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China - Pediatric Admissions for Pneumonia "Particularly High" last 2 days in Nanjiang - Weather Blamed

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
2010-08-29 06:11:00 Source: Journal of Nanjing (Nanking) to keep abreast of the news on cell phones 0

NEW YORK (Correspondent Yang Pu Hou Xiaoyun Gu Yi Fei's Ni Xiuping) sent a sudden a cold autumn weather, many people can still customary jacket, skirt dress. Reporter learned yesterday from the major hospitals, many people have been "frozen" into the hospital. Doctors cautioned that "Spring cover their autumn freeze" the old saying vary, people still have to change clothes according to temperature changes in a timely manner.

Our hospitals, municipal Red Cross Hospital, City Hospital of Traditional Chinese hospitals have emergency center yesterday, said that admissions of patients with at least two days increased by 50% or more than A while back, most are cardiovascular disease, colds, cough, In particular, more elderly patients. Maternal and Child Health Hospital in the city, Children's Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical sophomore, this two-day admissions for pneumonia in children is also particularly high, many parents of small patients was also delayed when the cold treatment.

Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese director Yang Runhua emergency department introduced the so-called "Autumn freeze" is that after the arrival of autumn, do not immediately drop the temperature slightly increased, clothing, and warm clothing should be gradually add to enhance the ability of the body warm. But the autumn season, the temperature changes, such changeable weather lead to the feeling of Enthusiasm is not conducive to some of the basic disease control, especially those with cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid disease, elderly patients and children, their resistance power is low, if the autumn cold is not appropriate, it will relapse.

Doctors cautioned that health care would like to use frozen autumn the public, should not "freeze only non-mobile", physical exercise should be appropriate to strengthen and promote blood circulation, enhance immunity and metabolic capacity. In addition, if the child had a fever, runny nose, parents do not immediately give the child take the cold medicine, because many common diseases such as pneumonia, allergic rhinitis and other diseases of the early symptoms are very similar with the cold, if not carefully identified, most likely because when the delayed treatment for cold conditions.
(This article Source: Newspaper Network of Nanjing - Nanjing Daily)

http://news.163.com/10/0829/06/6F80FKNE00014AED.html
 
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