Prevention of dengue fever increased sharply

In April, the cold air is short-term, with drizzling rain, making the environment humid, a favorable condition for mosquitoes to grow and develop in the North.

Dengue epidemic thrives from March to November.

Currently, in the North, dengue is at risk of spreading and increasing. The characteristics of the Northern and Northern climate of Central Vietnam often have short-term cold air periods with drizzling rain, which makes the environment humid . This is a favorable condition for mosquitoes to grow and develop. In the North in general and Hanoi Capital in particular, the epidemic is at risk of increasing from March to November.

According to the Hanoi Department of Health, in 2015, Vietnam recorded more than 88,000 dengue cases in 58 provinces. Particularly in Hanoi, more than 15,000 cases of illness (more than 1,800 cases compared to 2014) but no deaths. Changes in the environment, lifestyle and climate, environmental sanitation do not guarantee many opportunities for mosquitoes to cause disease to multiply and develop.

To prevent disease, you should keep all water containers so that mosquitoes do not spawn, especially in rural and rural areas, and student accommodation, workers or water tanks, cisterns, pots . When the floor, the walls of the house are sweating, the windows are wide open and the doors are airy. Dry dry wet areas. For families who plant ornamental plants indoors or have a garden, spray insecticides simultaneously.

Many people believe that in March it is cold without mosquitoes, so sleeping without a curtain. This is subjective thinking, especially dangerous for young children. This time mosquitoes often reside in dark, humid places; Attention should be paid to protecting children from mosquito bites.

Children are easy to be attacked by mosquitoes and infected by weak resistance. When bitten by mosquitoes, children are more swollen and itchy than adults. The reason that adults after many times have been bitten by mosquitoes has been more adaptive, so the immune system reacts less seriously than children. Therefore, in addition to measures to eradicate mosquitoes in the living environment, parents should take the initiative in protecting children by cleaning, changing children's clothes every day, letting them play in a cool place, wearing long-sleeved clothes and clothes. curtain when going to bed .

Besides, parents can use mosquito-repellent products in open skin areas for babies.