2023-08-22 02:01:00
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has urged attention to hygiene management of infants as adenovirus infection is prevalent in infants and young children under the age of 6.
[현대건강신문=김형준 기자] Recently, as the obligation to wear masks has been lifted, various respiratory virus infections are spreading easily and quickly, and sore throat patients are rapidly increasing. In particular, adenovirus infection, which can cause flu symptoms, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, vomiting and diarrhea, is prevalent in infants and young children under the age of 6.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has urged attention to hygiene management of infants as adenovirus infection is prevalent in infants and young children under the age of 6.
As a result of sample surveillance by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for nine types of acute respiratory infections that occur frequently in Korea, the number of patients with adenovirus infection is increasing at both the clinic and hospital level.
Adenovirus can cause respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, hemorrhagic cystitis, and meningitis.
In particular, adenovirus infections occur most frequently in infants and young children under the age of 6, and in particular, 0 to 6 years of age account for 89.0% of hospitalized patients, so careful attention to hygiene management of infants and young children is required. It is required.
Adenovirus can be transmitted through respiratory droplets, direct contact with patients, and when changing diapers of infected infants and young children. It is characterized by strong contagiousness to the extent that it can be infected even in water play areas such as the back.
In addition, since it infects the eyes and gastrointestinal tract in addition to the respiratory tract, symptoms similar to a cold such as fever, cough, and runny nose, along with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis with eye discharge or hyperemia, symptoms of gastrointestinal infection such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, and in severe cases, hemorrhagic cystitis It can also develop into symptoms such as pneumonia.
For reference, in the results of sample monitoring at 85 ophthalmology clinics conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis has occurred more than the same period for the past three years, and among them, 60% of patients aged 0 to 6 years old account for 60%.
Ji Young-mi, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, “For infants and toddlers to have a healthy summer, hygiene such as washing hands with soap for at least 30 seconds before and following going out, following changing diapers, following playing in the water, and before cooking food, cough etiquette, and wearing a mask whenever possible when visiting crowded places, etc. It is important to follow the rules,” he said.
In addition, “Education on preventive measures such as proper hand washing at home, not rubbing eyes with unwashed hands, and cough etiquette, and wearing a mask when experiencing respiratory symptoms and sending them to childcare facilities, etc.” was emphasized, and “a place where infants and toddlers live In multi-use facilities such as childcare facilities and kindergartens, it was requested to disinfect the environment using a disinfectant solution of an appropriate concentration* and to conduct careful management such as sufficient ventilation.”
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