Experts suggest that the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in key populations and ins

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-01-31

Recently, the incidence of respiratory diseases in winter is still high. During the New Year's Day holiday, the flow of people increases, and the risk of respiratory disease infection increases. Experts suggest that key places such as elderly care, childcare and social welfare institutions and places with closed spaces should do a good job in personal protection, health monitoring, ventilation and disinfection, and access management. At the same time, we should further strengthen the management of health services for key populations such as the elderly, children, pregnant women, and patients with chronic underlying diseases, do a good job in daily health monitoring, and identify and intervene early when risks occur.

During the New Year's Day and Spring Festival holidays, the flow of people will increase, and the epidemic of the new crown epidemic and other respiratory infectious diseases may rise, increasing the risk of severe illness and death of vulnerable people such as the elderly and patients with chronic underlying diseases, so it is necessary to prepare in advance. Peng Zhibin, director of the Department of Respiratory Infectious Diseases of the Department of Infectious Disease Management of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "We will continue to pay attention to the changes in the epidemic situation and epidemic strains abroad, and conduct timely monitoring, early warning and risk assessment." ”

Experts suggest that indoor public places and vehicles are usually confined and densely populated, and are the key places for the prevention and control of respiratory infectious diseases. It is necessary to do a good job of cleaning, disinfection, ventilation and ventilation in indoor public places and vehiclesWhen the public goes to indoor public places or takes public transportation, they should wear masks scientifically, wash their hands or disinfect their hands in a timely manner.

Li Banghua, deputy director of the Department of Pension Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that the Ministry of Civil Affairs has actively prepared for the transition of the prevention and control mechanism to the emergency and keep the green channel for medical treatment in elderly care institutions unimpededGuide elderly care institutions that provide integrated medical and elderly care services to do a good job of zoning management to prevent cross-infection;Do a good job in the internal prevention and control of elderly care institutions, staff do not go to work with illness, carry out health monitoring of the elderly living in the hospital every day, and send the elderly who are found to be infected with respiratory diseases to the hospital in a timely manner.

Wang Dayan, director of the National Influenza Center of the Institute of Viral Diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, reminded that high-risk groups such as the elderly, children, pregnant women, and patients with chronic diseases should avoid going to crowded public places as much as possible. If you have symptoms of respiratory infection such as fever and cough, you should rest at home. If the symptoms are severe, you should take personal protection and go to the hospital as soon as possible.

Children's health affects the hearts of families and society. In response to the general concern of parents about children's home care and medication, Liu Tao, deputy chief physician of the general medicine department of Gumei Community Health Service Center in Minhang District, Shanghai, said that when a child has a fever, parents can first physically cool their children, such as loosening clothes and bedding in a warm indoor environment in winter, wiping the neck and limbs with warm water, applying cold compresses to the forehead, etc., and paying attention to replenishing water. In terms of medication mode, scientific judgment and selection should be made in combination with the child's condition and course of disease.

In terms of traditional Chinese medicine health care, how to enhance the physical fitness of key groups and prevent respiratory diseases?Zhang Zhongde, president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that people such as the elderly, those with underlying diseases, tumor radiotherapy and chemotherapy, pregnancy and childbirth, the third trimester of pregnancy and young children can support healthy qi and resist wind, cold and dry fire in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation.

In winter, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, so pay attention to changing clothes in time. Eat plenty of warm foods and avoid hot, greasy foods. If possible, the home should be ventilated regularly. Use traditional Chinese medicine to assist**, such as massaging Zusanli, lung Yu acupoint, and soaking feet with ginger and cinnamon branches. Zhang Zhongde suggested that at the same time, stick to moderate exercise and avoid sweating.

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