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Beware summer child "freezing" the disease

Published: 2013 Player年06月23日20:49
Source: Xinhua

Original title: Beware kids summer "freezing" the disease
　　
Chongqing Xinhua Reuters June 23 (Reporter Mu Xu) In recent days, Chongqing temperature maintained at 40 degrees Celsius, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University has a lot of admissions due to too cold in the summer heat and "freeze out" sick children.
　　
Hospital outpatient department director Professor Xiong Wan introduction, kids in the summer eat more cold food, very easy to cause diarrhea. Zuozhen when she recently encountered such a situation: a 5-year-old boy was too hot after playing in the district, home to breath eat five ice cream, resulting in diarrhea to collapse.
　　
Professor Xiong Wan reminder, hot weather, with particular attention to eating clean and refrain from eating raw food, especially street stalls selling food, because no heat in the cooling measures street stalls, food easily degenerate, a child after eating is apt to cause diarrhea. Children in the consumption of raw rotten food, once you feel unwell, to timely treatment.
　　
Hard blowing air is apt to cause children to respiratory infections. Professor Xiong Wan introduction, four-year-old patient stuff because blowing air and cause upper respiratory infection. It turned out that stuff parents particularly sensitive to heat, air conditioning all day open house doors and windows closed, and are generally maintained at 20 degrees Celsius, cold wind blowing and sometimes even directly at him.
　　
Professor Xiong Wan reminded, many children with upper respiratory tract infections are mostly related to air conditioning, a child already low resistance, coupled with poor self-control, not the air conditioning blowing directly into the air-conditioned room is heavily traveled, so it is prone to fever, upper respiratory tract infection , tonsil inflammation, cough, runny nose, sinusitis and other illnesses.
　　
She suggested that the best summer air temperature 27 to 28 degrees Celsius, the best place to sleep basin of water to keep the interior moist, usually to regular window ventilation. In addition, some elderly people found that children with mild symptoms such as fever, you scared air conditioning, fans are not used, not knowing that the ambient temperature is too high, it will lead to child's temperature fever, decreased resistance exacerbations.

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