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China - Pneumonia Hits Peak, Mostly Children Affected - Many with high fever, diarrhea, vomiting - in Shanghai

sharon sanders

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Shanghai pediatric hospital treatment record peak this year, pneumonia, asthma, mostly

2010-11-24 03:43 Source: LONDON OF: Chen in to


Are the fault of the air. These days, Xinhua Hospital, Children's Medical Center, Children's Hospital and other pediatric hospital once again turn the "red light": a cold, pneumonia, asthma, diarrhea, child, "turns on stage", the highest peak of this treatment, compared with last year's highest peak than the increase of four or five percent. Several hospitals have opened temporary emergency clinic.

Shanghai pediatrician analysis, a time when autumn and winter seasonal transition, dry weather, has always been the high incidence of respiratory disease, and poor air quality waves. In order to prevent the baby sick, the mother was in Shanghai tricks, and some day open the humidifier, and some plan to send their children to the countryside.

Infusion nurse ran an acupuncture treatment to children

"These days, more than 800 children every day, drip, this morning there is only one infusion of 600 children." Hall of the Shanghai Children's Medical Center Outpatient crowded. Infusion room, crowded with children and parents, the child cries, the parents are mixed together to appease the sound, infusion nurses are running to give children an acupuncture treatment. "Child center" Dr Wang Wei, deputy director of Respiratory frankly, these days pneumonia, acute bronchitis, asthma, particularly children, more than 3,000 outpatients every day there are more than 2600 are children.

"Child center" Respiratory beds just to meet a child with severe pneumonia, pneumonia in children can only be the general out-patient fluids and treatment. To allow more serious condition of children in the first infusion, all doctors once again tightened the infusion Respiratory indications: pneumonia, continuous high fever, diarrhea and dehydration and other symptoms of the child to infusion; asthma is not severe, and patients All the children bronchitis with drug treatment. Even so, the infusion of the child or the wave after wave.

Children's Hospital in Shanghai, 4,000 outpatient visits with one day break, the infusion of small to reach more than 1,000 patients. The end of the night had 22:00 at the latest the day clinic open to 2 am.

Treatment or until next year January peak

Too many patients, and focused on respiratory, gastroenterology, so that several children in hospital feel powerless. "Child center" battle all respiratory physicians and temporarily out of respiratory outpatient clinics will be extended to the original 10 18.

Tactical deployment of the Children's Hospital out-patient end of the night time emergency pressure relief.

Experts told the reporter, this trend likely to continue visiting the peak in January next year.

Hospitals doctor visits result in a long time the corresponding peak. Network, many parents tell kids to see a doctor in the difficult process. A mother to the hospital at nine o'clock registered until the afternoon, only three turn, then come the fluids in the evening. After 12 hours full toss, the mother was holding a sick child home.

Fog will lead to increased sick children cough

Children with respiratory diseases increased, several pediatricians agreed that the air quality. Allergic children, more and more easy to more and more sick children, and air quality are related.

Since November of this year, the number of children with respiratory diseases at once jumped to its highest level in recent years. Especially after heavy fog for several games, many children appear circular cold, cough.

"Make a lot of fog in the children cough recovery of exacerbations." Expert told the reporter, foggy days, more than dust in the air, resulting in increased air pollution, the air contains a large number of small dust particles, can cause people to nose mucosa and significantly reducing the effectiveness of lung filtering. If a long period of polluted environment, can easily lead to pneumonia, asthma, weak immune children first "caught."

So, these days, cold, pneumonia, asthma, children, "turns on stage", the popular kids, followed by diarrhea. Several authoritative pediatrician told reporters that many children are a "high fever, vomiting, diarrhea," trilogy, it often requires more than 10 days to slowly recover.

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