Parents of Haicang pay attention
Since the beginning of spring this year
Among the patients who went to Haicang Hospital for fever clinics
Many are human cubs
The maximum number of people exceeded 500 in one day
Fang Mei, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Haicang Hospital
Spring is a period of high incidence of some infectious diseases, especially the increase in infectious diseases of the digestive tract, such as rotavirus, babies from 6 months to 2 years old are susceptible to infection and are contagious.
What is rotavirus?
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Rotavirus is the world's leading pathogen of acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children under 5 years of age, which mainly infects small intestinal epithelial cells, causing cell damage and diarrhea. If your child is under the age of 5, especially between the ages of 6 months and 2 years, parents should be vigilant and prepared for prevention.
What are the symptoms of rotavirus?
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Typical presentations – vomiting, diarrhea, fever. Generally manifested as vomiting first and then diarrhea, diarrhea more than 3 times a day, even up to 10 to 20 times; feces are thin watery, egg flower soup-like, yellow or light green color, occasional mucus, usually no pus blood; fever is mostly based on high fever, usually fever and vomiting disappear after 2 days of onset.
Associated with varying degrees of dehydration, electrolyte disorders, acid-base imbalances.
A small number of children may present with more severe conditions, including, but not limited to, fatigue, drowsiness, convulsions, coma, shock, and other manifestations of involvement of vital organs of the heart, brain, liver, and kidneys.
If you have the above symptoms, parents can test for rotavirus antigens through stool specimens when they take their children to the hospital.
How does rotavirus spread?
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Contaminated hands, food, water and other vectors are all ways to transmit rotavirus, mainly through fecal-oral, human-to-human contact, aerosols and other ways.
Patients with rotavirus gastroenteritis at the source of transmission, convalescent detoxs, and asymptomatic infected people are all sources of infection.
The incubation period is generally 1 to 3 days, and the virus can be excreted through the feces from 2 days before diarrhea, usually lasting until about 10 days after the onset of symptoms.
How can rotavirus be treated and prevented?
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Pay attention to dietary rules: for babies who vomit frequently, they can temporarily fast for 2 to 3 hours according to the situation; if they do not vomit again, they can gradually resume their diet, and high-sugar, high-fat and high-crude fiber foods are not recommended.
Infants and young children who breastfeed may continue to breastfeed, and for infants with lactose intolerance, low or lactose-free formula feeding may be an option.
If frequent vomiting and diarrhea, high fever, poor spirits, thirst, dry mouth, less tears when crying, decreased urine output, convulsions, etc., please go to the hospital in time.
Wash your hands frequently
WASHING HANDS
#REMINDER #
Tips
It is recommended that parents should pay attention to dietary hygiene, wash their hands frequently, and take their children to outdoor activities to enhance their physical fitness when conditions permit, but it is not advisable to go to places where people gather. Take your child against rotavirus vaccine.
Wear a mask
WEARING A MASK
Spring is also a season of high incidence of allergic diseases
Parents should also beware
After the new crown epidemic, everyone has developed the habit of wearing masks, and the incidence of upper respiratory tract infections has decreased significantly, but the number of allergic diseases has increased significantly, which is closely related to our living environment and lifestyle. ——Fang Mei
What diseases are allergic? Fang Mei said that allergic rhinitis is one of them. If the baby repeatedly runs a nose, sneezes, digs nostrils, rubs the nose, rubs the eyes, snores at night, opens his mouth to breathe, and lasts for more than two weeks without significant improvement, then consider that your child may not be a cold, it may be allergic rhinitis.
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Allergic rhinitis can also affect our airways, causing your child to cough or wheeze and not heal. Because it is caused by allergies, you may take a lot of antibiotics and have no effect. Repeated nasal congestion can affect your child's sleep and even affect your child's growth and development. It is very necessary to look for allergens.
Pay attention to whether the child is allergic, parents can do some related allergen tests under the advice of the doctor, such as dust mites, cockroaches, animal fur and other allergies.
If it is the most common dust mite allergy, the bed needs to be cleaner, and some fluffy items on the bed need to be cleaned to keep the air in the room dry.
Another more important treatment is desensitization, which has been used for 110 years and is the only cure for allergies.
Fang Mei introduced that Haicang Hospital has a 24-hour pediatric fever clinic and has professional pediatricians on duty. If there are children with repeated allergies, they can come to Haicang Hospital for desensitization treatment under the guidance of a doctor.
It is understood that the pediatric department of Haicang Hospital, formerly known as the pediatric department of Gulangyu Hospital, has a history of more than 100 years and is one of the earliest departments in Xiamen to carry out standardized inhalation treatment for bronchial asthma. At present, the Department of Pediatrics has more than 50 medical staff, including 2 chief physicians, 8 deputy chief physicians, 5 attending physicians, 3 resident physicians, and more than 30 nursing staff.
Haicang District Rong Media Center
Source: Haicang Hospital, Xinhua Net, People's Daily
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