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  • China - Chongqing - Large number of patients recently, many adults and children with flu-like symptoms

    Flu season into multiple experts teach you to prevent influenza

    2013-11-27  Source: China News Network  

    The total number of outpatient double than usual, a lot of adults and children in the move

    Yesterday, the two junctions Children's Hospital, emergency infusion of children increased significantly. Chongqing Morning News reporters Yuan Tie and Li She Yesterday, the Morning News reporters Zou Fangchong and Yi Fuer homes and re-affiliated Children's Hospital, many patients with a fever.
    Doctors say many patients are presented with flu-like symptoms.

    Municipal Health Bureau recently released in October when the city reported notifiable infectious diseases, has reminded the public: the flu has entered the high season, in schools and other places where people gather, clusters of cases and outbreaks occur at higher risk.
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    11 o'clock in the morning, outside the hospital emergency department chairs on both sides of the corridor is almost filled with people, some are clutching his head seems a headache, while others are holding a pole in the infusion. Look at the infusion room, beds already full, and also want to keep someone on the inside looking to rest position.

    The value of the emergency department physician alcohol the night of Lee Wen said he had been in inpatient work, because too many patients last night, he was temporarily transferred over. He said: "From the beginning of last week, the patient will significantly increase, many are cold, fever, and some have obvious symptoms of the flu." Doctors, and the common cold compared to the flu usually have fever, body fatigue symptoms, but not the common cold as a runny nose or watery eyes situations.

    "6 o'clock every evening after the big rush of patients to seek treatment." Lee alcohol Wen said, because in addition to the elderly, many young people are also the flu season in the move, and then use the time off work to see the doctor.

    Hospital emergency department deputy director Wang Xiaolong said that from about the beginning of last Thursday, the emergency department colds, fever on a large number of patients increased, and several recent cool about it, should also be relevant and flu season high. He said: "Under normal circumstances we observed a day of infusion patients remain around 90 people, now has basically reached about 120 people, more than 3 percent."
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    Flu ferocious allow doctors were also not spared. Office, Wang Xiaolong muzzled cough twice, said: "Last weekend, because I am a man cold, two children at home was a calamity." Wang Xiaolong felt their symptoms such as flu, plus at home contact with the child, the child is sick, in retrospect, he had felt himself imprudent.

    Yesterday morning, Chen said is the infusion, but also because of a fever, his leave of absence from the unit to a doctor, not a half-day salary. Even more thrilling is that because they ate some cold medicine, the eyes are wide open while driving can not afford.
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    In addition to adults, sick children than before. Yesterday afternoon, the Children's Hospital emergency room, parents take their children to line up five or six, almost surrounded by doctors. An emergency department doctor told reporters: "The whole morning, you want to go on trips to the bathroom is very difficult." Look at the emergency room transfusion center, holding the child's parents have been routed lined up at the gate, the team almost 30 meters long. Also some parents take their children are infusion has been "squeezed" onto the sidewalk outside the emergency department.

    Professor Tan Liping, deputy director of the emergency department at Children's Hospital, from the start by the end of October, the number of hospital emergency department patients has significantly increased the total number of clinics is double than usual. She said that on the emergency of view, the child's respiratory and digestive diseases more to children 3 years of age based. Because it is flu season, many children have flu-like symptoms, including fever and vomiting.

    "Doctor, my daughter caught a cold from the beginning of the month, taking medication is not good, you see, is how is it?" Yesterday afternoon, Ms. Huang, who lives Dashiba couple with four-year-old daughter to see the doctor, watching her daughter apathetic the way, the couple was in a hurry.
    Ms Wong said, had good cold, but then a day or two to the nursery school and again began to cough, fever, "and this time the baby nursery colds and fever has never been broken."

    "Children recurrent disease, it may be because the nursery staff intensive, vulnerable to influenza caused." Tan Liping suggested that if the child appears similar situation, it is best not to go to kindergarten, parents do not take them to crowded places.
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    What is the flu? It is an acute viral respiratory infections caused by influenza viruses. City of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention experts, the annual winter season (around November to March) are relatively high incidence of the flu season. On the current situation, the city's flu incidence level is rising, but the incidence trend is consistent with previous years.
    Experts teach you to prevent influenza
    For us, how to do it in order to prevent the invasion of the flu? Yesterday, the City Communicable Disease Control and Prevention experts to give us support the move.
    1, influenza vaccination (especially the elderly, children, the chronically ill and other special populations) can prevent influenza h1n1 flu, influenza h3n2 flu and influenza B. Because the influenza virus mutates quickly, so annual vaccination is recommended;
    2, to maintain good personal and environmental hygiene;
    3, wash their hands with soap or hand sanitizer and wash your hands with running water, no dirty towels towels, hand contact with respiratory secretions should wash their hands immediately after;
    4, the application when sneezing or coughing handkerchief or tissue to cover your nose and mouth to prevent droplet contamination of others;
    5, a balanced diet, regular exercise, adequate rest and avoid fatigue;
    6, ventilation windows several times a day to keep indoor air fresh;
    7, flu season, try less crowded, polluted air spaces, must go, it is best to wear a mask.

    Above from: China News Network
    [Editor: yf006]

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