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Be wary of dangerous diseases in children

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Summer weather is also favorable conditions arising out of dangerous infectious diseases, especially for children. Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health) has advised diarrheal diseases, encephalitis, pinkeye, foot and mouth, dengue is showing signs of increasing.

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K greed for young patients


Disease attack

Shortly after the appearance of the first deaths due to meningococcal infection in mid-May last, Preventive Medicine Center City. Ho Chi Minh City has issued a notice to the preventive health unit districts wary of this disease. Deaths is little case V.H.N.Y. (5 months old, live in District 11) enter City Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Ho Chi Minh in a state of high fever, vomiting, bleeding in the skin, the test results identify patients infected with meningococcal bacteria infection. Although doctors have attempted rescue but the child did not pass critical. Doctor Nguyen Vu Minh Thu, Faculty of Infectious Disease Control (Center for Preventive Medicine TP. HCM), worried because just appeared a meningococcal infection outbreak, if not well controlled will spread .

Inflammation is meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis bacteria cause that children under 2 years old can be met, but more common in children aged 2 years and older. The disease spread in the community, often derived from a naturally occurring pathogenic drive causing infection many patients. At the residence of the children are sick, if no solution zoning prompt stamping, meningococcal will infect other children inhalation such as cough, sneeze ... In the northern region, the Department of Health Provision room (MOH) is also concerned to note at the children's hospital showed that children were diagnosed with meningitis are also increasing. "Compared with the same period last year, the number of cases of meningitis have increased, as soon as the first new summer hot" -a leader Preventive Health Department said.

Food hygiene and living

Dr. Truong Dinh Bac-deputy director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, said children with atopic very sensitive to the weather, especially when there is a sudden change of temperature from cold to hot or vice versa. A reality show in the hot season is hot and dry weather makes the air humidity is high, creating favorable conditions for pathogens such as bacteria, viruses (also called viral) ... and attacks are likely to cause them very susceptible because children have weak resistance.

For effective prevention of disease hot season, Department of Preventive Medicine recommends creating personal hygiene habits better, such as proper hand washing before eating, after using the toilet and play helps children kind effectively remove these dangerous pathogens from their own hands. Handwashing is considered "free doses of vaccine" for everyone. Eating drinking: the processing and preservation of food, beverages must comply with strict safety regulations of food hygiene of the Ministry of Health, in order to exclude up of pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract may may harm the health of children. Keep ventilated environment, clean and safe, in order to limit the spread of infectious diseases dangerous. Luminescent environment, eliminate standing water where to stop the development of Culex mosquitoes are vectors of dengue fever.

Source SGGP

 

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