Simple way to prevent pneumonia for children during the season

The current seasonal weather makes many children hospitalized for respiratory illness, especially pneumonia.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Nam, Head of Pediatrics Department of Bach Mai Hospital, said the "dull " weather in the morning and afternoon of warm sunshine was the reason why many children fell ill. .

Earlier, at the Pediatric Clinic (Department of Examination, Bach Mai Hospital), an average of about 300 patients per day, now increased significantly, mostly patients with respiratory infections, pneumonia. In addition, patients with dengue fever (dengue fever) and purulent meningitis were also noted.

At the National Hospital of Pediatrics, the number of patients coming for examination and treatment also increased with more than 3,000 patients, an increase of 1.5 times before the monsoon. Children hospitalized mainly related to respiratory diseases, fever, pneumonia, diarrhea, dengue .

Doctor for pediatric examination at Pediatrics at Bach Mai Hospital.

Doctors recommend, to prevent pneumonia for children, parents need to pay attention:

1. The most important is the temperature regulation for children

With the current weather, cold light can wear T-shirts, a thin jacket for children to go to the school to take off. For young children in the house, wearing long-sleeved t-shirts is enough, not too much. Parents can try by touching people and warm limbs are enough. Windows also need to be opened for air circulation.

When young children go to bed, babies are very hot, sweating. At this time, please wipe off the sweat for children, turn on the fans with the wind but parents remember to turn off the fans for children when it is cold at night.

2. Need to cover when coughing , sneezing, washing your hands often with soap, wearing a mask . to not spread the disease to other members. Parents should instruct older children to have a common sense of hygiene, to prevent cross-infection in the same family.

3. Diet

Should give children a rich diet, nutritious, rich in vitamin C to increase resistance for children.

4. Clean the items that children often contact, dry dry . Especially keep the baby's bedroom clean, do not use floor coverings. Pay attention to the long-term bookcases in the family that make it easy for children to inhale dust and mold from books that suffer from allergic rhinitis, acute asthma attacks, hospitalization .

3 signs currently need to observe children under 6 years old

According to doctors, the group of children under 6 months old has poor resistance, so the risk of disease is higher than that of older children. In addition, pneumonia in young children is not as aggressive as in older children (fever, cough, shortness of breath .) with few typical signs. There are children who do not even have fever, no cough, so it is very difficult to identify signs.

With this age group, parents need to pay attention to 3 basic signs to determine their baby's condition, promptly take them to the hospital. It is monitoring the feeding process, when your baby sleeps and how your baby breathes. However, there are children who have only one expression in the three manifestations but have pneumonia. Therefore, parents should not "wait" for full signs of going to the doctor to see if they have abnormalities of sleep, or see rapid breathing, should take their children to the earliest examination.