Maintaining the health of children is of particular concern of mothers, especially during seasons that are generally accompanied by a host of diseases. When the change of seasons happens, your body adapts extra hard to face the weather changes from dry season to rainy season. The original hot-air dry, suddenly becomes cold-damp. This condition, causing discomfort, also makes the body susceptible to disease. Generally, the rainy season begins transition uneven. This causes some areas are still dusty and hot tube.
Furthermore, dust and dirt that remain in the region with easily by the wind to other areas, and a vector (carrier) of disease. Children, especially toddlers, including those prone diseases in the transition seasons. If left unchecked, it is not likely develop into a harmful health problems.
A. Fever
Fever is one of the health problems often suffered by children in the transition seasons. This could be because this is new in the transition season battered children against many germs (usually a virus) on a large scale. Fever is not a disease. But a symptom that the body was building a defense against infection. More precisely, a fever can be a symptom of various diseases. Start mild to serious infections.
B. Respiratory Diseases
One of the diseases of children in the transition season that preceded fever is a disease of the respiratory system. Fever is a symptom of respiratory system disease is usually mild to moderate (37.4 to 39.4 degrees Celsius).
But in some cases of influenza in children, fever can reach 39.9 degrees Celsius. The initial symptoms of respiratory tract disease can include cough, sometimes accompanied by shortness of breath. Can also be accompanied by a cough runny nose, sneezing and increased body temperature. Can also appear specific symptoms, namely abnormal breathing.
Based on the location of the attack, the disease is divided into two:
b1. Upper respiratory tract disease.
Generally symptoms of upper respiratory tract disease is lighter, such as colds. Only in certain cases may arise serious symptoms such as fever which is rather high (on a strep throat) and toxemia or poisoning (in diphtheria).
b2. Lower respiratory tract disease.
Disturbance in this section could lead to bronchopneumonia, the inflammation of the lungs from the branches of a throat infection, and bronkioetitis, which is a serious infection in the last branch of the respiratory tract adjacent to the lung tissue.
C. Digestive Diseases
At the turn of the dry season to rainy season, cases of this disease is high because of large amount of dust and dirt that could potentially be a vector. The disease is also very closely related to food consumption patterns. Because the disease is usually caused by germs or viruses that commonly contaminate food and drink, whether it be home-made food or food hawker from outside the home. Given the diet of children who tend to be arbitrary, the possibility of this disease becomes very large.
GI disease is usually preceded by complaints of diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea is usually accompanied by fever, headache and stomach-churning. Feces children may appear slimy and bloody even (if the cause is not infection, symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea often accompanied by heartburn and stools without mucus and blood).
So that no unwanted things happen, first aid is usually given priority to stop the vomiting and diarrhea. And after being given treatment, within 3 days generally reduced complaints. If not, children need to be addressed more seriously.
D. Prevention and Treatment
Keeping the child's food intake. Adequate nutrition, according to age, weight and your child's activity will increase endurance, so not susceptible to disease
Equip it with a multivitamin. This supplement contains a variety of essential vitamins (which can not be made by the body). When given the right - the composition and the dosage adjusted to the needs of children - a multivitamin can help improve endurance so not susceptible to disease transition.
Make sure all food and beverages into the child's mouth is clean secured. That is, apart from having better hygiene in processing and preparing food at home, persuade children not to snack at random.
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