How to prevent bird flu in children

Have you often heard people talking about bird flu in the past two years? No one dares to take this disease lightly because of its high risk and easy transmission. People, especially families with children, are terrified of it. However, any disease can be prevented. As long as you take adequate preventive measures, you will not be infected by the disease. Families with children can take a look at how children can prevent avian influenza.

The main way and route for humans to be infected with avian influenza is direct contact with poultry infected with the avian influenza virus and their secretions and excrement, and inhalation of the virus particles therein.

The method to prevent the disease is also very simple: minimize children’s contact with poultry, especially with sick or dead poultry. Keep it clean. Make sure your children wash their hands before eating, and again after touching raw meat, raw poultry or eggs, so as to develop good personal hygiene habits. Parents should keep raw and cooked food separate when cooking to avoid cross contamination. Do not use the same cutting board or knife to handle raw meat and cooked (or directly eaten) food, and thoroughly clean utensils that have come into contact with raw meat. Surfaces and utensils that come into contact with raw meat and raw poultry should be cleaned and disinfected. In particular, cooked meat products should not be directly put back into the containers used before cooking. Containers that hold raw meat must be cleaned before holding cooked food. Chicken and eggs must be fully cooked before eating, and sick or dead poultry should not be slaughtered or eaten at home. Be sure to wear gloves or plastic bags when touching sick poultry; wash your hands with soap after touching sick poultry. Let your children exercise regularly, 3 times a week, for at least 30 minutes each time, to enhance the body's ability to resist disease.

During the avian influenza period, eat more edible fungi, because in addition to the vitamins, minerals and cellulose of vegetables, mushrooms also contain 2.7% plant protein and more than 20 kinds of amino acids, making them the closest vegetable variety to meat. What’s more important is that high-end edible fungi such as Oyster mushroom and White Oyster mushroom have the effect of anti-virus and improving immunity!

After reading the above article about how to prevent avian influenza in children, parents must take precautions in daily life to prevent the disease from causing harm to their children. The symptoms of avian influenza and common influenza are very similar, both of which include high fever, body aches, etc. Therefore, when the baby has cold symptoms such as fever, especially when the baby has been exposed to poultry feces and contaminants, parents are advised to go to the hospital for examination in time. Do not take it lightly and be careful not to mistake avian influenza for influenza.