The Covid-19 pandemic was complicated and widespread in many countries, especially China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Iran ... To prevent the spread between people, especially Children, City International Hospital provides instructions on how to prevent corona in children when preparing your kids for going back to school.
Here is a "Guide to prepare your kids for going back to school during Covid-19 outbreak" with the sharing of Ms Le Thi Vy - Deputy Head of Infection Control Department of City International Hospital.
Principles of hand washing and wearing a mask properly?
Ms Le Thi Vy: The fact that the acute respiratory disease caused by corona virus is becoming more and more complicated, up to now, there have been more than 80,000 cases and nearly 3,000 deaths, especially in Wuhan city. Hubei Province, the focus of the epidemic. In Vietnam we have a total of 19 cases of 16 cases and cured 16 cases.
The issue of hand washing and wearing proper masks for children to help parents reassure that is the application of 5 hand washing times and 7-step hand washing process of the Ministry of Health. For young children, when returning to school, we need to understand the following principles:
- Wash hands with antibacterial soap and clean water for at least 20 seconds at times such as before and after playing, using the toilet, before and after eating ...
- Wash your hands after coughing and sneezing, after contact with an infected person's discharge or suspicious signs.
- For schools, wash their hands and wear a mask before preparing food for children.
- WHO and the Ministry of Health recommend that people remember to wash their hands to prevent the disease. Proper handwashing has saved the lives of millions of people around the world for conditions such as diarrhea, respiratory diseases, and even epidemics that are happening during this time.
Parents should guide their children in every way to protect themselves at school and at home.
For those suspected of being infected with Corona virus, how to isolate?
Ms Le Thi Vy: For suspected cases of Covid infection 19 should be identified early, screened immediately. First isolate yourself and then notify your local health authority. Suspected patients need to accurately report the history of movement and symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, fever of 38 degrees, respiratory failure ...
In case of self-isolation at home while waiting for transportation to health facilities, it is necessary to know the precautionary rules to avoid cross-infection to family members. The contact distance for family members should be kept at a safe distance of at least 1 meter to 2 meters and care should not be taken to share personal items. Avoid contact, talk to people around you, wear a mask and wash your hands often so you can prevent yourself before being transferred to a health facility as directed by the Ministry of Health. Currently, we have 4 hospitals that can accept the Covid 19 virus test: Tropical Hospital, City Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital 1, Children's Hospital 2.
When taking an elevator, how do children prevent Covid-19?
Ms Le Thi Vy: The Ministry of Health also recommends avoiding going to crowded places, avoiding close contact with people with respiratory infections such as coughing, sneezing. Children should not be exposed, press the buttons in the elevator and handrails to the door. Parents should always wear a mask for their children, follow their children closely and instruct them regularly, helping them understand the importance of corona virus prevention.
How should children be educated when they return to school during the Covid-19 season?
Ms Le Thi Vy: The school is a crowded place, so the problem of interacting with friends, many parents cannot control it. Therefore, parents need to focus on the education of children so that they know how to protect themselves. In the classroom, you should sit in the right position and observe if you sit at the table with signs of coughing or sneezing, you should avoid letting your fluids not shoot through us. Parents and teachers often tell children to wash their hands. Eating should also focus on eating the main foods or boiling water, providing children with nutritious food to enhance their resistance. Please take note of the child's own water bottle, prepare a tissue. When children cough, sneeze, they should cover the paper towel, if the child can not get the towel in time, they should instruct the elbow to cover to avoid the child's discharge into the body of other children.
Should children wear masks when going to school or not?
Ms Le Thi Vy: We have to focus on hand hygiene and personal hygiene and it is difficult for medical masks to remind children to use properly. Because if you do not use the mask properly the disease is still contagious as usual. Avoid treating medical devices such as panacea that can effectively prevent the need to focus on hand-washing.
For the community, we can use a cloth mask when going to a crowded place. For cloth masks, after use we can wash them and reuse, not necessarily use medical masks. Particularly for N95 respirators, only for those who care for, contact or treat patients. The most important issue is hand hygiene and must always update the knowledge so that each person can protect themselves as well as guide children to protect themselves in the current complicated situation of pandemic.
Ms Le Thi Vy - Deputy Head of Infection Control Department of City International Hospital.
If your case, agency, organization, or school has people with the coronary virus, how should parents protect their children?
Ms Le Thi Vy: If in the case of the agency, or your child's school finds that there is an infection or suspicion of Covid 19 infection, the most important issue is early identification, screening, and isolation immediately. . Then take the staff to the nearest health department for inspection by a medical team. It is important that those exposed to patients with suspected infection also need to be isolated before the test results are available.
Next, blockade of the infected area for disinfection. The covid 19 test then needs to be done for those who have been in contact with an infected person, conducting isolation for 14 days to monitor the progress of their health status.
When greeting, showing affection to ensure disease prevention during the corona outbreak, what should be noted?
Ms Le Thi Vy: After going to work or contacting a crowded place, returning home should follow the principle of bathing, changing clothes clean before holding hands, hugging and kissing children. Because when we go to work in a crowded place, we can not control whether we are infected from others or not, the best way to hygiene personal hygiene. Even so parents do not be too panicky to worry. It is necessary to be calm and proactive in every situation so that epidemic prevention is effective.
Coronavirus prevention skills for children and adults?
Ms Le Thi Vy: In the coming period, the children have to go to school to go back to school, parents need to guide their children how to clean themselves. When your baby coughs or sneezes, cover it with a tissue or elbow to avoid spreading it to others. Parents should guide their children not to put their hands on their faces, not to close their hands, not to drink water, to eat food with their friends. Also, clean your hands before and after eating and after recess.
Should you travel during the Coronavirus outbreak? If forced to go need protection and equipment like?
Ms Le Thi Vy: In fact, there are some places, some countries are relatively safe, have not detected cases of infection, they can also come if necessary. But with the current complicated situation, the best advice is still not to travel. If you need to travel, be sure to bring some personal items such as masks, hand wash, and medicines for the flu. Especially should supplement adequate nutrients to increase body resistance.
Sincerely thank Ms Le Thi Vy
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