diabetes โรคเบาหวาน
• If your body cannot control it’s blood sugar,
you may have diabetes.
The liver and the
pancreas control
blood sugar.

18. Diabetes can destroy your feet

19. Type 1 diabetes
Type one diabetes:
Insulin shots
This has no cure, and
usually starts when
someone is a child.
The pancreas cannot make
insulin, so people with this
disease must be careful
about their blood sugar.

20. Type 2 diabetes
• Is usually caused by eating unhealthy foods
and being fat.

21. Symptoms of Diabetes
• Urinating often
• Feeling very thirsty
• Feeling very hungry - even though you are eating
• Extreme fatigue
• Blurry vision
• Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal
• Weight loss - even though you are eating more

22. How to Prevent type 2 Diabetes
Don’t let yourself get very fat.

23. GERD
The stomach acid comes up out of your stomach.
It can cause heartburn and pain.

24. bunions
Wearing high heels, or shoes that don’t fit, can
damage your feet. You may need surgery!

25. Heart and arterial
disease

26. Healthy heart vs. damaged heart

27. stroke

28. nearsighted
Can see things that are
close clearly, but far
away things are not
clear.
Up to 90% of asian
schoolchildren are
nearsighted!
Your eyes need sunlight.

29. farsighted
Some people can see
far away things
clearly, but things
that are close are not
clear. Reading is
difficult.
Most older people
are somewhat
farsighted.

30. Hearing loss
Going fast on a
motorcycle for a long
time can cause
hearing loss.

31. Protect your hearing- Wear earplugs

32. vaccines
Babies in their first
year of life need
vaccines to protect
them from
diseases like
tuberculosis and
measles.
You can help babies in your family get
vaccinated.

33. rabies
Rabies is a virus that
effects the brain, and will
kill if not treated.
If you are bit by an
animal, especially one
that seems sick, you
should go to the doctor.
In America, bats often
have rabies.
Rabies makes you fear
water.

34. bedbugs
They come out at night and drink your
blood. They are vampires!
You can kill them by heating your
mattress.
“Good night,
sleep tight, don’t
let the bedbugs
bite.”

35. asthma
An inhalerAbout 300 million people in the
world have asthma. It is becoming
more common. It kills many
people.

36. What causes an asthma attack?
• Perfume
• Stress
• Allergies
• Exercise
• Smoke
• Air pollution

37. Allergies
Allergies are usually caused by pollen เรณู in the air.
Your body thinks the pollen is harmful, even if it is
not, so your immune system does things to fight it.

38. Hives อาการ โรค ลมพิษ
Hives are a rash ผื่นคัน
on the skin.
It can be caused by
allergies, infections,
sun, stress, or
pressure on the body
from sitting.

39. Common food allergies
• Peanuts
• Tree nuts
• Milk
• Egg
• Wheat
• Soy
• Fish
• shellfish

40. Lactose intolerance
About 90% of
asian adults have
trouble digesting
dairy products.
Symptoms:
Bloating อลึ่งฉึ่ง
Cramps การ ปวด ช่อง
ท้อง
Diarrhea
Painful gas
Nausea ความเกลียด
ชัง

41. Dengue fever
Dengue is common in Thailand.
It is not usually fatal.
We can help prevent it by not leaving water
standing for mosquitoes to lay eggs in.

42. malaria
• They are now developing a vaccine for
malaria, but it is difficult to make.

43. Sickle cell anemia
Sickle cells prevent
malaria, but make other
health problems.

44. The Ebola Virus
10,000 people have
gotten ebola this
year.

45. Quarantine การกักด่าน
A quarantine area or
person is separated
from other areas or
people to stop a
disease from
spreading.

46. Infection of a wound
If you don’t clean a
wound, it can get
infected and be
dangerous.
You may have to use
antibiotics to kill the
bacteria.
Pus (the green stuff)

47. Don’t leave your baby or pet in a hot
car!
They could get heat stroke
and die.
You could go to jail.

48. sunburn
Skin peeling off
Bad sunburn can
cause skin cancer.
We should use
sunblock when we
go out in the sun for
a long time.
Sunblock cream

49. Constipation: When you can’t poop.
Pooping is good for you!
Fruits and vegetables and fiber
will help you.
Drink a lot of water.
When you need to poop, don’t
hold back!
You may get constipated when
you travel.

50. diarrhea
Diarrhea often happens
when people travel.
It can happen because of
a food intolerance.
It could be inflammatory
bowel disease.

51. Refrigerate your food!
Food will get rotten if
you don’t refrigerate
it.
Rotten ham

52. salmonella
Symptoms: diarrhea, vomiting, fever
How to prevent:
1.Don’t let raw meat juices touch other food.
2.Cook food thoroughly

53. Common cold vs. the flu

54. autism
Autism is a mental illness.
Autistic children have
trouble communicating
and understanding other
people’s feelings.

55. Down syndrome
1 out of 1000 babies
have this.
It is a genetic
disorder.
People with down
syndrome have a low
IQ.

56. blindness
Many blind people have a
seeing eye dog and a cane. Blind people read
braille with their
fingers.

57. headache
Everyone gets
headaches. They have
many causes.
Migraine headaches are
the worst kind.
You can take aspirin or a
pain reliever to help.

58. bruise
A bruise happens
when blood
vessels break and
leak blood into
the skin.

59. scoliosis
Scoliosis is when the
spine is crooked.

60. Alzheimers disease
• Alzheimers destroys the brain, and especially
the memory.
• There is no cure.