A doctor has suggested a person to eat daily the green leafy vegetables, amla and jaggery (Gur) along with medicines. This person must be patient who is suffering from 

A doctor has suggested a person to eat daily the green leafy vegetables, amla and jaggery (Gur) along with medicines. This person must be patient who is suffering from  Correct Answer Anaemia 

Concept:

  • Proper food and diet are necessary for fast recovery from any diseases.
  • A doctor advises different types of food during different diseases.

Explanation:

Diseases and their treatment:

Disease

Treatment

Fever

  • Fever means increased body temperature.
  • Taking paracetamol.
  • Taking proper rest and food.

Typhoid

  • It spreads through contaminated food or water.
  • It can also spread due to poor hygienic conditions.
  • People with typhoid get a high fever, loss of appetite and diarrhoea.
  • Taking antibiotics and drinking lots of water.

Malaria

  • Malaria spreads only by the disease-carrying mosquitoes.
  • A blood test is done to check if a person has malaria or not.
  • People with malaria get a fever with chills and rigours.
  • In early times, the dried and powdered bark of the Cinchona tree was used to make a medicine for malaria.
  • Earlier people used to boil the bark powder and strain the water which was given to patients.
  • Now tablets are made from this.

Anaemia 

  • Anaemia means having less ‘haemoglobin’ or iron in the blood.
  • Medicines are taken for strength.
  • People should eat jaggery, amla and green leafy vegetables because these have iron.

Thus, this patient must be suffering from Anaemia.

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