Dr. Kodua, a paediatrician with the Healthy Kids Foundation has stated that children ages 6 months to 5 years with severe fever can easily get seizures. She stated that there has been a surge in diarrhoea, malaria, and cold cases amongst school children.
She advised parents with children who had fever, malaria, or cold to first give them paracetamol or to wipe their children’s bodies with lukewarm water in order to help reduce the body temperature. ORS can be added to the medication if the child passes a watery stool to replace body fluids. She disclosed that the spread of diseases amongst kids is a result of them sharing a lot of stuff together.
She indicated that it was not a shock to have 18% of children between 0-15 testing positive for COVID-19 even though severe symptoms were not recorded. She said parents should not send their children to school when they are not well to minimize the spread of infection. She also urged parents to feed their children well-balanced diets and lots of fruits.
SOURCE: https://3news.com/covid-19-in-children-feed-them-with-fruits-high-in-vitamin-c-well-balance-diets-pediatrician/
DATE: 20th June, 2022
