What diseases are
children prone to in Frost’s Descent season? How to prevent?
Frost’s Descent means that winter is about to begin, with low temperatures and dry weather, and children are prone to respiratory and digestive diseases, such as influenza, mycoplasma infection, respiratory syncytial virus infection, adenovirus infection, rotavirus enteritis or norovirus infection. Some children are also prone to allergic diseases.
In order to prevent these diseases, the most important thing for parents is to take good care of their children. Attention should be paid to adding clothes to children in time to prevent cold and keep warm. Pay attention to food hygiene and food safety when eating out. Fruits and vegetables should be washed, and raw and cooked food should be separated during food processing. Attention should be paid to balanced nutrition, reasonable diet, rich variety, meat and vegetable and coarse and fine collocation to ensure protein intake. In autumn and winter, when the weather is dry, children should drink more water and eat more fruits and vegetables. Exercise properly, work and rest regularly, and ensure adequate sleep. Pay attention to the family environment and personal hygiene, develop good hygienic living habits, wash hands frequently, and do not spit everywhere. During the epidemic season of respiratory diseases, try not to take children to places where people are crowded and the air is not circulating. The home should be ventilated regularly. When someone in the family has a respiratory tract infection, try to quarantine with the child. Children should try not to go to school with illness.
If children have allergic diseases, they should try to stay away from allergens. Children with skin allergies such as eczema should pay attention to skin moisturizing and wear pure cotton clothes. Children with allergic rhinitis should wear masks and take medicine according to medical supervision.
If there are no contraindications, it is recommended that children of the right age be actively vaccinated against influenza and rotavirus. In addition, the family can prepare some commonly used medicines suitable for children’s age, such as antipyretics, oral rehydration salts, anti-allergic drugs and so on. How can
parents effectively identify children with bronchopneumonia? Once infection is confirmed, what measures should parents take?
Autumn and winter are the seasons of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases in children, and the incidence of bronchopneumonia will also increase. Bronchopneumonia is one of the common types of pneumonia in childhood, which occurs frequently in cold season and is more common in young children under 3 years old.
Bronchopneumonia symptoms vary, most children will have fever, fever is mainly moderate to high fever, often accompanied by frequent cough, early dry cough, then phlegm, shortness of breath. In severe cases, there may be poor spirit, cyanosis around the mouth, wheezing and suffocation, and difficulty in breathing. Difficult breathing is often manifested as nodding breathing, nasal fan, three concave signs and so on. Some children may have digestive tract symptoms such as diarrhea. The manifestations of inf
antile bronchopneumonia are often atypical, with no fever or only low fever, no obvious cough, only shortness of breath, effort, lethargy or irritability, vomiting, choking, spitting, reduced feeding, effort or even refusal of milk. Once
children suffer from bronchopneumonia, they should seek medical treatment in time, especially premature infants and children with underlying diseases, because these children are more prone to severe illness, doctors will carry out lung imaging and other examinations according to the child’s condition, and some severe cases may require hospitalization. When nursing
at home, parents should follow the medical supervision, standardize the use of drugs, do not stop or increase or decrease the dosage of drugs, and take antipyretics reasonably. It is not recommended to take antitussive drugs routinely for children. If the cough is frequent and affects the daily life of children, it can be used under the guidance of doctors. Children can be helped to expectorate by atomizing and patting their backs. Pay attention to reasonable diet, balanced nutrition, exercise, and ensure normal work and rest.
