5 common diseases in the dry season

Acute bronchitis caused by viruses is erratic and accounts for more than 60% of the total number of patients admitted to Children's Hospital 2. The hot weather of the past week is a characteristic sign of complicated changes of the period. season transfer.

This is often the time when there are abnormalities in disease and the late dry season diseases for children. Doctor Tran Huu Nhon, Head of the Department of Internal Medicine synthesized 1 Children's Hospital 2 (Ho Chi Minh City), said in this weather children often suffer from the following 5 types of diseases:

1. Acute bronchitis caused by viruses:

This is the main respiratory infection in children in the past few days and is accounting for 60% of the patient's hospitalization for children 2. This infection can occur anywhere in the children's lungs.

The disease usually begins with symptoms of prolonged dry cough and progressively increases. When the child breathes out, he hears the ranan in the bronchi. A cough is usually persistent and then a mucus appears. After 7-10 days, the sputum slipped and the cough went away.

Causes: often caused by a variety of viruses, it is necessary to eliminate discrimination from whooping cough, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and asthma.

If it occurs in young children, it should exclude the congenital malformation of the airway, heterozygous .

This disease often causes complications such as inflammation of the middle ear, sinusitis, pneumonia. Therefore, children must be taken to medical facilities early for treatment. The disease is contagious and should be isolated from sick children. As a precaution, keep your child wearing a mask when walking on the street to avoid dust and smoke, give him or her a shot or take a vaccine on time.

Note to make sure children wear warm when going on the road, if you accidentally rain, you need to take your child home to dry and keep warm. Ensuring nutrition in eating, not forcing children to stay up late, avoiding contact with cigarette smoke.

Doctor Tran Huu Nhon, Head of Internal Medicine, synthesizes 1 Children's Hospital 2 (HCMC)
Medical examination for patients (Photo: TTO)

2. Viral high fever

The most common manifestation is that children are healthy, playing normally, suddenly tired of rapid development and then high fever and convulsions cause parents to panic.

Before taking the child to the hospital, parents and young foster children need to calm down to stop seizures by doing specific things such as: cleaning the body with a towel dipped in warm water lower than the body temperature at that time. hours at least 2 degrees.

Specifically, children have a fever of 39 degrees, warm water is less than 37 degrees), no injections, heavy lemon . Paracetamol suppressor tablets are needed (anal type) with a dose of 10-20mg / kg body weight inserted into the posterior young subjects.

3. Fever fever

Early symptoms are usually fever, cough, runny nose and rash. At first, the rash appears on the face, then spreads to the abdomen, arms and legs. Characteristics to distinguish the ban as a result of typhus and rash due to other causes are that it often shows smooth spots like bran, red, absolutely no mouth spots.

The board usually dives after 3 days but does not regrow and maybe several times like that.

Children with typhus often do not cause much panic for their parents, such as children who have a fever, such as a seizure, but are often late and subjective, often leading to many other consequences.

Home treatment process: Note that children should only eat allergy-prone foods such as sea fish, crabs, snails . Cleaning and cleaning for children will only be done at noon, use warm water and Quick wipe.

4. Acute diarrhea causes severe dehydration

Food and drink, especially street food, at this time are often infected by bacteria such as E.Coli, cholera bacteria . Bacteria or viruses following food into the intestines cause acute intestinal inflammation, sealing Peritoneal and absorption disorders.

The disease often starts suddenly with symptoms of diarrhea such as vomiting children, then drains swine feces, has sputum, sometimes blood or green moss, abdominal pain, fever, abdominal distention.

At the level of acute diarrhea with severe dehydration, there will be 2 of the following 4 typical signs: lethargy or lethargy, sunken eyes, thirst but cannot drink or drink very little, pinching the skin to see that the pinch is slow. In this situation, it is necessary to immediately compensate for the amount of water for the young body, if the child is unable to drink, compensate by giving intravenous infusion with the chosen solution of Lactate Ringer and urgently take the child to a medical facility for the grant assist.

5. Meningitis

The cause is caused by germs, or viruses that cause central nervous system infections. Early diagnosis must be made for early treatment, avoiding brain and nervous system damage and complications.

Clinical signs: fever, fever, headache, neck wobbly, bulging fontanel (in young children), convulsive twitching, with neurological signs.

The doctor examined the clinical examination with signs of Kerning and Brudzinski, sometimes with nerve paralysis.

How to prevent: Vaccinate children, avoid contact with children with meningitis, living - eating hygienically.

Dr. TRAN HUU NHON