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Differences Between Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease
The following point will help in finding out the major differences between the Communicable and non-communicable disease:
1. Communicable disease is referred as the acute disease, which means they progress quickly. They are contagious and most infected kind of disease, where transmission can be directly or indirectly from one person to another, or from animal to person through the air, water, food, insects, blood transmission, physical contact with the infected person, etc. While the Noncommunicable disease is referred as a chronic disease which progresses slowly and remains for a long duration in the body, they are non-contagious and caused due to long term illness, changed lifestyle, environmental factors, or can be hereditary.
2. An example of Communicable disease are Diarrhea, dysentery, flu, rabies, malaria, tuberculosis, cold, fever, cough, vomiting; Hypertension, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, muscles pain are the examples of Non-communicable disease.
3. Causative agents are bacteria, virus and parasites in Communicable disease but Non-communicable disease occurs due to change lifestyle, environment factors, uncontrolled diet, alcohol use, genetic factors, etc.
4. Wear your face mask wherever necessary, washing hands properly, avoid coming in contact with the infected person are the precautions everyone should follow to avoid catching a disease, along with that maintaining regular and healthy diet, doing regular exercise, and taking proper rest, regularly visiting doctors for the body check up will help in sustaining life smoothly without having any kind Non-communicable disease.
5. Treatment of Communicable is done through conventional methods while treatment of Non-communicable is done either through conservative methods or surgically in critical conditions.