Sigomere Warnings Or Dangers

It can't be repeated often enough. This is a high HIV area. You can get the exact figures of infected people from the Sigomre Health Centre by asking the staff. Please don't think for one minute that the diseases listed don't apply to you. They do. Remember Kingafreespirit VTer who died of cerebral malaria because she didn't take the antimalarials?

Don't assist in an accident where obvious blood is present unless you have brought gloves and a mask with you.

Don't dress open wounds or try to stitch them if you don't have gloves and a mask.

Don't have any kind of sex with anyone. If you don't get infected with HIV, many people have TB, syphilis, gonorrhea, gut infections and worms. If you must, bring your own condoms as most here are sub standard and likely to break.

Take your anti-malarials every day and sleep under an insecticide treated bed net. This is a high malaria area. Continue to take your meds after you have got home as prescribed by your doctor.

Make sure all your injections are up to date as yellow fever, dengue fever and rabies are common here.

Treat any kind of scratch, cut or skin break seriously. Clean it with potassium permanganate and keep it covered with a clean dressing. Take a course of heavy duty antibiotics with you from your own doctor. Pills in Kenya can be out of date or of questionable quality.

Don't drink the water unless it comes in a sealed water bottle. Wash with only heated water as this kills the bugs in the rain water. Don't jump in the river.

Despite having dressed the wounds of a man with leprosy, this is one disease you are very unlikely to catch. You need to be bitten by a flea that has the lepra bacteria.