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CALL TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS LIKE THE FLU
A few weeks of summer, multiply pneumonia
Publication Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010
In hospitals abound consultations respiratory symptoms. Some have already taken preventive measures. Although doctors are clear that this is not a serious situation, admit that the number of patients with these diseases is unusual for this time of year.
Every day, in hospitals serve patients by respiratory symptoms.
THE DATA
To avoid infections, doctors recommend frequent hand washing, sneeze into your elbow and avoid contact with others at school or work.
The cases of pneumonia and other respiratory symptoms are multiplying in recent weeks and from hospitals recommend avoiding infections, applying the precautionary measures similar to those implemented during the epidemic of influenza A (H1N1). But consider that it is not a serious, admit that it is striking how many patients with these diseases for this time of year.
Although only few weeks before the start of summer, local health centers multiply consultations by different diseases in the respiratory system. One of them, pneumonia, even causes the hospitalization of some patients.
In the hospital, "J. R. Vidal was seen in recent weeks an increase in the number of respiratory care of. "The consultations went up, but do not really know what is," he admitted to El Litoral associate director of the clinic, Dora Mondaini.
In this regard, one of the specialists in pulmonology who serves on the Vidal, Rocio Cardozo explained to El Litoral that many of the consultations are cases of pneumonia. "Some will serve in office and others require hospitalization," he said.
"What is striking is not the number of cases but the time of year," said the doctor. As noted, the peaks of respiratory cases occur during the winter months and in some, but not so near the end of the year.
In this situation, from the direction of Vidal instructed the heads of each department to show the utmost precautions to avoid infections. "We try to organize and unify the precaution so that the situation does not deteriorate," explained Mondaini.
Similarly, Cardozo said that it is not necessary to issue a warning. "You just have to take precautions that were learned with Influenza A, such as frequent hand washing, sneeze into the elbow crease, consult the doctor and the patient isolate infected the workplace or school," he stressed. In this sense, the pulmonologist recalled that in a few days after school and noted this as a favorable factor, since it prevents the spread of the virus in schools and colleges.
CALL TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS LIKE THE FLU
A few weeks of summer, multiply pneumonia
Publication Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010
In hospitals abound consultations respiratory symptoms. Some have already taken preventive measures. Although doctors are clear that this is not a serious situation, admit that the number of patients with these diseases is unusual for this time of year.
Every day, in hospitals serve patients by respiratory symptoms.
THE DATA
To avoid infections, doctors recommend frequent hand washing, sneeze into your elbow and avoid contact with others at school or work.
The cases of pneumonia and other respiratory symptoms are multiplying in recent weeks and from hospitals recommend avoiding infections, applying the precautionary measures similar to those implemented during the epidemic of influenza A (H1N1). But consider that it is not a serious, admit that it is striking how many patients with these diseases for this time of year.
Although only few weeks before the start of summer, local health centers multiply consultations by different diseases in the respiratory system. One of them, pneumonia, even causes the hospitalization of some patients.
In the hospital, "J. R. Vidal was seen in recent weeks an increase in the number of respiratory care of. "The consultations went up, but do not really know what is," he admitted to El Litoral associate director of the clinic, Dora Mondaini.
In this regard, one of the specialists in pulmonology who serves on the Vidal, Rocio Cardozo explained to El Litoral that many of the consultations are cases of pneumonia. "Some will serve in office and others require hospitalization," he said.
"What is striking is not the number of cases but the time of year," said the doctor. As noted, the peaks of respiratory cases occur during the winter months and in some, but not so near the end of the year.
In this situation, from the direction of Vidal instructed the heads of each department to show the utmost precautions to avoid infections. "We try to organize and unify the precaution so that the situation does not deteriorate," explained Mondaini.
Similarly, Cardozo said that it is not necessary to issue a warning. "You just have to take precautions that were learned with Influenza A, such as frequent hand washing, sneeze into the elbow crease, consult the doctor and the patient isolate infected the workplace or school," he stressed. In this sense, the pulmonologist recalled that in a few days after school and noted this as a favorable factor, since it prevents the spread of the virus in schools and colleges.