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Tips Dr. Kamarouski: how to prevent influenza in the body

to talk about this chapter of the book by the famous pediatrician Eugene Kamarouski “ARI: A guide for savvy parents,” published at “Eksmo»

1. Airborne route of infection

SARS patient should be ill at home!

This is an obvious rule, which is constantly violated writes Dr. Komorowski. Violated always and everywhere – and adults and children throughout the world. Snotty children go to kindergarten (no one to stay at home) and school (now the control of mathematics). Chihana mom goes to work. It can not go, because it works the head and she now receive visitors. Coughing dad goes on a mission … Even our district pediatrician Anna runs home with a stuffy nose. What to do if there’s no one to run? What else should the patient? Cover your mouth and nose with a handkerchief when coughing, sneezing and blowing noses, try not to cry, no sputter, no hugging and kissing – all of these recommendations, it would seem, is so well known, available and obviously that did not require detailed justification. Another issue is that to get people en masse to make due – almost not real. All that we can – from childhood cram our children answers to obvious questions about what is good and what is bad. And let the list of good cop-bad includes not only the global “Thou shalt not kill”, “Thou shalt not steal”, “Do not lie”, “love …», but also private, primitive and practical” sit at home ” “Do not forget the handkerchief,” her mouth “,” do not yell, “breathe in the side”, “put on a mask »…

By the way , about “put on a mask. Gauze, cotton-gauze, as well as modern disposable mask of non-woven materials – one of the most common ways of preventing SARS. In the season of SARS in hospitals introduced the so-called. “mask mode”: medical staff wears masks, without masks, visitors do not miss, posted schedules – when the masks must be changed.

If you understand the size of viruses, it is easy to guess that no, even the tightest mask to stop the virus is impossible. Then the question: why did the mask for? The fact that viruses in large numbers are in the mucus and sputum. That is a drop of mucus and sputum, a few meters fluttering around the patient when speaking, coughing, sneezing and blowing noses are the main source of infection, first, to nearby humans and, secondly – household items.

So the main task of the mask – to detain these drops, and even to some extent, limit the penetration of the virus in the environment. It is clear that the mask did not change fundamentally, the patient continues to breathe, and most ordinary breathing is enough to make the air containing the virus and exhaled by a person became inhaled air for another person.

In addition, a mask very quickly saturated with phlegm and actually becomes a reservoir of viruses. Therefore masks recommend intensive proglazhivat iron and change, at least within 4 hours.

Once again, that given the size of viruses and the size of “holes” in the gauze mask, no mask can not prevent getting the virus in the air in the respiratory tract of healthy people. That is, the mask is not needed healthy! They put the sick, and they (the mask) only ineffective remedy is healthy.

probability of contracting the virus through contact with largely associated with the two most important parameters:

– The concentration of virus in the air.

– The activity of viruses.

Both These parameters thus fundamentally related to the characteristics of the air we breathe.

concentration and activity of viruses determined by the Central epidemiological principles SARS PREVENTION: viral particles for hours and days remain active in the dusty, dry, warm and still air, and almost instantly killed in the air clean, cool, moist and moving.

Basic, Applied, practical conclusion from this situation is that the probability of infection intimately connected with the intensity of air in the room. The more intense the air, the lower the concentration of viruses in the air, the less chance of infection.

It is with this in many ways related to the fact that the SARS season ends when all the houses open windows and air vents.

high concentration of virus in the air can be created exclusively on the premises. Outdoors it is practically impossible, so get while walking can only kissing, embracing with the patient.

Why is bad weather, more children ill with SARS? It is not because the wind, rain and cold! Just in bad weather, children are walking less and communicate more with people like it on the premises!

Recommendations for the practical realization of the main epidemiological principles to prevent SARS.

• Frequent and regular airing of the premises as a means of prevention – better all the masks and all drugs combined.

•  airing desirable when all are healthy, and always – even when Someone in the house is sick.

• The more children in the room – the more often and more intensively it should be aired.

• Elementary and obvious steps in children’s institutions: come on walk – airy rooms of the kindergarten, school bell rang – all quickly went into the corridor and ventilate the room class.

Another way to reduce the concentration of virus in the accommodation – it is processing air through exposure to, for example, the devastating virus with ultraviolet rays (kvartsevanie, etc.).

Unfortunately, the effectiveness of these procedures is low. You can kill the virus in the air, but the source and reservoir of infection remains a sick man. Should he go into the room – and a very short time once again filled the air viruses.

2. Contact the path of infection

We already wrote about that settled on the household items and dried mucus droplets virus particles can remain active for several days. Besides viruses in large numbers are in the hands of the sick, so the handshake, paper money, door handles, valves in the bathroom, etc. – a wonderful way to contact infection.

Ten handshakes – and your hands are guaranteed to have the virus. It remains only to scratch your nose.

Kindergarten. Ten children, one with a runny nose, happily crawling on a carpet. In turn fed the same teddy bear. Needless to say that the aforementioned teddy bear and a carpet – drives viruses and the real source of contact infection.

Since the mechanisms of contact spread of viruses are obvious, obvious, and ways to prevent:

•  frequent wet cleaning: all that you can wash and wipe with a damp cloth, – regularly wash and scrub;

•  regular wiping with a using a disinfectant solution contact common items use – the above-mentioned door handles, etc.;

•  handwashing – frequent and thorough;

•  regular scrubbing wet hygienic and disinfectant wipes;

•  in institutions make every effort to ensure that children’s use of shared objects (eg toys) can be subjected to wet hygienic processing.

3. Waterway infection

Characteristic of a very few viruses, the most typical – adenovirus. Specific mom and dad do not have the opportunity to influence the way the treated water in the basin. That is, prevention of infection by water – a water park of workers and the control of sanitary-epidemiological services. All that can be ordinary amateur public bathing – to know that the massive water treatments – an additional risk factor. This does not regarded as a call not to visit swimming pools. But if your city flash adenoviral infection, so “find” it, swimming is much easier than skating.

4. Intestinal infection Path

Enteroviruses – a very common cause of acute respiratory viral infection with fecal-oral mode of transmission. Classic “disease of dirty hands” with the standard and obvious way of prevention – washing hands, utensils separate order in the toilets.

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