Prevention of influenza in children

Autumn and winter are the seasons when influenza is most prevalent among children. If a child accidentally contracts influenza and it is not detected or treated in time, and if the child goes to play in crowded places, it is easy to infect others and cause the disease to worsen and recur. It may even lead to serious consequences such as lung infection. Therefore, active prevention and treatment of influenza in children is necessary. So, how should we prevent influenza in children? Let’s take a look at the detailed introduction below.

Prevention of influenza in children

If children's influenza is not properly prevented, once they contract this type of cold, it will spread quickly. It can be transmitted quickly through the air or other public items, allowing the virus to spread rapidly and cause great harm. Therefore, the prevention of influenza in children is particularly important. So how to prevent this influenza? You can do a good job of prevention in the following aspects:

1. General Prevention

1. During the epidemic period, methods to prevent influenza infection should be widely publicized to the public. Children should be taken to crowded public places as little as possible, and should be taken to hospital outpatient departments where patients are concentrated for medical treatment less often. If necessary, classes should even be suspended and childcare institutions should be stopped. It is recommended that children wear masks when going out.

2. You should pay attention to physical exercise and spend more time outdoors in the sun to enhance your body's ability to withstand cold.

3. Pay attention to balanced nutrition to prevent rickets and malnutrition.

4. In winter, the indoor air should be fresh, open the windows several times a day to ventilate and keep the room temperature constant.

2. Vaccination

1. Live attenuated vaccines

2. Inactivated vaccines

3. Drug prevention

1. Amantadine

2. Ribavirin and human exogenous interferon have certain effects

3. During the virus epidemic, use 1:2000 furacilin or 10% eucalyptus solution for nasal drops and pharyngeal spray.

4. Take Chinese herbal medicines such as isatis indigotica, smilax china, isatis root, lithospermum officinale, and honeysuckle.

It should be noted that many parents still have various misunderstandings about the prevention of influenza.

1. Misuse of Isatis root. Many parents take it for granted that Isatis root has antiviral effects and that it is a traditional Chinese medicine with no side effects, so they give it to their children for a long time without scruples to prevent influenza. Actually, it’s not appropriate. Isatis root is not a good medicine for preventing influenza, and improper use may cause allergies and adverse reactions in the digestive and hematopoietic systems.

2. Some parents believe that once children receive the flu vaccine, they can avoid catching a cold, or at least they will catch a cold less often than before. This view is actually incorrect. In fact, getting a flu shot can prevent influenza viruses, but it cannot prevent the occurrence of the common cold. It can only relieve the symptoms of the common cold and shorten the cold cycle. Therefore, just because you still catch a cold after being vaccinated, you cannot assume that the vaccine is ineffective.

3. Other parents believe that as long as their children have received the flu vaccine, they can rest assured for the rest of their lives. In fact, because the vaccine formula is made based on the prediction of the virus strains that will be prevalent that year, and the influenza virus strains mutate almost every year, the influenza vaccine needs to be administered every year.

It can be seen that there are many ways to prevent influenza in children, but parents should also avoid misunderstandings about preventing influenza, do a good job of prevention and treatment from a scientific perspective, pay attention to children's daily hygiene, avoid playing in places with dense air and dense populations, increase nutrition, improve resistance, strengthen exercise, and make children healthier and healthier.