Children often encounter Winter-Spring season and preventive methods

The common diseases of children in the Winter-Spring season are often respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal tract, . due to poor immunity, plus cold weather, drizzle, high air humidity. Let's take a look at how to prevent the winter-spring epidemic through the following article.

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'Attendance' of common child illnesses in spring and winter and how to prevent it:

Respiratory tract infections

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), acute respiratory infections in children are the most common disease . According to the annual report, about 4 million children under 5 years of age die from acute respiratory infections, mainly due to pneumonia.

The most common respiratory diseases in children in the Winter-Spring season are exudative rhinitis, acute pharyngitis, acute inflammation (Vegetation Adenoide), acute tonsillitis or pus, sinusitis . Common symptoms are fever , runny nose, stuffy nose, cough, lots of phlegm .

If those millions of eggs are not treated promptly and are at risk for asthma, it is detrimental to the child's health, such as breathing difficulties, limiting eating or breastfeeding, and sometimes causing serious sepsis. life-threatening.

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Acute respiratory infections in children are the most common disease of winter spring.(Illustration)

Therefore, prevention for children is a very important thing; You need to wear warm enough when going on the road, provide adequate nutrients to enhance resistance for children, avoid places with coal gas, dust, cigarette smoke, .

For children with the above symptoms, can be treated with natural herbs: lemon basil leaves, bone leaves, mint, lemon, kumquat, .

Diarrhea

There are 2 types of common diarrhea and acute diarrhea.

Acute diarrhea can be caused by bacteria, caused by fungi, parasites or intestinal virus groups, especially Rota virus.

Diarrhea caused by Rota virus can occur year-round but most often is Winter-Spring season. Common disease in children under 2 years old, easy to cause epidemics, if not detected and handled promptly can be dangerous for young children.

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Diarrhea is a common disease in children during the winter-spring season.(Illustration)

The main reason is due to eating contaminated food, cold or not warm enough food . leading to abdominal distention, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea in children.

For the above symptoms can be treated with patchouli leaves, perilla leaves, guava leaves . Give the child enough amount and quality as well as eat fruits with lots of vitamin C. Especially, should not be given to babies Eat foods that are fishy and cold, and keep children warm, especially in the abdomen.

Chicken pot

Chickenpox is a systemic disease caused by varicella zoster virus. The disease is common in young children under 5 years old and often breaks out during the winter-spring season.

Symptoms of the disease: fever, tiny blisters on the face (parents are often confused with typhus).

The disease is dangerous and very contagious, so parents should take effective precautions.

The effective and safe way to prevent chickenpox is to vaccinate children at least one month before the epidemic, because chickenpox vaccine takes 2-3 weeks to work.

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Vaccination is the best way to prevent chickenpox during the winter-spring delivery period.(Illustration)

In addition, parents need to prevent disease for themselves to avoid becoming an intermediate source of infection for their children. Implementing the principle is: do not hug, hold, or babysit children when going back to work but have not changed; do not allow children to eat when they have not cleaned their hands and feet, . Keep the living environment clean and airy.

In addition, some winter-spring diseases of children are also easy to occur and relapse many times such as eczema (also known as Eczema), hives . These are diseases that cause many "troublesome" ' For children like itching, irritability or fussing and scratching the itch very much cause bleeding, very susceptible to skin infections.

Parents need to clean children, take children to medical facilities for medical examination.

Allergic rhinitis

In spring, pollen disperses quite a lot in the air, causing itching, sneezing, continuous nasal discharge, nasal congestion in children. Especially with allergy-affected children, avoid places where flowers are grown. When a child inhales pollen, it is necessary to first use small amounts of sterile brine to clean up pollen. After that, you need to go to a doctor to get the right medicine.

Corneal inflammation

The most common cause of keratitis is in the spring. When corneal inflammation, children will feel afraid of light, often tearing or pain and redness. In young eyes, tiny blisters appear in clusters. Corneal inflammation is a serious disease so in the spring, mothers should pay attention to the child wearing dust shields and avoiding crowded places.