Tag: hygiene - a key to healthy life
Questions Related to hygiene - a key to healthy life
The best way to prevent gum disease is to
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Use a fluoride toothpaste
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Remove plaque
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Use whitening toothpaste
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None of the above
- Gum disease, also known as periodontal disease, is a bacterial infection involving the gums and sometimes the bone that surrounds a tooth.
- Gum diseases can affect one tooth or many teeth, and they range from gum irritation (gingivitis) to severe infection (periodontitis). Gum infection is prevented by:
- Brushing twice a day. Brush your teeth with a fluoride toothpaste such as any of the Crest Gum Detoxify toothpaste twice a day.
- Use an anti-gingivitis mouthwash which kills the bacteria that causes plaque. Hence, The best way to prevent gum disease is to Use a fluoride toothpaste.
Effects of large particle, would be mild, after trapping into:
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The nose
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The lungs
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The respiratory track
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The mouth
Which one of the following is a long term effect of a healthy and active lifestyle?
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Blood flow slows down
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Stroke volume increases
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Healthy heart rate is maintained
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Muscles grow loose
Exercise is very important for ones body, daily exercising with a balanced diet helps keep our heart and body strong, fit and healthy. Our circulatory system and all other body systems are also very active thus, chances of stroke decreases, muscles grow strong and heart rate increases.
Mosquito breeding occurs in
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Stagnant water.
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Sea.
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River.
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All of the above.
The lifespan of housefly is upto
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30 days
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3 weeks
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3 days
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All of the above
Houseflies live for up to 3 weeks and are active during the warmer part of the year. An adult female deposits 50 to 100 eggs at a time and about 500 eggs over her lifetime. The eggs are deposited in rotting organic matter. They hatch after about 12 hours and the larvae, or maggots, feed on the rotting organic material. A maggot passes through three larval stages and then forms a pupa, or cocoon. The adult fly emerges from the cocoon. Houseflies typically develop from egg to adult within 10 days.
The most common carrier of communicable diseases is
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Ant
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Housefly
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Dragonfly
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Spider
The diseases, which spread from one person to another person or from animal to person are called as communicable diseases. It is also termed as infectious or contagious diseases. Housefly is a major factor in contributing communicable diseases. Housefly comes in contact with waste products and eatables. When it flies from wastes to eatables, it transports bacterial agents from wastes to eatables. Due to consumption of such eatables, the persons infected with microbes of various diseases, person gets sick.
Which of the following is the most common carrier of pathogens?
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Bees
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Mosquito
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Housefly
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None of the above
House flies are the vectors of several infectious agents. The pathogen may attach with flies when they sit on the waste materials. They cause typhoid, cholera, salmonellosis, dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, and parasitic worms carried to human food on the fly’s body parts or in its regurgitations or defecations.
One of the first measures taken to control houseflies is
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The use of aerosols.
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Maintaining sanitation.
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Setting up fly traps.
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The use of insecticides.
The life cycle of the common housefly follows which pathway?
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Egg $\rightarrow $ Pupa $\rightarrow $ Larva $\rightarrow $ Adult fly
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Egg $\rightarrow $ Adult fly $\rightarrow $ Larva $\rightarrow $ Pupa
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Egg $\rightarrow $ Larva stage 1 $\rightarrow $ Larva stage 2 $\rightarrow $ Adult fly
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Egg $\rightarrow $ Larva $\rightarrow $ Pupa $\rightarrow $ Adult fly
The housefly also acts as a ___________.
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Nutritional source for humans
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Predators
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Scavengers
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All of the above
House Flies are generally, found feeding and breeding on trash and rotten food where they get attached to several pathogens which is further transmitted by these flies to a healthy host. As houseflies and their larvae feed, on dead remains of plants and animals. So, they act as a scavenger.