8 Indonesia Most Common Disease that Haunts You

During the pandemic of Covid-19, we should be more careful towards our health condition. As the virus spreads easily without us knowing the detail of how and when we should keep healthy to avoid some disease attack our body.

Speaking of health and diseases, this time we will bring you into the most common disease that exists in Indonesia that haunts you from time to time. Most of them can attack everyone, whether children, youth, adult, and eldest. Let see some of them below!

1. Typhus

Typhus becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia with more than two million people infected per year. It is caused by bacteria that spreads easily through the food and water that you consumed.

Typhus can be prevented by the typhus vaccine and some antibiotics for long-term treatments. The common symptoms such as high fever, diarrhea, headache, and stomachache. Choosing the right balance diet from some Indonesian famous main dishes that clean and hygiene may help you to avoid the diseases.

2. Asthma

Asthma becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia with more than two million people caught it up every year. It can be attacked at many ages whether young age, adults, or elder. The symptoms can be known easily such as hard to breathe, cough, and breathing with noises.

Asthma can be treat by using the inhaler from the mild up to the strongest ones depend on the patient’s condition. Besides, it needs more intense care under the medical expert to get the proper treatment and medicine. Moreover, living in one of the Indonesian cities with the cleanest air may help for healing treatment.

3. Anemia

Anemia becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia with more than two million people get suffering from it every year. This disease can be caused by so many things such as zinc, platelets, and vitamin deficiency, and also an unhealthy diet.

The symptoms of people with anemic are commonly shown when they feel so limp, get tired easily, hard to breathe, fainted, and pale. The worst of it, they need some blood transfusion to help the body produce more zinc and other vitamins which come difficult to get from the Indonesian red cross society‘s stock.

4. Hypertension

Hypertension becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia that attacked not only the eldest but also adults. Commonly, people figured it as the blood tension that rises rapidly above 140/90 mmHg. It will get worst if the tension reaches over 180/120 mmHg which can cause some diseases such as stroke and heart attack.

Commonly, the symptom of hypertension can be easily detected by the tensimeter. Other symptoms such as headache, limp, chest pain, hard to breathe, and blood in the urine. There are so many things that cause hypertension such as genetic cause, medicines, thyroid problem, and many problems.

The treatment for someone who caught hypertension should be nursing by a medical expert. Besides, having a healthy diet also can help you to get rid of the disease.

5. Cardiac Disease

Cardiac disease becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia with more than two million cardiac disease patients as per years on record. It can be caused by some problems such as plague, blood clotting, cholesterol, and many more.

The symptoms of cardiac diseases can vary, but commonly it has shown some hard chest pain and hard to breathe. Some of the patients also feeling so limp, nausea, and throwing up.

Cardiac disease patients should be nursing by professional under medical expert. They need intense care within the medicine and proper diet to get a better condition.

6. Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia a long time ago. It attacked the lungs and was caused by some potential tuberculosis bacteria. It has a serious potential to be easily spread by air between one and another person through a cough.

Tuberculosis has so many symptoms once you get infected by the bacteria. First, you will be having a fever and be sweating a lot at midnight. Then you have a serious cough accompanied by a blood spot. It can be worst and you may be lost weight so that needs serious handling by medical experts.

People who get infectious by Tuberculosis can be with or without symptoms. Both of them need intense nursing by giving some antibiotics and Tuberculosis medication in long-term treatment.

7. Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia within more than 150 thousand people get infected per year. The condition becomes worst if the insulin in the pancreas produces less than the sugar that we need in our body.

Type 1 Diabetes commonly attack young adult, but adult and elder can be infected too. Most of them have some symptoms such as get easily starving, thirsty, urinate often, more tired than common people, and blurred vision.

Type 1 diabetes needs intense care by professionals under medical experts. A balanced diet and some exercise can help it to reduce the disease from getting worst.

8. Stroke

Stroke becomes one of the most common diseases in Indonesia with more than 150 thousand people attacked by it every year. It happened when the blood in our body failed to distribute them to our brain. The worst thing when someone gets attacked by it is paralysis through all of the body.

Patients with stroke need more intensive care under the professional of the medical experts even though some Indonesian still using some Indonesian Jamu for medicine. Commonly the treatment comes to reduce the complication so that it couldn’t be worst.

So, some of the most common diseases in Indonesia exist and haunt you from time to time. Having a good and balanced diet can help us to avoid some of the infections from those diseases. Are you ready to live healthier from now on?