Fictitious Cold Drinks Responsible For Seasonal Diseases: Dr Salma

The sale of fictitious cold drinks being prepared in poor hygienic conditions is one of the major causes for seasonal diseases among children during summer.

HYDERABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Jun, 2018 ) :The sale of fictitious cold drinks being prepared in poor hygienic conditions is one of the major causes for seasonal diseases among children during summer.

Eminent paediatrician Dr Salma Shaikh stated this while talking to APP here on Friday. She said the situation aggravates during every summer as hot weather forces people to take drinks� which they would have not risked in other seasons.

She said one can find numerous stalls of such drinks in streets, outside schools and colleges, hospitals as well as bus terminals, bazaars, shopping centres and other public places and most of the poor get attracted towards these drinks due to their lower prices.

She warned that fictitious and substandard drinks may cause diseases like typhoid� hepatitis� diarrhea� different kinds of infections and tonsillitis.

The ratio of these diseases increased to around 60 percent in summer because of unhygienic food and drinks, she claimed.

A survey revealed the fact that many vendors are selling juices of stale oranges at low prices particularly near the railway stations, bus and van stands, she said.

Majority of the juice vendors do not observe any safety standards while washing their utensils in which they serve juices to their customers. Moreover, drinks are sometimes sold in reused bottles that are not cleaned properly.

She advised the people to avoid taking such fictitious drinks from roadside stalls and suggested to use only boiled filtered or mineral drinking water.