9 diseases at risk of outbreak during back-to-school season

(Baonghean.vn) -Risk of urinary tract infections, hand, foot and mouth disease, pink eyeIt is easy to get sick during the back-to-school season, parents need to be highly vigilant to limit infections for their children.

Gastrointestinal diseases

Going to school, children will be exposed to a lot of chalk, blackboards, rags, etc., plus some habits such as sucking fingers, biting nails, picking food, picking nose without washing hands, or washing hands without soap after doing these actions.

Especially when at school there is no close supervision from parents or grandparents like at home, teachers cannot keep an eye on all children 24/7 so children will have an extremely high risk of contracting digestive diseases, especially diarrhea.

Train children to wash their hands with soap before eating and after using the toilet. Illustration photo.

In addition, it is very difficult for parents to control their children's eating habits at school, especially the habit of snacking on sidewalks and roadside stalls. The possibility of children getting food poisoning or digestive disorders due to eating unsanitary food is also very high.

Therefore, children should be fed with enough nutrients such as meat, fish, milk, green vegetables, fruits, beans, eggs,... and drink enough water. Limit children from eating too much food that has been stored for a long time, fast food. Children should be fed a full breakfast to avoid them from eating street snacks. Train children to wash their hands with soap before eating and after going to the toilet.

Risk of urinary tract infection

Urinary tract infections are quite common in children of this age, occurring more in girls than boys, often due to unfamiliar places causing children to hold their urine, drink little water, and not clean themselves properly after urinating. Symptoms of urinary tract infections are often vague and easily overlooked, such as prolonged fever, loss of appetite, or simply not gaining weight.

If you pay attention, you will notice that your child is urinating less, the color of their urine changes, or they have symptoms of intermittent urination, dribbling, or prolonged incontinence. When these signs are detected, parents need to take their child to the hospital for examination and urine testing to diagnose the disease.

Dengue fever

When there are signs of dengue fever, take your child to a medical facility for examination. Illustration photo.

September is also the back-to-school season, coinciding with the peak of dengue fever, so the risk of disease in schools cannot be ignored.

Meanwhile, dengue fever is a disease that has no vaccine, and is easily transmitted through mosquito bites. Not to mention, because there is no long-term immunity, in theory, a person can get one or all four types of dengue fever, so the risk of getting the disease is also higher.

Respiratory tract infections

This is a common disease in young children during the back-to-school season. Changing weather is a factor that makes children susceptible to respiratory diseases, flu, rhinopharyngitis, and pneumonia.

Respiratory diseases are transmitted from sick people to healthy people through close contact, droplets of saliva when talking. Therefore, in a class, even if there is only 1 child with flu, 1 child with viral fever, but not allowing them to stay home from school or isolate them at home, there is a high risk of spreading the disease to their classmates. That is the cause of many cases of collective fever in the same class due to the spread of respiratory diseases.

Therefore, it is very necessary to cover your mouth when coughing and wash your hands regularly to kill viruses and bacteria so as not to spread them to shared objects and other classmates.

Hand, foot and mouth disease

The disease is easily transmitted and if not properly cared for and treated, it will lead to complications and death. Illustrative photo.

Back-to-school season is also the time when hand, foot and mouth disease enters the season. Children may have a mild, transient fever, or a high fever of 39-40^oC, fatigue, loss of appetite, sore throat... and pink rashes about 2mm in size appear in the mouth, palms, soles, sometimes on the buttocks and calves. The disease is easily transmitted into an epidemic, if not properly cared for and treated, it will cause complications, leading to death.

Viral fever

Common symptoms often seen in patients infected with the virus are high fever 39-40^oC accompanied by rash, fatigue, muscle pain, sore throat, loss of appetite... In young children (under 5 years old), when high fever is not reduced promptly, children are susceptible to convulsions. It is worth noting that if a child has a convulsion, if not treated promptly, it can lead to respiratory failure, lack of oxygen to the brain, intellectual impairment or worse, leave serious brain sequelae.

Purulent meningitis

Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent disease in children. Illustration photo.

Purulent meningitis is very dangerous because the symptoms are similar to sore throat, pneumonia, diarrhea, etc., which makes it easy for mothers to confuse them, leading to dangerous complications. Children may have high fever, runny nose, cough, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. The disease can only be effectively treated in the early stages.

Rash fever

If the disease caused by measles virus is called scarlet fever, the disease caused by rubella virus is also called roseola. Roseola is a very contagious disease, especially in collective environments such as nurseries, schools, kindergartens because the disease is transmitted mainly through the respiratory tract when the sick person coughs, sneezes or sneezes, causing tiny droplets to fly out, healthy people will inhale and become infected.

Eye infections

Teach children not to rub their eyes or share personal items (towels, shirts, pillows, etc.) to prevent eye infections. Illustration photo.

Back-to-school season is when pink eye often recurs and is highly contagious. Teach children not to rub their eyes, not to share personal items (towels, shirts, pillows, etc.), and to use saline drops daily.

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