What does human rotavirus antigen positive mean?

After contracting rotavirus, the patient will experience symptoms such as diarrhea, fever, cough and sore throat. If the diarrhea is severe, dehydration may occur. Therefore, in the autumn, when the baby at home has symptoms of fever and cough, do not think it is a common cold and fever. It is best to take the baby to the hospital for examination, because the baby is likely to have rotavirus, and autumn is the peak season for rotavirus.

What does human rotavirus antigen positive mean?

Rotavirus antigen is positive, which means autumn diarrhea. Rotavirus infection is a self-limiting disease. Treatment after infection is mainly to prevent and treat dehydration, prevent bacterial infection, and improve digestive function. The stool is either watery or yellow, sometimes contains bubbles, and sometimes is like jelly.

Ways to prevent rotavirus

1. Promote breastfeeding and add complementary foods appropriately.

2. Develop good hygiene habits, such as washing hands with soap before and after meals, washing and boiling bottles and utensils before use, paying attention to drinking water hygiene, and not drinking raw water. Wash fruits and vegetables before eating them raw, and use fly covers to prevent flies and cockroaches from biting and crawling on your food.

3. Strictly implement the Food Hygiene Law and ensure food hygiene in collective children's units.

4. Do a good job in disinfection and isolation of diarrhea patients to prevent the spread of the disease.

5. Vaccine prevention.

In addition to the general measures mentioned above, the most ideal measure to prevent rotavirus diarrhea is to take RV vaccine to stimulate the body to produce both local and serum antibodies. From the early monovalent oral live vaccines to the recent polyvalent oral live vaccines, great results have been achieved in the effective prevention and treatment of RV infectious diarrhea. However, the development of vaccines is still ongoing, and there is currently no world-recognized ideal RV vaccine. The future direction is to develop a new generation of more efficient, cheaper, and parenteral vaccines.

6. There is currently no effective preventive medicine for this disease.

Pay special attention to symptoms of dehydration

Doctors say that after a person is infected with rotavirus, the virus becomes most active 3-5 days later. Therefore, the patient's initial symptoms may not be diarrhea. They may have cold symptoms such as fever, cough, and sore throat. Some patients may have bowel movements several times a day, accompanied by vomiting and abdominal pain, and are easily misdiagnosed as having a gastrointestinal cold. However, if dehydration occurs, it is time to pay attention.