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Pneumonia, Mengincar Anak and pre-schoolers, Sepelekan Demam Buat this page in the format of PDF Cetak this page sent this page through E-mail
on Monday, on May 21 2007
Surabaya - Surya
Demam to alarm for the body that signalled was that did not freeze.
When the fever came to the child necessarily parents were on the alert.
The child, especially pre-schoolers, still could not say the feeling was sick that was suffered.
They usually only could inform his body was sick.
The temperature that increased was the body method informed the alarm.
The increase in this temperature better be monitored in order to be able to be handled quickly.
His fever could be reduced with medicine penurun hot.
?Tetapi this only reduced the temperature of the body and not eradicated the source masalah,? said Dr M Connie Untario SpA, on Saturday (19/5).
Because of that when the fever began to not rise and descend in three days, better the child immediately received the medical maintenance.
The deadline of three today becomes shorter when the appearance child was hurt, increasingly tired, and did not want to eat.
No need to be waiting up until three days, the child must be immediately checked.
The temperature of the normal body revolved 36.5 Celcius levels until 37.2 Celcius levels.
When the temperature rose, immediately gave antipiretik to reduce the temperature of the body.
But could the temperature more than 38 Celcius levels, vigilance must be increased.
?Bolehlah three days remained with antipiretik but continue to parents must waspada,? more Connie.
Started from the fever also that became the characteristics of the sign of pneumonia of the beginning.
The illness resulting from the bacteria pneumokokus this normally was found to the area of the nose and the throat.
In the condition for the healthy body, this bacteria will not attack.
But when the condition for the body was descending, this bacteria found it easy prepared.
The baby as far as the age child 2 years that the condition for his health was not yet strong, to this bacterial target.
Pneumokokus according to Connie was the Invasive Pneumococcal Disease cause bacteria (IPD).
IPD was a group of illness that consisted of the inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), the inflammation of the cerebral membrane (meningitis), the blood infection (bakteremia), and continuation of the blood infection that caused shock as well as the failure of the function of the body organ (sepsis).
?Semua him could cause the defect in fact kematian,? said Connie.
The data from Unicef and WHO mentioned, pneumonia attacked more than 2 million children in the world each year.
Moreover for pre-schoolers, the illness because of this bacteria cruelly became one of the causes from every time five deaths.
Two world agencies collected data on 15 countries that had the case of the death resulting from high pneumonia.
It was not half-hearted, three perempat the child from the countries suffered pneumonia.
India became the country with the highest case.
Indonesia occupied the sixth position with the number of sufferers 6 million children.
IPD found it easy to spread through the sprinkling of saliva (air) when sneezing, the cough, or spoke.
This condition will be aggravated with the solid environment occupants, the change in the weather, the rain season, and them who suffered the upper respiratory tract infection (ISPA).
The fever shivered, chest pain when breathing, the cough spat, the fast pulse, weak, limp, and breathless became the sign of early IPD.
Sepintas this sign resembled the influenza illness or the inflammation.
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