Many diseases can attack back-to-school students

Dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, pneumonia, bronchiolitis are diseases that doctors warn about to erupt in the beginning of the school year because of the high season of the disease is coming.

Statistics from Ho Chi Minh City Preventive Medical Center show that diseases such as dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, respiratory and digestive diseases are still in complicated situation, while this year's school year, the This street has nearly 1.5 million students at all levels going to school.

The pediatric hospital has overloaded the patient even more " congested " in the last days of August.
(Photo: Cao Lam).

At the meeting of the Department of Health briefing on September 1, Dr. Nguyen Dac Tho, deputy director of the City Preventive Medicine Center, said that in particular, dengue fever, in the second half of August, every week of the city Up to 300 new cases, doubling the previous weeks. Children Hospital 2 has about 50 cases being treated because of this disease, also at Children's Hospital 1, the number of children treated in dengue due to dengue is also 100. Most of the children are in school age.

Do not spread from person to person, but according to doctors, dengue fever, the course of the disease will be more complicated if schools do not clean up water containers that are larval habitats that cause disease.

With the characteristics of contagious and easy to cause neurological complications, hand, foot and mouth disease is also a concern for doctors in the early school season. Viral diarrhea is also a concern because students, especially semi-boarding or boarding students, must eat and live together.

In front of the fact that the pediatric clinic is massively increasing due to examination of sore throats, bronchiolitis and the situation of many years, doctors of Children's Hospital 1, said that the number of children infected at the beginning of school, most is that preschool and primary school children will certainly outnumber.

'Partly because the rainy season is coming, the other part is because the children change their way of living from' home 'to' go to school ', so they are more likely to be lazy to eat, plus with the mind of going to school, they will Easy to get tired, resistance will weaken , 'said one doctor.

The representative of the HCM City Department of Health said that in order to limit the students from failing to fall back to school, the Department had a coordinated document with the education sector to agree on environmental hygiene at schools, especially the school for sale. residence and boarding; remind teachers to prescribe disease prevention and disease detection to avoid spread.

Particularly parents need to pay more attention to the health of children, when there are abnormal signs such as prolonged fever, they should be taken to a doctor to be diagnosed for treatment.