Children with influenza should follow the doctor’s treatment, adequate nutrition, drink plenty of water, wear cool clothes.
Dr. Nguyen Dong Bao Chau, Pediatric Department, Tam Anh General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, instructing parents how to take care of children below for effective treatment process.
Care in private rooms, disinfectant hygiene
Parents should let children have influenza in private rooms for care and monitoring for at least 7 days. Limiting contact with others when not necessary, especially people with high risk factors, heavy progress when the flu is like children and the elderly.
Children should wash their hands regularly with disinfectant solution or soap and water. Children’s personal belongings should be separate and clean and disinfected. If your child goes out of a private room, wear a mask. Parents should choose medical masks for children to help ensure hygiene, ventilation, comfort, and breathing. Relatives directly take care of children should also wear masks to prevent disease. These measures are aimed at reducing the amount of viruses, limiting the risk of long -term re -infections in children, reducing the risk of infection to family members.
Parents choose for children with medical masks for convenience and ventilation. Artwork: Dinh Lam
Use air conditioning properly
Influenza children often feel uncomfortable. Maintain a cool enough air -conditioned temperature to help children comfortable. Note do not let the child lying on the air conditioner blowing out, keeping the body warm. During the daytime, open the door to ensure air ventilation, clean living space.
No bathing
Children bathe clean with warm water, take a quick bath, dry and keep warm quickly, helping the process of recovery. Parents choose the time when the highest temperature of the day and the child does not have a fever to bathe their children.
Let children wear cool clothes
Influenza children often have fever, cough, sweating … Parents should let their children wear cool clothes, made from soft materials, good sweat absorbing to be comfortable, relaxing, supporting Recovery process.
Eat enough quality
Increasing food has the effect of supporting the immune system, providing children with essential nutrients to accelerate the health recovery process.
Foods rich in vitamin C are one of the important ingredients of the immune system, helping leukocytes produce, increase immunity to the body. Vitamin C is found in oranges, pears, bananas, grapes, apples, papaya.
Foods rich in protein in meat, eggs … provide enough nutrition for children.
Foods rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals such as broccoli, kale, spinach, vegetables, tomatoes, carrots, pumpkin … also work to enhance children’s resistance.
Parents process food into liquid, soft to help children easily digest and diverse dishes to stimulate taste, appetite. Divide many meals for older children to eat enough and substances.
Water plays an important role in the transformation process. Symptoms of the flu can also cause children to be dehydrated, if prolonged can cause dangerous complications. Children should drink more water every day. For breastfeeding children, parents should increase breastfeeding compared to normal needs to help provide enough nutrients, minerals and water.
Children rest a lot
Children often feel tired and need more time to rest than usual. Children should rest in a cool, clean space, participate in their favorite activities at a gentle level, avoid strong exercise.
Small nose and use the drug properly for children
Nasal congestion is one of the common symptoms when children have flu. Small nose and proper hygiene to eliminate mucus, dirt inside the child’s nose, improve congestion and ventilation. Parents should consult a doctor to drop the nose, clean the nose properly for their children. Parents can combine to use drugs for children, including antipyretic drugs, cough -reducing drugs and other drugs but need to be prescribed by the doctor.
Children with influenza are treated, well cared for. However, some cases may experience severe complications such as pneumonia, myocarditis, meningitis. Parents should regularly monitor the child’s health, quickly take them to the hospital when one of 4 body danger signs including abandoning or refusing or eating or drinking, vomiting everything, convulsions, libidies It is difficult to wake up. The symbol of complications of influenza such as coughing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, high fever is difficult to lower (usually above 39 degrees), eat or feed poorly, show signs of dehydration ..