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A friday ritual from Soulemama, one image, no words.

Angiostrongylus costarricensis

 

I mention before that when I found a slug on the living room it's kind of a tragedy for me, because it means that we are at risk and I have to disinfect the whole house floor.

The thing is that  there is dangerous illness that is propagated by this insects.

The main source are rats poo, and then the slug eat it and leave the larva on their trails. Different varieties form this parasite affect animals and humans, but this in particular has only be described in Costa Rica and there have been cases in Central and South America. Slugs may infect also vegetables.

The risk population are toddlers ans babies, more the boys than the girls.

When they enter the human body go into the blood and then to the intestine where they develop, cutting blood access to the tissue which eventually dies and then the patient will not be able to get any nutrients.

Surgery has been necessary in some cases and at least one baby girl died from this, she eat the whole slug. Recovery can take months of hospitalization.

Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, and pain and hardness on the right side of the belly.

  

When a case is presented in necessary to analyze the whole family, since this has helped often to identify another sick person.

A study of slog population around Costa Rica showed that 50% of this animals were infected without matter the area.

So let's be careful, doctors recommend to be super clean, wash hand often and disinfect vegetables.

Sources:
http://www.gefor.4t.com/parasitologia/angiostrongyluscostaricensis.html
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4743e/y4743e0c.ht
http://parasidiario.blogspot.com/
http://www.gowervets.co.uk/spotlight/lungworm/lungworm.html
http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0001-60022007000100013&script=sci_arttext
http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2009/febrero/01/pais1860555.html
http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S1409-14291998000200002&script=sci_arttext

Sunday

I have been planing to make some virtual sewing e-course, tutorials and patterns in Spanish to take care of all those enthusiastic crafters who want to sew but have no classes near or can't leave their house but mainly are looking at all the beautiful goodies made around the world but can't read English, so all of the free tutorial and explanations are not for them, but I'm still designing it.



Today it was windy and cold, but finally rain stops, which was great since we had all sorts of tragedies in here caused by Thomas storm pass. We went for a walk and end up in the cemetery, my son found it beautiful, even after explaining him what it is, he said, what a beautiful place, and we enjoy it.

 

{this moment}

A Soulemama tradition.

Day of the Dead

I had to sleep out for 3 nights and that made very cranky, cause I missed my home and my sewing.

On Saturday an old lady friend came by to the Farmer's Market where I work and we went fabric shopping, I got this leaves fabric, so I made this Kimono, by adapting the Weekend Sewing: More Than 40 Projects and Ideas for Inspired Stitching pattern for my size.

And finally on Monday we made our altar to celebrate the Day of the Dead, we also made the traditional Bread of the Dead (recipe soon), and eat it with chocolate, in water for me (as in the picture) and with milk for Itzcóatl.

I'm having a crisis, I don't think I'm taking motherhood, very well in this days, I need a change.

Nothing goes to waste

We have all sorts of insects that came into the house from the garden.

Among them there are four kinds if ants, and one of them looks scary, with a big jaw, like I would not like to get a bite from them.

I work on the Feria Verde de Aranjuez every week, it's a farmers market were I sell the cloth diapers, baby slings, mentrual pads, and my sewing inspiration.

There is a man who sells there a natural repelent for any kind of bugs, not for the skin but for the house,  the ingredients are mustard, garlic and hot peppers. I have wanted to buy it, but could not, so I decide to try to do it myself.


I had the ingredients already at home and so I blendes and then spray them around the house, I didn't work so well on the ants, but maybe it will with other bugs.

I din't want to trow away the leftovers so I decide to plant them, since there was complete seeds on them.


We used some cups and milk packages. And dirt from our backyard mixed with cardboard and leaves because it was so much like clay that you could make figures out of it.

So we will wait and see.

Some late night sewing