Cold:
Wash your hands often, Avoid close contact with anyone with a cold
*Source: National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National Institutes of Health
Complications of flu in children may include a series of serious infections such as sinus infection,pneumonia, or ear infection. It is extremely important to contact a healthcare professional if your child'sfever lasts more than three to four days or if you start to notices asthma type symptoms (complains of trouble breathing), ear pain, congestion in the face or head, or persistent cough.As a concern and nurturing parents you may be tempted to reach for over-the-counter medicines to easeyour child's sniffling and constants coughs. Before you give your child the medication, you need to beaware that a recent safety concerns have prompted drug manufacturers to change their labels stating thatcough and cold medicines should NOT be given to children younger than age 4.Every year, thousands of children under age 12 go to emergency rooms after taking over-the-counter coldmedicines. The alarming thing is that most of these children were unsupervised when they took themedicine. In response to safety concerns, the leading manufacturers of children's cough and coldmedicines are voluntarily changing the labels on these products to state that they should
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be used inchildren younger than 4 years of age.There are a few steps that parents can help protect their children by doing the following:
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Throw away old cold and cough medicines labeled for children less than age 4.
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Read the label carefully to see what ingredients are in any medicine you give your child.
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Teach your children the many dangers of taking the medication without the supervision of adult
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Encourage them to wash their hands constantly, especially when they are in schools or at themall
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Teach to wash their hands as soonest they get home from schools and before they eat
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Force them to wash their hand after using the bathroom.
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Teach them to refrain from sharing drinks or food with other people using the same utensil
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Show them how to sanitize their remote controls, cell phone, and toys (must children the flu virusand other diseases when shearing toys, and TV remote controls,)
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Teach them to refrain from using other people’s cell phone. Cell phones are carriers of manydangerous viruses. Read below for more detail about cell phonesShow your children how to sanitize their “cell phones. Cell phones have become one of the carriers thatviruses uses to infect other people. A cell phone needs to be clean at least once a day. There are manycell phone cleaners that are made to sanitize and will not damage your cell phone. Nowadays cell phoneplay a major role on your kid social lifestyles, so they tend to take the phone everywhere and that includesthe bathroom. A recent study shows that the average cell phone has at least 3-5 dangerous viruses thatare known to cause Stomach flu, and influenza. If your child has a cell phone and he/she is constantlygetting sick; you may want to find out when was the last time he/she clean the cell phone.
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