Written by Walid Abdel Salam Sunday, October 15, 2023 12:00 AM
The Ministry of Health and Population has warned of more than 11 diseases affecting children during the school season. These diseases range from viral diseases, the most important of which are colds, influenza, syncytial virus, stomach diseases, measles, and German measles.
The Ministry of Health and Population said: The most common diseases among students in schools are influenza, which is considered one of the most common diseases among children in schools, as well as gastritis, where inflammation of the stomach and intestines is caused by a virus and can spread quickly. Its symptoms are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, and most cases of gastroenteritis go away after a few days. Children and adults with gastroenteritis should get plenty of rest and replenish fluids lost from vomiting and diarrhea.
The Ministry of Health and Population added that it is a common disease to suffer from pink eyes, as pink eye or conjunctivitis is one of the diseases associated with allergies in children and its symptoms are eye redness, secretions, itching, and swelling. But contagious conjunctivitis is caused by bacteria or viruses, and treatments include antibiotics in the form of ointment or eye drops.
She continued: Colds spread during the school season, especially in classrooms crowded with students, and the child suffers from symptoms of sneezing, sore throat, headache, and cough. The child may also suffer from a runny nose and fever, depending on the severity of the condition.
She explained: Symptoms of the common cold can be treated using over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen to help manage headaches, muscle pain, or fever.
While measles is widespread in schools, it is contagious as it appears in the form of a skin rash and white spots inside the mouth and can lead to complications such as sore throat, pneumonia, and encephalitis.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said: There are ways to protect children from school diseases, which include maintaining the child’s personal hygiene and not sharing personal items, in addition to ensuring that the child eats healthy and beneficial meals, taking the necessary vaccines, and performing general tests related to the child’s immunity.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population explained that the preventive medicine sector in the ministry is carrying out a series of preventive and precautionary measures to track diseases and ensure the safety of the study environment, as samples of school water are taken and analyzed, while continuing to ensure that visits are made to ensure appropriate class densities, as well as to ensure the quality of ventilation, adding that School food is monitored and samples are taken to ensure its safety, adding that samples are taken from street vendors outside schools and they are instructed to preserve the food well.
In this context, Dr. Hossam Hosni, Head of the Scientific Committee for Corona at the Ministry of Health and Population, confirmed that he would like to prepare when entering schools by taking the necessary precautions for this, perhaps the most important of which is seasonal influenza vaccination, as it is important in order to reduce symptoms when infected with influenza and speed up the body’s resistance to it, as a form of prevention.
He pointed out that relying on healthy food to raise immunity is necessary and inevitable. The child should eat nutritious foods, not fast food, and the focus should be on drinks and foods that work to improve the efficiency of the immune system and raise immunity in the body in order to resist diseases, such as honey with black seed, for example, but not limited to.
He explained that the child must get accustomed to personal hygiene by washing his hands constantly throughout his time at school, and upon his return, he must immediately shower with warm water and soap, and cut his nails constantly, and he must always have in the bag hand sanitizer or alcohol in order to sterilize the table on which he sits. .
He recommended to parents that if symptoms such as high temperatures, sore throat, difficulty breathing, or tightness in the chest appear in their children, they should quickly go to the specialist doctor in order to receive the correct treatment. On the other hand, the sick child should not go to school, regardless of the circumstances of the father and mother. Schools should not receive these sick children because they could cause infection to other children.
2023-10-14 21:00:00
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