How is polio contracted?

Polio is a disease that has a serious impact on children's health. Polio can hinder a child's normal intellectual development and normal healthy growth. Many children with polio will never be cured, and some may even need to rely on a wheelchair to walk for the rest of their lives. Therefore, parents should understand the causes of polio and try to prevent their children from getting the disease. Let’s take a look at how polio is contracted.

1. During the polio epidemic, avoid extracting decayed teeth. To prevent polio, be careful not to take children to public places such as theaters to reduce the chance of cross infection. To prevent polio, you should be especially careful not to eat food that has been bitten by flies or is contaminated.

2. To prevent polio, it is necessary to arrange children's rest and nutrition properly, avoid excessive fatigue and cold, and enhance children's resistance to disease.

3. Clinically, giving children oral inactivated polio vaccine, namely polio sugar pills, is the best way to prevent polio. This vaccine is safe, convenient, and provides strong and long-lasting immunity in clinical use, with very few adverse reactions, and is very popular among parents.

4. Another important part of preventing polio is to pay attention to children's daily diet hygiene. In daily life, children should be trained to wash their hands before and after meals, and not eat unclean food. To prevent polio, attention should be paid to the disinfection of children's clothes, bed sheets, toys, supplies and tableware (boiling for 15 minutes or exposing to sunlight for two hours).

How to prevent polio

Young children who have not been vaccinated, pregnant women, medical staff, immunocompromised people, susceptible children with a history of close contact after local surgery such as tonsillectomy, if they have close contact with patients, can be clinically injected with immunoglobulin for prevention. The dose is 0.3-0.5 ml per kilogram of body weight, or 6-9 ml of placental globulin, once a day for 2 consecutive days. The symptoms of the patient can be alleviated within one week after the injection. If the patient has not developed the disease after 2-5 weeks of infection, it means that passive immunization is successful and the child has been effectively protected.

Polio is an incurable disease. This disease is basically transmitted to the fetus while the pregnant woman is still pregnant, but there is no way to detect it. This disease basically does not occur anymore because humans are now vaccinated after birth, so it will not affect the next generation, so parents do not need to worry.