BALANTIDIASIS PREVENTION

There are no immunization procedures or medications that can be taken prior to potential exposure to prevent balantidiasis. Moreover, people who have had the disease can become reinfected. Prevention requires effective personal and community hygiene. Specific safeguards include the following:

Purification of drinking water. Water can be purified by filtering, boiling, or treatment with iodine.
Proper food handling. Measures include protecting food from contamination by flies, cooking food properly, washing one's hands after using the bathroom and before cooking or eating, and avoiding foods that cannot be cooked or peeled when traveling in countries with high rates of balantidiasis.
Careful disposal of human feces.
Monitoring the contacts of balantidiasis patients. The stools of family members and sexual partners of infected persons should be tested for the presence of cysts or trophozoites.

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	BALANTIDIASIS TREATMENTS
	BALANTIDIASIS PROGNOSIS
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