Norovirus infection, also known as "winter vomiting disease", is at its peak from September to March. It is at the peak of the current period, and it is just in time for the children to start school, so recently we have seen that the CDC in Guangdong and other places has reported the epidemic of local norovirus infection.
Because the disease is highly contagious, I would like to remind parents to advise their children to take precautions at school. Children should be specially instructed to wash their hands frequently in school every day, and wash their hands with hand sanitizer and running water.
Because of the experience of preventing and controlling the new crown in the past, we have developed the habit of using hand sanitizer or disinfectant wipes for our children, and some parents may think of continuing to use these products for their children to prevent and control norovirus.
Unfortunately, norovirus is very tenacious, and such hand sanitizer products cannot kill it. Because the hand sanitizers and disinfectant wipes commonly used by us usually contain alcohol, and alcohol does not kill norovirus.
In the unfortunate event that the child is infected, when disinfecting and cleaning up vomit at home, chlorine disinfectant is used for disinfection, and a disinfectant containing high concentrations of chloride ions is used to kill norovirus.
Below, I use commercially available chlorine-containing disinfectants to emphasize to you what is a disinfectant containing high concentrations of chloride ions.
Take the very familiar "84 household disinfectant" as an example, its label says that the effective chlorine content is 1.00% ~ 1.35%, which is converted to 10g ~ 13.5g of available chlorine per liter.
If you use this bottle of 84 sanitize norovirus, you need to use the stock solution directly or only dilute it twice, instead of diluting it 29 times according to the method used on the label!
Because according to the "Health Tips for Prevention and Control of Campus in the High Incidence Season of Norovirus Diarrhea" issued by the Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention of the Health Commission, when cleaning up norovirus pollutants, it is necessary to use gauze, rags and other disposable absorbent materials to dip 5g-10g of disinfectant containing 5g-10g of available chlorine per liter to completely cover the pollutants, carefully remove it, or soak it in disinfectant containing 5g of available chlorine per liter for 30 minutes and then treat.
The toilet toilet is also poured with a sufficient amount of disinfectant containing 5g-10g of effective chlorine per liter, and then flushed for more than 30 minutes.
Tools such as mops and rags used in cleaning, as well as containers containing contaminants, must be soaked and disinfected with a disinfectant solution containing 5 g of available chlorine per liter to completely kill norovirus.
Regarding treatment, there are currently no effective anti-norovirus drugs, and like the new crown infection, symptomatic supportive treatment is the mainstay, and the focus of treatment is timely hydration to prevent dehydration. For more information on how to treat and prevent, I have distilled it in the table below, which parents can collect in case they need it.
Finally, I ask parents to forward this information to the teachers in kindergartens and schools to ensure that norovirus sanitize high concentrations of chlorine disinfectants are also used in schools to ensure effective prevention and control of the spread of norovirus in schools. (End)