Left cold sky, pediatrics overload

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November 27, 2009

(Labor) - As the weather changes suddenly, for more than a week back, children with respiratory disease admitted at the hospital (BV) in Ho Chi Minh City Asia.
BV specializes in pediatrics is the Children 1 and 2, and respiratory departments are in serious overload ...

Patients with respiratory overflow the corridor BV

Children in BV 1, is 320 cases respiratory inpatient treatment, including almost 40 patients under 12 months old.

According to Dr. Tran Anh Tuan - Dean BV Children's Respiratory 1 - science is only 80 beds and each room layout from 8 to 10 beds, however, due to illness should BV be overcrowded layout is grafted to 20-30 patients receiving treatment. Patients east, plus a family to feed the disease has caused severe overload. Many patients must be outside the corridor, located hammock ... Meanwhile, in BV Nhi Dong 2, to many conditions and medical treatment increase rapidly in the past several days as well as for BV fell into overload.

According to Dr. Trinh Huu Tung - Head of General Planning of the BV, early in November to present, BV has received nearly 1900 cases have respiratory inpatient treatment. On November 24 in the statistics showed that in the science of BV treatment on 200 patients with respiratory insufficiency. Of these, 15 patients have severe complications emergency breathing oxygen.

Dr. Tran Thi Thu Loan - Dean of Respiratory BV - said, respiratory diseases occur mainly in children aged under 5 years old. However, this season move cold weather, children under one year of age are susceptible and severe complications due to weak resistance. If not treated promptly, the disease moved pneumonia is difficult. Therefore, the best prevention is to keep children warm body, increase resistance to all drugs by young people like to take time, and honey proof rules. Also, see if the illness such as high fever, tachypnea, poor feeding, convulsions, then forwarded to the medical facility.
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Re: Left cold sky, pediatrics overload

Cause of death in
November 27, 2009

(Labor) - Patients with acute respiratory infection for children under 5 years of age is the cause of death early - Dr. Nguyen Thanh Van Master warned at the conference scientific lung disease nationwide was opened November 26 at 3 City.
Accordingly, each of VN be 36-45 million infected children with acute respiratory infection. This is a common disease and is also one of the three main causes leading cause of death in children under 5 years old in Vietnam.

Every year, about 4 million children die of acute respiratory infection

According to the WHO, every year about four million children under five die of acute respiratory infection, accounting for 28.5% of the rate of death. In Vietnam, acute respiratory infection is a disease with incidence and death rates highest in all patients, especially in young children.

According to program acute respiratory infections countries, often infected with acute respiratory infection in children under 5 years of age from 4.1 times per child per year. Each year, estimated in Vietnam are about 36-45 million children infected with acute respiratory infection. Pneumonia remains the highest cause of death (31.3%) of the causes of death in children.

Also according to Dr. Nguyen Thanh Van, only 59.1% of mothers recognize the signs of rapid breathing, shortness of breath a sign of pneumonia. Specifically, mothers recognize the signs of danger to bring young children to health facilities in time also accounts for a very little signs of glass packaging (10.4%), leaving nursing (10.3 %), withdrawal concave chest (RLLN) (3.6%), convulsions (9.6%).

Interviewed 4800 mothers with children under age 5 in 8 provinces in the country (Lao Cai, Quang Ninh, Ha Nam, Thanh Hoa, Khanh Hoa, Gia Lai, Binh Phuoc, Tien Giang Province) in 2006 showed that the rate of her parents recognize the signs of serious diseases too low such as convulsions (4.1%); sleep wake cup dry (3.4%) was not drinking, poor feeding (5.0%); breathing whiz is the yen (0.6%). Most mothers (63.4%) selected clinics when children infected with acute respiratory infection and 20.7% choose private health. Particularly newspapers, radio almost can not get to the mothers.

How prevention simply

A child can become infected by breathing 6-8 times per year, and children are respiratory illness accounts for over half of patients in hospitals to examine many. Cause of the disease mainly by virus constitute 60-70%, the virus affinity for respiratory tract, influenza virus, influenza ? measles, Adenovirut ...

Cause the germs usually worse: Contact bridge, pneumococcal, staphylococcus, Hemophilus influenzae, etc. .. if not treated properly and promptly be dangerous to the life of the child. On the other hand, acute respiratory infection is not the high incidence and mortality, but the frequency is higher in sick.

According to some research, on average a child infected 3-5 times a year; such great influence health, learning of the child. acute respiratory infection in children is most common in winter, because cold and humid climate makes the children feel cold easily if good care and early disease detection and timely treatment will reduce the incidence well as the rate of illness.
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