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Typhus is a common disease in children between the ages of 6 and 36 months because this is the period when children have weak resistance and are easily attacked by the typhus virus. Typhus can completely be treated and cared for at home depending on the child's condition and under the guidance of a doctor.
1. Overview of typhus
Usually we all have typhus once, for children too, the risk of typhus is higher than adults because of weaker resistance. Typhus is a benign disease, children can completely recover from the disease and have normal health if they are treated and cared for properly after 5-7 days.
Typhus in young children is contagious for many reasons. Especially in a group environment where children go to school, the chances of getting sick are even higher. The disease is spread through inhalation, coughing, sneezing, sneezing, splashing saliva containing the virus that causes disease and infecting each other. Therefore, there are also many children because of their weak resistance, so they can completely get typhus a second time.
When seeing a child with symptoms of high fever with cough, runny nose, red eyes a few days later, a rash appears on the whole body, parents should immediately think of typhus. Children will be fussy, anorexic before the rash appears. After the rash appears on the surface of the skin, the child will reduce fever, reduce fussiness. The phenomenon of erythema appears starting from the face and then spreading to other parts of the body, lasting 5-7 days. During the time of the rash, the child still has a mild fever, some children may have diarrhea, loose stools...
Although it is a benign disease, if the child has typhus fever, it is not treated properly and promptly. can cause serious complications affecting the health and development of children later in life. Typhus can cause pneumonia, otitis media, dysentery and, more seriously, encephalitis. Especially for pregnant women in the first 3 months, having typhus can cause consequences such as miscarriage, premature birth, birth defects...
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2. Note when treating typhus at home
Reducing fever for children with typhus properly is the first thing to do when a child has typhus fever. For children with a fever of 38 degrees, doctors recommend giving children a single dose of Paracetamol fever-reducing medicine at a dose of 10-15mg/kg body weight, every 4-6 hours. Besides, combined with wiping the child's body with just enough warm water, limiting the complications of high fever causing convulsions.
Parents should know how to reduce symptoms associated with fever for children such as cough by taking cough medicines of herbal origin such as using alum sugar, steamed ginger with honey. Circulating the baby's nose makes it easier for the child to breathe by using dilute saline and soft tissue to clean the baby's nose.
Diet plays an important role in strengthening resistance and shortening the duration of typhus for young children. Some notes parents need to know in the diet for children with typhus are as follows:
Give children liquid foods that are easy to digest, provide enough water for children It is advisable to divide meals into small meals. for children to easily absorb and receive maximum nutrients from meals Give children more water than usual, especially fruit juices to provide enough vitamins, improve resistance during and after the process typhus Do not let children fast during fever because it is easy to cause malnutrition for children, it is necessary to find ways to feed children more than usual.
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Need to keep clean and ventilated for children with typhus fever. Doctors said that the wrong habit that parents often encounter when their child has typhus is abstaining from wind, abstaining from water, and abstaining from bathing. This is a completely wrong concept, making the child's rash worse, longer and harder to cure. Covering up and abstaining from the wind will make the child unable to reduce the fever, easily causing convulsions due to the high fever that cannot be reduced. Besides, abstaining from water, not keeping children clean makes them uncomfortable, prone to skin infections, causing pneumonia complications... Instead, parents should clean their children's bodies with warm water. just enough.
3. When does a child with typhus need hospital treatment?
Parents should note that, after taking care of the fever at home, the child still does not have a fever, even though he has taken medicine and needs to be taken to the hospital. Especially for children under 6 months of age, whose resistance is weak and the rash does not change well after 3 days, they should be taken to the hospital immediately for timely treatment.
At the hospital, the treating doctor will ask about the child's medical history, perform tests, diagnose and give the most appropriate treatment indications for the child's typhus.
4. How to prevent typhus effectively for young children
Limit exposure to disease-causing environments, isolate children with typhus, adults with measles Vaccinate according to the national immunization schedule: 1st dose of measles vaccine at 9 months of age, 2nd dose repeat the measles - rubella vaccine at 18 months of age Improve the body's resistance for children through eating enough nutrients, supplementing with vitamins and minerals... Cleanliness for children and equipment The children's surroundings should also be kept clean. Clean the nasal passages, throat, and eyes daily with an antiseptic solution.
If you have unusual symptoms, you should be examined and consulted with a specialist.
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