Paani ubaal kar peena (barsaat me)
Boiling drinking water in the monsoon
Barsaat me nalke ka paani ubaal kar, thanda karke, dhake huye bartan me rakh kar peene ka purana ghar ka niyam. Ismein parampara aur research dono ek hi baat kehte hain.
Kya chahiye
- nalke ya handpump ka paani
- dhakkan wala saaf bartan
- saaf sooti kapda (gandla paani chhanne ke liye)
Kaise banate hain
Agar paani gandla ho to pehle saaf sooti kapde se chhaan lein. Phir bartan me tez aanch par rakh kar poora ubaal (rolling boil) aane dein - yani jab paani achhe se khaulne lage, sirf bhaap uthna kaafi nahi. WHO ka technical brief kehta hai ki rolling boil tak garam karna bacteria, virus aur protozoa ko nishkriya karne ke liye paryapt hai. Aanch band kar ke dhak dein aur apne aap thanda hone dein. Thanda paani saaf, dhakkan wale bartan me bharein aur nikalne ke liye lambe handle wala mag rakhein - haath andar mat daalein. Roz naya paani ubaalein. Bachchon ke saamne khaulta bartan farsh par ya kinare par na rakhein - barsaat me jitne dast ke maamle aate hain, utne hi jale hue bachche bhi. Aur agar dast lag chuka hai to sirf ubla paani kaafi nahi: chemist se ORS ka packet lein aur packet par likhe hisaab se poore ek litre (ya jitna likha ho) ubaale-thande paani me ghol kar dein. Ghar par andaaze se namak-cheeni ka ghol banana khatarnak hai - bachche me zyada namak wala ghol nuksaan karta hai.
If the water looks cloudy, strain it first through a clean cotton cloth. Then heat it in a covered vessel until it reaches a full rolling boil - properly bubbling, not merely steaming. WHO's technical brief says heating to a rolling boil is enough to inactivate the bacteria, viruses and protozoa that cause illness. Switch off the flame, keep it covered and let it cool on its own. Store the cooled water in a clean container with a lid and draw it out with a long-handled mug rather than dipping hands in. Boil a fresh lot each day. Keep the hot vessel off the floor and away from edges where children reach - the monsoon brings scald injuries as reliably as it brings diarrhoea. And if diarrhoea has already started, boiled water alone is not enough: get an ORS sachet from the chemist and dissolve the whole sachet in exactly the volume of cooled boiled water printed on it. Mixing salt and sugar by eye at home is dangerous - too much salt in the mix harms a child.
Parampara kya kehti hai
Barsaat aate hi ghar ke bade kehte hain - ab paani ubaal kar peena. Maana jata hai ki barsaat me paani kharab ho jata hai aur ubalne se peeliya, typhoid, haiza aur dast se bachav ho jata hai. Kai gharon me yeh niyam June se September tak chalta hai. Yahan parampara ne wahi baat pakdi jo baad me research ne bhi kahi - halanki ghar me ise sirf riwaaj ki tarah nibhaya jata raha.
As soon as the rains start, the elders in the house say it: boil your drinking water now. The belief is that monsoon water goes bad and that boiling keeps jaundice, typhoid, cholera and loose motions away. In many homes the rule runs from June to September. Here tradition landed on the same thing research later confirmed, though it was kept up purely as custom.
Shodh kya kehti hai
Shodh isse maanti hai
WHO ka 'Boil water' technical brief saaf kehta hai ki paani ko rolling boil tak garam karna rogjanak bacteria, virus aur protozoa ko nishkriya karne ke liye paryapt hai. WHO ki drinking-water fact sheet ke mutabik doosht peene ka paani har saal karib 5,05,000 dast se hone wali mauton ki wajah banta hai. Cochrane ka 2015 review (55 studies, 84,000 se zyada log) batata hai ki ghar par paani sudharne se dast kam hote hain - filter se karib 50%, chlorine se karib 23%. Imaandari se ek kami: us review me ubalne ka apna alag aankda nahi diya gaya, aur 80% se zyada studies me blinding nahi thi. Ubalne se rasayan, jaise arsenic, fluoride ya lead, nahi hatte - balki paani bhaap banne se inki matra thodi badh jati hai.
WHO's 'Boil water' technical brief states that heating water to a rolling boil is sufficient to inactivate pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa. WHO's drinking-water fact sheet estimates that contaminated drinking water causes about 505,000 diarrhoeal deaths a year. The 2015 Cochrane review - 55 studies, over 84,000 people - found that improving water quality in the home lowers diarrhoea: filters by roughly 50%, chlorine products by roughly 23%. One honest gap: that review gave no separate figure for boiling itself, and over 80% of its studies were unblinded. Boiling also does nothing about chemical contamination such as arsenic, fluoride or lead - it slightly concentrates them as water evaporates.
Kab nuskha chhodkar doctor ke paas
- dast ya ulti me khoon ya aam (mucus) aana
- chawal ke paani jaisa patla dast ek din me 6 baar se zyada
- 2 din se zyada dast ke saath 101 F (38.3 C) se upar bukhar
- 8 ghante se peshab na aana, aankhein dhansi hui, rone par aansu na aana, ya shishu ka talu dhansa hua
- aankhein ya twacha peeli pad jana, ya peshab gaadha bhura hona
- bachcha sust ho, aasani se jaage nahi, ya paani-ORS bhi na le
3 sources
- WHO - Boil water (technical brief)primary
Boil water
- WHO - Drinking-water fact sheetprimary
Drinking-water
- Cochrane - Interventions to improve water quality and prevent diarrhoeaprimary
Interventions to improve water quality and prevent diarrhoea | Cochrane