Question

Write a note on non-communicable diseases.

Answer 1

1. Communicable diseases do not spread from person to person. They are caused by other factors.
2. Antibiotics, or medicines that fight against germs, do not help to cure non-communicable diseases.
3. Problems caused by wearing out of body parts:
   Rheumatism, heart attack, epileptic seizures, stroke, migraine headaches, Cataract, and cancer.
4. Problems caused by external harmful agents entering the body:
   Allergies, asthma, poisons, snakebite, cough from smoking, stomach ulcer, alcoholism.
5. Problems caused by a lack of trace elements in the body:
   Anaemia, pellagra, night blindness, xerophthalmia, goiter, and hypothyroidism.