Hot sunshine, many children get sick

Talking to Tuoi Tre on the morning of May 7, the deputy director of the Preventive Medicine Department (Ministry of Health) Nguyen Van Binh said that there has been no case of Japanese B encephalitis since the beginning of 2006. However, Every year is the beginning of the season of this disease.

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According to Mr. Nguyen Van Loc, deputy director of the Hospital (BV), the average in May and June every year, the Children's Hospital receives 500-600 children with hospitalized encephalitis. Most of them are infected with Japanese encephalitis virus. Mr. Loc also emphasized that in the 2005 season, there were many children with Japanese B encephalitis due to not being vaccinated.

* In the afternoon of May 7, Dr. Le Hoang Son, Director of Can Tho City Children's Hospital, said that in the past days, the weather was hot and the weather was more erratic than every year, so the number of children coming to the medical examination and treatment increased from 500 to over 600 children. Most children with viral infections, flu viruses, rashes or some mumps viruses . are common and tend to increase.

The types of diseases of digestion, hot respiratory, cough, runny nose due to weather also increased. Meanwhile, the number of children with gastrointestinal disorders due to snacking or pampering parents gives their children a drink of carbonated liquids prone to dehydration diarrhea also increases.

Still according to Dr. Son, in the past week it rained a lot on a large area, so every day from 5-10 children with dengue fever in hospital (up 5-15% over the previous month). The early rainy season shows that dengue fever will continue to increase but not exceed the cycle of the disease compared to previous years.

* The prolonged heat of the past few days in Danang has overwhelmed many pediatric departments of hospitals and district health centers. At the Department of Pediatrics in Da Nang only on 6-5, of the 30 children brought to the examination by their parents, nearly 20 children were forced to be hospitalized with symptoms such as diarrhea and viral fever.

According to Dr. Nguyen Van Tri (Hai Chau District Medical Center), many children who are sick during the hot days are due to excessive fanning, or due to bathing and water girders for too long, causing the respiratory tract to be affected. .

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