Protect Your Children from Influenza by Vaccination

<h2 style="color: #008080;">What is Influenza ?</h2>
<p>Influenza in children is acute respiratory tract infections caused by influenza virus. Symptoms might be similar to adults. The disease connects by the contact of breathing which transfers sputum into the air through sneezing or coughing. Furthermore, children can be infected since they are born until the age of 15. After that, the disease severity would become like in adult.</p>
<h2 style="color: #008080;">When You Should See A Doctor ?</h2>
<p>What concern parents is how to distinguish a difference of cold and influenza. To see the difference, it requires observation. Low fever with normal or playful habits might not consider as a sign of the influenza at the same time if there is high fever, kids become inactive avoid eating then you should take them to a hospital especially infant or baby aged younger than 1 month.</p>
<h2 style="color: #008080;">Symptoms and Complications</h2>
<p>Symptoms start from having the fever, coughing, mucus like in a common cold on the other hand, what make it different are high fever, headache, pain, sore throat, being restless along with certain complications for instance seizures, pneumonia, middle ear inflammation or sinusitis. Other complications in the body include encephalitis or cardiac muscle however children with chronic disease such as heart disease or asthma symptoms could be more dangerous than normal kids.</p>
<h2 style="color: #008080;">Diagnosis and Treatment Procedures</h2>
<p><span style="color: #008080;">Step 1:</span> Provide Physical examination, most children come with high fever, coughing, runny nose. Some children may not have problem with respiratory symptoms but vomiting or diarrhea. A doctor will provide a quick diagnosis in one hour with a result.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;">Step 2: </span>There are two types of treatment: palliative treatment providing antipyretic or expectorants to lower body temperature and prevent patients from complications and another way is providing Tamiflu, which has been proven that it can cure illness within 48 hours.</p>
<h2 style="color: #008080;">Hands Watching and Receiving Vaccine can Save You</h2>
<p>The best way to prevent influenza in children is to refrain them from being close to its factors such as avoid going to a place in which people area is congested . Watching hands properly and wearing mask are recommended including receiving a vaccine to block fever from getting higher. Moreover, children aged over 6 months is suggested to have vaccination however, for younger kids those takinging care of are recommended to have the vaccination. Children aged younger than 9 years old (6 months &#8211; 9 years old) In order to stimulate immune system fully during first year of injection, time of injection should be 1 month apart from each other. In addition, children aged over 9 should receive one needle in their first year of injection and then start receiving one needle of the injection in every year.</p>
<h2 style="color: #008080;">How to take care of Children after Seeing a Doctor?</h2>
<p>Children who are infected with influenza should stop going to school and rest at home for about one week to reduce the chance of transmission. During this time, parents should closely monitor their child&#8217;s symptoms if he still has fever, heavy breathing or looking inactive as they may have to visit the doctor for more screening.</p>
<p align="right">Dr. Thanwadee Pongsopa<br />
Pediatrician<br />
Pediatric Center Building B, 2rd Floor Phyathai 2 Hospital<br />
Tel. +662 617-2444 ext. 3219-3220</p>


Are your children having illness due to weather change? Do you know that might not be a reason of such a symptom as that could be the outbreak of respiratory disease called “Influenza”

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