Even when the soldiers were not being attacked it was still very hard to survive during World War 1. During world war 1 the disease of the trenches started going around. The soldiers had to live in trenches that were built in the ground, these holes were filled with water. The soldiers had to stand in these holes almost all day which meant they had their feet wet and cold all the time. When it was time to rest they could finally take their shoes off the only problem with this was that they might have trench foot and there was a possibility that their toes could fall off because how cold and wet their feet were. Trench foot could take up to 3-6 month to cure. Trench foot caused men in the war to not …show more content…
The trench mouth was started because they only had the water that was inside these trenches, there were rats that were in this water but the soldiers had no choice but to drink this water to survive. There were two types of rats the brown and the black rats but the brown ones were the most scariest because they could grow to be the size of cats. During the night while the soldiers were sleeping the rats would walk on their faces. One rat could make up to 900 babies a year. They would spread more infections and make the food more poisonous. Lice was a big part of the trenches. Lice caused “Trench Fever” which caused the soldiers to have really bad pain caused to have high fevers. Many men decided to shave their head completely bald to avoid this. The smell from all these diseases were really bad. Trench fever took a few months to cure if not they would die because of it. Typhoid was the most deadliest disease. Once you got this disease you had more of a chance to die because your body could not take any food or water. This disease was caused by bad hygiene and the filthiness of the trenches. Influenza took only three days for them to die after they got this disease. This disease killed over 15 million soldiers during war. The symptoms were headaches, sore