Limit contact between children and adults. This is the recommendation made by Christèle Gras-Le Guen, president of the French Pediatric Society, and head of the pediatric emergency department of the Nantes University Hospital, yesterday on franceinfo, to fight against the epidemic of bronchiolitis which affects 11 of the 13 regions of metropolitan France, so Paca.
“We need common sense measures to protect children from viruses, and therefore limit visits to the circle of very close adults, and especially non-sick adults. If parents get sick, they must wear a mask to avoid to infect the child, while the virus is eliminated “, explains Christèle Gras-Le Guen.
Last week, more than a thousand children under the age of two were hospitalized with bronchiolitis.
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