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Morelos
Urge to prevent respiratory diseases
* Continue low temperatures
El Sol de Cuernavaca
January 10, 2011
Karina Ortega
Jojutla, Morelos .- To mark the return to classes, the authorities of the Sanitary District Jojutla II, urged parents and teachers to make medical filters to prevent the disease from influenza A H1N1 and respiratory diseases, which have been increasing by five percent in the 39 health centers.
Eroza Cesar Osorio, Coordinator of Health Care in this unit, said the first fence begins at home by parents and the second teachers in schools identified for a student with a bad cold, then it return home to be brought to the clinic.
"Going into the winter we have had sudden changes in temperature: in the day, a comfortable temperature of 28 to 30 degrees, and in the morning, at 1 or 2 am, there are severe weather changes which in some places, such as Ixtla bridge, the temperature has dropped to 4 degrees, "he said.
It also called on people not to self-medicate and drink plenty of fluids in vitamin c, water, juice and continue with the recommendations given, such as maintaining good hygiene at home, so far not detected any cases of influenza AH1 N1.
However, he said that respiratory diseases are recorded in the 39 health centers, about 350 cases a week, of which 250 relate to children under five years, which is why I stress to people to go to health centers.
It is worth mentioning that the reports that have been the traditional flu, which every year we expect, "We have no reports so far, the H1N1 influenza, according to our monitoring, we do through sentinel units with which we sampled for the same. "
Therefore, urged citizens to continue security measures such as washing hands often, keep warm and covered in the forearm in case of illness and seek medical advice.