Prevention is best

accomplished by eliminating the

water-dwelling snails that are
the natural reservoir of the
disease. Acrolein, copper
sulfate, and niclosamide can be
Our lady of Fatima used for this purpose. Recent
university studies have suggested that
College of Nursing snail populations can be
controlled by the introduction or
augmentation of existing
Schistosomiasis
crayfish populations; as with all
ecological interventions,
Schistosomiaisis is a disease however, this technique must be
caused by parasitic worms. You approached with caution.
become infected when your skin
comes in contact with b. Prevention through good
contaminated freshwater in which design
certain types of snails that carry
schistosomes are living. For many years from the
Schistosomiasis is not found in the 1950s onwards, civil engineers
United States, but more than 200 built vast dam and irrigation
million people are infected schemes, oblivious to the fact
worldwide. that they would cause a massive
rise in water-borne infections
Transmission from schistosomiasis. The
detailed specifications laid out
in various UN documents since
the 1950s could have minimised
this problem. Irrigation schemes
can be designed to make it hard
for the snails to colonize the
water, and to reduce the contact
with the local population.

This has been cited as a

classic case of the Relevance
paradox because guidelines on
how to design these schemes to
minimise the spread of the
disease had been published
years before, but the designers
Infectious Agent were blissfully unaware of them
– Schistosoma Japonicum
– Schistosoma Haematobium Programs of the DOH
– Schistosoma Mansoni
Morbidity Control : Mass Treatment
Signs and Symptoms and Selective treatment
– Diarrhea • Health technology transfer on
– Bloody stool the management of
– Enlargement of the Abdomen schistosomiasis, disease &
– Spleenomegaly vector surveillance to local
– Weakness health personnel
– Anemia • Strengthening of referral
– Inflamed Liver system in strategic areas
• Technical Assistance to all
Treatment stakeholders in trainings,
projects development and
a. Eliminating or avoiding research
the snails
• Advocacy / health promotions
thru tri- media
• Social mobilization /
community organization
• Forging partnerships with
Local Government Units,
Non-Government
Organizations, Private
Organizations- Farmers
Organizations, Irrigators
associations, BHWs
organizations
• Networking / Linkaging and
Collaboration with the
Academe ,National Gov’t
Agencies-Agriculture,
National Irrigations
Administration,BAI,DepED,DP
WH,DENR,LGUs
• Snail control through
environmental modifications
• Surveillance of cases and
snail vectors
• Resource generation through
foreign assisted projects /
public investment packages
• Policy and human resource
development
• Health Impact Assessment of
pipeline and existing water
development projects
• Quality Assurance/Quality
Control