How hot is the season, how is the disease prevention for children?

Summer is the time of outbreaks of dangerous diseases such as diarrhea, dengue, chickenpox . in young children. Parents pay attention to measures to prevent summer illnesses for young children to protect their health.

In summer, usually about 60% of children have bronchitis (upper respiratory infection, lower respiratory), high fever due to viral seizures, typhus, diarrhea. The most dangerous is meningitis. Especially, in the hot season, alternating with rain increases the density of mosquitoes, easily causing dengue fever.

Prevention measures

1. Good implementation of food hygiene and safety

In order to prevent summer illness, we have to do a good job of cleaning the living place, eating and drinking boiled water, good food hygiene and safety in general, especially food safety in the summer is the best way. to prevent gastrointestinal disorders, prevention of intestinal infectious diseases, including a significant proportion of encephalitis that is responsible for intestinal viruses (such as Enterovirus, ECHO, Coxackie .).

In addition, to prevent children from diarrhea, parents should pay attention to hygiene for children, if children have diarrhea, they should make up for water. In addition to the cool water due to the hot sun above, it is recommended to rehydrate the child by giving more water with oresol phase (with instructions for use available on the package).

2. Clean the body

Bathe daily to avoid itching, discomfort from dust, stagnant sweat, especially children; The ability to change clothes when wet or sweaty is the most active children to avoid colds, impetigo, fungal infections; also do not let children scratch or "kill" chrome (miscarriage) to avoid skin damage and skin infections.

Clean body hygiene helps prevent summer diseases very effectively.(Illustration).

Avoid playing with soil and sand. Do not lie down after taking a bath; Don't suddenly come out - go to the air-conditioned room to avoid a cold.

In addition to hygiene for children, parents need to regularly check closed skin areas, especially when children show signs of itching to detect and treat skin diseases early.

3. Take the child to vaccination in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Health

The most effective preventive measure is the Japanese encephalitis vaccine to create active immunity. The vaccination procedure needs 3 doses: 2 heads are 1-2 weeks apart, the third is repeated after 1 year. Japanese encephalitis vaccine starts injecting when a child is 1 year old.

4. Drink plenty of water

In the summer, the weather is hot, sweat is much, causing the body to lose large amounts of water. Therefore, it is necessary to drink enough water when working or studying, remember to wear a hat, a wide-brimmed hat . to avoid sunstroke.

Remember to give your child plenty of water to prevent summer illness.(Illustration).

Absolutely do not drink a lot of ice, do not eat foods that are too cold . Do not let electric fans flush directly into the body, especially young children because they are more susceptible to colds, should not turn on the fans, and go after they have finished bathing.

5. Proceed to kill mosquitoes and larvae around the area

Removal of larvae (larvae larvae), except where mosquitoes breed, shelter is the most effective and effective method. This is especially necessary to prevent dengue.

- Leave the sewer, clear the bush around the house, around the village; remove items around the house, in the garden (such as watering cans, coconut shells, debris bottles, cups, cups, cans, broken tires, plastic pieces .) precipitation ; cover water jars, pots and tanks so that mosquitoes have no breeding grounds; Remember to scrub the water containers weekly to remove mosquito eggs, drop the flag to kill the larvae.

Clean up accommodation to avoid mosquito breeding, spreading summer diseases.(Illustration.)

- Arrange the house neatly, clean and airy; Do not hang clothes for mosquitoes to have no parking space.

- Avoid mosquito bites : repel mosquitoes, burn mosquito repellent, rub mosquito repellent on exposed skin; for children to wear long pants and long sleeves; Do not let children play outdoors when dark, do not let children stay naked or play in the dark, damp, humid areas; For children to sleep in the curtain, including daytime sleeps, especially babies and young children.

How should parents do when their health has unusual signs?

Parents must monitor and intervene in time when their child has a sudden fever, convulsions. Many cases of fever only 380C had seizures. Before being taken to the hospital, parents need to calmly cut the seizure by wiping it off with warm water . This warm water is lower than the body temperature of 2 degrees C (for example, a temperature of 38 degrees C, 36 degrees Celsius is wiped, should not be cleaned with ice water). Absolutely do not squeeze the lemon into the twitching baby's mouth, the lemon seed can enter the airway, very dangerous to cause the baby to flutter.

In addition, when children have symptoms of dry cough should not be overlooked, but should take children to medical facilities for treatment. Long-term storage can cause complications such as middle ear inflammation, sinusitis, pneumonia.

In the case of children with typhus with fever, cough, erythema on the skin, parents should avoid allergy-causing food on the skin such as sea fish, crabs, snails, beef . Body hygiene should At noon, wipe quickly with warm water. When a child has diarrhea, it should be compensated by giving the child dry sea salt or sugar salt infusion.

The most severe in this season is meningitis, meningococcal blood infection. Clinical signs: fever, discomfort, headache, neck pain, bulging fontanel (in young children), drowsiness, and neurological signs. Early diagnosis is needed to avoid brain damage. How to prevent: vaccinate children, avoid contact with children with meningitis, living - eating hygienically.

Note that in the dry season there is still dengue fever, need to kill larvae, clean living environment. When children see the third day still fever, hands have bleeding under the skin , parents must take the child to the hospital immediately. Make sure your child drinks plenty of water while fever.