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Pediatrician Mihai Craiu warns about a new phenomenon that appears in hospitals: the number of children infected by coronavirus is increasing. He says that some of these children are infected at home, from their parents, and the situation is even more dangerous for those who suffer from other diseases (obesity, chronic diseases). The doctor advises parents not to treat their children without the doctor’s advice.
“The problem is that now children who live alone at home have started to get sick. Children who also have comorbidities – a neurological disease, obesity, asthma, who take cytostatics. Those are exactly the children who take (infection – not) from their parents”. , from their relatives, because transmission between the community is very high and adults do not follow the rules. I mean children who do not leave home, do not go to school, are not exposed to anything. (…) The message is one of accountability: if we don’t care, and we don’t believe, and we are covid-skeptical with ourselves, we have to think about children as much as about grandparents and take the necessary measures, “said the Saturday Dr. Mihai Craiu, in Digi24.
The doctor says that these chronically ill children can develop a severe form of Covid-19, and the danger is that there are fewer places for children than for adults in specialized Covid hospitals, where there is all the necessary equipment to care for them. severe cases.
“That is why we have to take care of our sick children, so that we do not end up in the situation of adults,” added Dr. Craiu.
All children are examined in the hospital.
It showed that in pediatric hospitals all children are tested for Covid and if the test is positive the youngest are transferred to the Matei Balş Hospital, where children with Covid are also treated.
Regarding the treatment of children, Dr. Craiu points out that parents should not administer it without the doctor’s advice.
“The vast majority of children who take light forms only need antipyretics. Parents, before they panic, if they feel the need to speak to someone qualified, call their family doctor, call those toll-free numbers and keep up the calm., because as long as there are no clinical signs, children do not need preventive medication with various types of antibiotics – definitely in a viral disease antibiotics do not help in any case in self-medication, if the doctor writes them, yes. If it worsens, in the hospital, ”Mihai Craiu also declared.
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