Your doctor will tell you when to worry about your child and request a COVID-19 test.

During a remote conference on Wednesday, Dr. Morozov gave parents advice on what to do if their child gets sick.

Now, according to him, there is concern about COVID-19 and there is no fear of becoming infected with rotavirus. And that shouldn’t be the case.

“If a child is sick, it doesn’t matter what the virus is, if they have a fever, runny nose, cough, diarrhea, feel unwell, they should stay home. It doesn’t matter at all what kind of virus a child brings to school.” V. Morozov emphasized.

It is recommended to monitor the child when pregnant.

Children, like many other viruses, get sick more easily from the coronavirus, according to their doctor. And in this case, it spreads the shorter virus.

The uniqueness of this virus is that the easier it becomes, the shorter it spreads.

“The uniqueness of this virus is that the easier it becomes, the shorter it spreads. The distributor will distribute it asymptomatically for a short time,” explained V. Morozov.

The assumption that children are the “fifth column” that can spread the virus, he says, is incorrect.

“We do not have to close institutions, keep everyone at home just because we are afraid of the coronavirus,” said the doctor.

One person with COVID-19 said they would no longer spread the virus three days after the last symptoms.

“It is considered that three days after the end of symptoms, if you get sick for a week, <...> There may already be a virus that is no longer spreading. These are American recommendations. “I don’t think the United States is worse than Europe because of its epidemiological surveillance,” Morozov said.

If the child becomes ill, the doctor recommends that the parents take a certificate of inability to work and monitor it for one day; maybe it’s just a short-lived cold or maybe a more serious illness.

“It just came to our knowledge then [į ugdymo įstaigą] It can also protect the child from complications that can occur if he does not feel better until noon, or it will be a more serious virus and will spread throughout the educational institution or after the child’s class, ”said the doctor.

“Mom decides recovery”

When can a sick child go to school again? If you did not get seriously ill and did not visit a doctor, according to Morozov, the parents decide.

“The mother and child just go to school when they and the mother decide that the child is healthy. There is no need for a doctor to recover here,” said the doctor.

There is no need for a doctor to recover.

He noted that the law does not stipulate that doctors must in any way confirm a child’s recovery and that it is impossible to verify this if a doctor has not been consulted.

If the child becomes ill, according to Morozov, the child should not be immediately taken and examined for COVID-19. As a result, according to the digital algorithm, the specialists of the mobile points where the COVID-19 investigation is carried out decide.

“The doctor may recommend doing this, but I did not find in the law that we could influence performance. We can recommend it, but only that team decides, ”explained the doctor, adding that it doesn’t make sense to do an investigation in private just because the school requires it.

Morozov drew attention to the symptoms of COVID-19: cough, fever, shortness of breath and sudden odor, loss of taste or weakness. It is said that if a child experiences these symptoms, then COVID-19 testing should be considered and considered.

Young children, according to the doctor, in such a situation may begin to say that they no longer eat, that they have a fever, that they become sluggish, that they stop playing. Mild cough in the morning, according to Morozov, should not yet be considered a threat.

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“A cough that lasts an hour, or three longer coughing spells a day, in which case we should be concerned if our child actually has a COVID-19 infection,” the doctor said.

Then, according to him, one should call the family doctor or the hotline in 1808 and ask what to do.

A more extensive report from Dr. Morozov on prevention to protect your child from COVID-19, in the video below:

Rūta Maceinaitė, Advisor to the Public Health Security Division of the Vilnius Department of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), also participated in the remote conference. She spoke about how COVID-19 is spreading in educational institutions.

According to the counselor, there are currently 32 employees or students of educational institutions in Lithuania, but the spread within them is recorded only in one of them.

R.Maceinaitė assured that also in Europe, the spread of the coronavirus within educational institutions is rarely detected, and the opening of schools is not associated with higher rates of community morbidity.

When children learn from home, parents and teachers experience more stress, the latter have to work from home, which is said to have a negative impact on the economy, so according to the NVSC representative, they should be avoided. school closings.

He proposes not to close schools but to take prevention

“Closing schools should be the last preventive measure,” said R. Maceinaitė, adding that other preventive measures should be taken first in schools: ventilate and clean the facilities, create conditions for hand hygiene, observe the distance, use protective gear, reduce the number of contacts.

School closures should be the last resort.

Also, to ensure that people who experience symptoms of the disease do not enter educational institutions.

According to R.Maceinaitė, these measures will help prevent not only COVID-19, but also other communicable diseases.

Ginreta Megelinskienė, head of the Communicable Disease Management Division of the Vilnius Department of NVSC, emphasized that not all educational institutions are isolated after registering COVID-19 in an educational institution.

“Only people at high risk are isolated (usually students in a class). Once the facilities have been disinfected and properly prepared, children at high risk can continue the educational process as usual,” he said, adding that the examination of children in such a situation is decided by epidemiologists of the NVSC.

According to G. Megelinskienė, children who have had extensive contact with the infected person should be isolated for 14 days.