How to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in summer?
Posted on October 16, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention | Leave a Comment
Summer holidays, and children in kindergartens and schools will be home in the resort. Many of them are children of migrant workers, the original plan to return home for the summer, but the recent high incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease, the parents were very worried about this, can get their children to summer child care training? To return home on the road and at home how children Prevention of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? To this end, Hangzhou interviewed by the CDC infectious disease control experts, come up with strategies for parents.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is currently the high-risk population mainly in children under 5 years of age. Therefore, experts believe, can we not bring young children under 5 years old back home, the best. Because some workers in the rural home of some health conditions are relatively poor in the city, and some of the elderly poor health habits are also a number of relatively young people. Poor sanitary conditions and habits will lead to more infected with hand, foot and mouth disease risk.
If a parent is too busy to work with children, you must send their children to return home will have to pay attention the following issues.
Outside the house, pay attention to food hygiene
Migrant workers back home, multi-train. The train is moving in public places, staff more complicated, poor sanitary conditions are correspondingly more. Therefore, must stay in the prevention in mind. Hand, Foot and mouth disease transmission is very clear, mainly through the fecal enteroviruses – mouth and / respiratory droplets, can also make contact with patients skin and mucous membrane infected with herpes solution (whether via water or food-borne is not clear). Therefore, prevention could focus on things not eat indiscriminantly, especially the carriage next to him delivered to the food (which can politely refuse), the children will be and post-Wash hands before eating; compartment doors and windows should be opened from time to time, maintain good ventilation; Do not let children and are not familiar with close contact with the neighbor kids playing, etc. Do not let children fumble around the items. If the child has hand, foot and mouth disease suspicious symptoms, contact with the conductor.
Six elements of home care and disease prevention
Families spread of infection in this part of hand, foot and mouth disease has recently been Hangzhou, prevention and treatment expert’s attention. Because, Hangzhou scattered significantly more than the number of children infected with preschools. Whether it is in Hangzhou, home, or return to his home in the countryside, the family links of preventive measures mainly 6 points:
1. Before meals and after meals, or wash their hands with soap liquid returning to the children wash their hands, do not let children drink unboiled water and eating cold food.
2. Parents with children prior to or replacement of diapers, have to wash your hands after handling feces and properly dispose of refuse dirt.
3. Infants and young children bottle, nipple should be promptly cleaned before and after use.
4. In the hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic periods, should not bring children to the crowd gathered in public places with poor air circulation to keep the household sanitation, indoor and often ventilation, ground drying clothing.
5. Child-related symptoms appear to be in time to the medical institutions for treatment; not to allow home treatment of children with contact with other children, parents must be promptly carried out on children’s clothing drying or disinfected, the disinfection treatment in children with faeces in a timely manner.
6. There are families with young children for daily disinfection of the following methods:
Eating utensils, drinking with disinfection: the preferred boiling or steam sterilization for 20 minutes, or soaked in disinfectant solution; towels, handkerchiefs disinfection: boil or steam sterilization, but also can be used disinfectant solution soaked; life of appliances, toys, furniture, books, etc. Disinfection: wipe with disinfectant solution disinfection, ultraviolet light irradiation for 30 minutes, or sun exposure; patients with clothing, linen disinfection: sun exposure or use disinfectant soaking; bloom waste container sterilization: disinfectant soaking; Garbage sterilization: A disinfectant spray disinfectant solution. Hand, Foot and mouth disease is the chlorine used to disinfect disinfectant disinfectant (84 disinfectant solution or bleaching powder), can be bought in shopping malls.
Recent try to avoid stopping by with children. If a neighbor with young children to sect, brought about because of folks do not understand the health status of children, it is recommended to avoid the children eat together. If the child so that relatives of escrow, please let those who hosted a daily attention to whether the child fever and hand, foot, mouth and other parts of the herpes. If so, they should promptly go to a local designated hospital.
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