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China - Shandong - Weihai: increase in pediatric patients with gastrointestinal flu

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2013-11-28 07:30:28 Source: ? Weihai Weihai Evening News
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Increase in pediatric patients with gastrointestinal flu

Cold air strikes, significantly more children suffering from colds up. Reporters interviewed found that in children's colds, gastrointestinal flu patients accounted for about one-third.

In the City Hospital pediatric clinic, Lee Teng from being the Son of Man referral. Lee, after the day before yesterday morning, usually lively son was very quiet, followed by the emergence of diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms, and is accompanied by fever, cough. "The day before yesterday when the body temperature, there is 39.7 ℃, which can be frightened us, and quickly took the child to the hospital clinic." Lee said, after a medical examination, the child was suffering from a gastrointestinal flu, after two days of infusion treatment, the temperature was falling down.

According to Women and Children's Hospital pediatric medicine doctors introduced, gastrointestinal flu is a respiratory infection caused by gastrointestinal virus, also belongs to a flu. Low winter temperatures, rotavirus and other gastrointestinal virus more active, easily damaged child abuse and gastrointestinal tract, resulting in gastrointestinal flu. "Kids these days a lot more colds, flu accounts for about one-third of gastrointestinal flu patients." Doctors said.

Doctors remind everyone gastrointestinal flu does not belong to a bacterial infection, antibiotics can not be abused cold medicine treatment. The key to prevention is usually better to talk about hygiene, washing hands before meals and logistics; not to crowded public places; fruits and other foods to be cleaned before eating, good indoor ventilation. Once the gastrointestinal flu symptoms, to timely treatment, so as not to cause viral myocarditis, encephalitis. (Reporter Song Wei)

Source: ? Weihai Weihai Evening News Edit: Small wind

http://www.whnews.cn/news/node/2013-11/28/content_5864410.htm
 
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