The misconception when care children with measles

When you see children with measles, adults often apply all abstinence measures wind, water diets by hooded young sealed, not body hygiene. This is a mistake. Dr. Khanh advised not to do so because when closed will cause young bosses could not fever, convulsions due to high fever going. If the toilet is not the body that will make the child uncomfortable, easy to skin infection and complications of pneumonia. Note do not get older being too cold.

Try eating

Abstinence of eating for fear the patient indigestion as well as misconceptions. The doctor advised not fasting because children with fever rash usually included anorexia, if food and malnutrition are easy kids prone to complications. When the affected child forced to eat more than normal children, eat several meals, eating foods easy to digest.

Not in place hygiene

Many families have children with measles does not note in hygiene, thus compounding the condition becomes severe infection. As recommended, when someone infected with measles, should the family quarantined, while cleaning clean living environment and keep in place always open.

Do not know the mechanism of spread of disease

Think measles spread through skin contact in the ban. Actually this disease is primarily spread through the respiratory tract. When patients cough, sneeze, talk do shoot drops of exudates out and then diffused in the air, wholesome people inhaled will be infected. In addition, those who take care of patients with measles or are exposed to pathogens that do not wash their hands clean germ can also spread the virus to other people. Very rare cases spread indirectly through skin exposure.

Too subjective, not vaccinated for small children

Many parents do creativity or fear complications without vaccinations for children from the age of 9 months later before age 1. As noted, in most cases the affected child are not yet vaccinated.

Too pessimistic about the disease

Despite being in the room but measles is not too dangerous, most can be cured. As noted in the hospital No.1 each day there are about 40-60 older hospital treating measles. Most of the patients were cured in a short time, yet there are cases of death.

Apply the healing methods have not proven effective

When children are sick, many parents because of fear should use the traditional folk healing method mouth with grass, trees, flowers, the leaves have not been proven effective, the risk of causing infections, food poisoning is very easy going.

The care of children with measles:

-Additional vitamin A (dosage according to age and directed by your doctor)

-For children with fever medication Acetaminophen when young temperature over 38, 5oC

-Be able to drink such as cough reliever: Pectol, Astex.

-Special feeding fostering mode (should not abstain the election), should be divided into smaller portions for easy digestion and proper volume enough. Should children continue sucking the mother if the child is still nursing.

-Should give the child in a cool, dry place. Bathing, body hygiene (tooth, mouth, anus, genital) daily to prevent multiples.

Currently, in the condition of hospitals are overloaded patients with measles and became the cause cross-infection measles for children who haven't yet caught the take me to the hospital in need of parents to consider carefully. Just take me to the hospital when really needed. Also when older onset incidence of measles, parents can conduct child care at home.

Correct understanding on what to do when a child has measles care at home is the best method that parents help children quickly overcome the disease.=