Common epidemics of summer diseases

Summer easily bursts with many dangerous diseases such as dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, diarrhea, flu, encephalitis .

Doctor Nguyen Ba Dang, Department of Preventive Medicine recommends how to avoid some common infectious diseases.

1. Dengue fever

Keep all water containers closed so that mosquitoes do not spawn.

Every week, kill the larvae by throwing fish into large water containers. Replace small and medium water containers, overturn water-free tools, change flower pots, remove salt, oil, and chemicals to throw sticks into a bowl of water and standing water.

Every week, discarded, overturned waste materials, natural water holes for mosquitoes to lay eggs such as bottles, jars, bottles, coconut shells, broken pieces, old tires, bamboo pockets, sheaths .

Sleep in the curtain, wear long-sleeved clothes for mosquito bites even during the day.

Actively coordinate with the health sector in the spraying of chemicals to prevent and control epidemics.

When having a fever, immediately go to a medical facility for medical examination and treatment. Do not arbitrarily treat at home.

2. Hand and foot and mouth

Children with limbs.(Photo: Le Phuong).

Wash your hands often with soap under running water several times a day, especially before preparing food, before eating, holding babies, after using the toilet, after changing diapers and cleaning children.

Food for children needs to ensure adequate nutrition. Eating cooked, cooked, and eating utensils must be washed before use, preferably soaked in boiling water. Use clean water in daily activities, do not feed children. Do not let children eat, suck and suck on toys. Do not allow children to share napkins, handkerchiefs, eating utensils such as unpasteurized cups, bowls, plates, spoons and toys.

Households, kindergartens and home-based childcare households should regularly clean daily surfaces and items such as toys, school supplies, door handles, stair handrails, and table tops. chairs, floors with soap or regular detergents.

Using hygienic latrines, feces, waste of children must be collected and treated properly.

Children must be monitored regularly to promptly detect, isolate, treat cases, avoid spreading diseases to other children.

Kindergartens, kindergartens, focus groups and households with children under 6 need to actively monitor their health. Sick children must be isolated for at least 10 days from the onset of illness. Do not let children show signs of illness and play with other children.

3. Diarrhea

Ensure food hygiene and safety, make cooked, drink cooked, do not drink water.

Use clean water in eating and drinking, especially in food processing.

Wash your hands often with soap and clean water before preparing food, before eating and after using the toilet.

Each family has hygienic latrines, not indiscriminately. Do not dump waste, dispose into ponds and lakes. Do not use fresh manure, untreated manure to fertilize crops.

When signs of acute diarrhea must be taken immediately to the nearest medical facility for timely treatment advice.

4. Viral encephalitis

Implement good environmental sanitation, clean houses, clean breeding facilities to limit mosquito shelter. Move the cattle shed away from home, remove the larvae.

When sleeping, you need to wear curtains, regularly use measures to dispel, kill mosquitoes. Do not let children play near the barn.

Good personal hygiene, regular hand washing with soap, food safety, cooked, cooked.

Limit contact with sick people and wear masks when taking care of patients.

Particularly for Japanese encephalitis virus, it is necessary to vaccinate fully and on schedule.

5. Flu

Ensuring personal hygiene, covering your mouth when sneezing, regularly washing your hands with soap, cleaning the nose and throat daily with salt water.

Keep your body warm, eat enough food to improve your body.

Vaccination against seasonal flu.

Limit contact with flu patients or suspected cases when not needed.

When symptoms of cough, fever, runny nose, headache, fatigue need to go to the medical facility immediately for examination and timely treatment.

6. Pinkeye

Wash your hands often with soap, use clean water. Do not raise your hands to rub your eyes, nose or mouth. Do not share personal items such as eye drops, face towels, eyeglasses, masks .

Clean eyes, nose, and throat daily with eye drops, nose drops.

Clean your eyes, nose, and throat daily with eye drops, nose drops, and common throat rinses.

Use soap or common antiseptic to disinfect patients' utensils and supplies.

Limit contact with patients or suspects with pinkeye.

Patients or suspects with pinkeye should limit contact with others. Need to be absent from school, leave work to avoid contagious people around and spread the community. Go to the medical facility to be examined and consulted, timely treatment, not self-treatment without the guidance of health workers to avoid serious complications.

7. Chickenpox

Limit contact with sick people to prevent spread.

Wash your hands often with soap, using your own household utensils.

Chickenpox cases need to be absent from school or work from 7 to 10 days from the start of detection to avoid spreading to others.

Wash your hands often with soap, use your own daily utensils, clean your nose and throat daily with physiological saline solution.

Perform cleaning of houses, schools and living things with common antiseptic solution.

Vaccinate against chickenpox for children aged 12 months.