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| The hand wash is the form easiest to avoid infections. Know when to do it, how to use well the sanitizador and how to urge the children to learn the habit. |
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| To wash his/her/its hands does not take a lot of effort, but it offers a big reward if it is done as it owes and in frequent form. To adopt this habit can be important to protect his health |
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Washington Hispanic
One of the measurements that the authorities of health recommend to do to avoid to be contagious of the flu H1N1 is to wash his/her/its hands.
Why?, the frequent hand wash is the best way of avoiding to fall ill and to intersperse gérmenes.
The extremities are cleaned only needs soap and waters down and if it uses a sanitizador based on alcohol, the thing is even more simplified.
When to wash his/her/its hands
During the day, the hands touch surfaces, persons greet, they use things and do one more tasks endless number. With this, there grows the risk that some gérmenes deposit the organism if there touch the eyes, nose or mouth. Although it is impossible to support the free hands of gérmenes the whole day, to wash his/her/its them often it can limit the quantity of bacteria, virus and other microbes that are transmitted.
Always wash his/her/its hands before preparing food, eating, treating wounds, touching sick someone and inserting or removing contact glasses, between other tasks.
Also, wash his/her/its hands after preparing food (especially raw meats), to go to the bath, to change a nappy, to touch an animal or toys of pets, to sound the nose, to cough or to sneeze, to treat wounds, to touch a sick person, to dump the garbage or to touch something that is contaminated, like the rag to clean the kitchen or the spotted shoes.
A simple task
The best way of washing his/her/its hands is with water and soap. They be wetted by water running, apply the soap, scrub them up to generating enough froth, do not forget the reverse of the palm and the dolls, and under the fingernails. Them good be rinsed, dry them with a clean towel or with an electrical dryer and of being possible close the key of the water using the towel.
Support in mind that the antibacterial soaps are not more effective in killing gérmenes that the regular soap. To use the antibacterial one even can provoke the development of bacteria that are resistant to the present antimicrobicida in these products, being more difficult to kill these microbes in the future.
Educate his children
Help his children to stay healthy and urge them to have clean hands washing his/her/its them well and in frequent form. For it, they be cleaned along with his children to show them how it is done. To prevent from worrying in this task, teach him that the hands must wash its the same that takes to sing the Happy Birthday twice continued. It can put also small reminders written in the bath and in his pieces so that they bear in mind this task. If his children cannot reach the washbasin, a child sets banquito.
The sanitizadores also can serve for children and adolescents, especially when they do not have water and soap. Make sure that the sanitizador should have dried completely before the child touch something. Keep the container in sure form after using it.
The hands are cleaned well is especially important in the nursery school. The small children are especially in risk of having respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, which can be contagious other members of the family easily. Make sure that his provider of infantile care, like the room cradle, should promote the constant hand cleanliness, not only earlier and after meals. Notice also if there is cleaned the area of change of nappies after every use.
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| Flu H1N1 and asthma |
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| Luis Aguirre, of the Latin Initiative of Health. photo: Felipe Lagos/WH |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
Some of the complications of the influenza H1N1 are the respiratory problems.
In case of the "porcine" flu, the children are a part of one of the high-risk groups for the facility with which they present respiratory complications.
“ The asthma is an illness chronic that affects 20 million persons in the country and about eight million 18-year-old minors. There are many reasons for which someone can endure asthma, and one of them there are the respiratory infections. In fact, when the cases of influenza increase, also those of asthma increase, not only the symptoms but also the visits to the emergency. There are two illnesses that they can attack together’, says the coordinator of the Program of Asthma of the Latin Initiative of Health of the County of Montgomery, Luis Aguirre.
The initiative will be vaccinating persons against the common influenza and the H1N1 this Saturday, the 31st of October 10 from the morning until 2 p.m. in the health center Silver Spring, 8630 Fenton St I tread on 10, Silver Spring, Md 20910. If he wants to know more of the Program of Asthma it can call (240 777 3384
— One of the complications of the flu H1N1 happens when the children cannot breathe.
“ Exactly. The asthma produces an inflammation of the bronchi. The space comes down to the interior of the bronchi very much, along with the presence of snot. If also there is an infection, the inflammation is going to aggravate the asthma picture, therefore they go to promote and there will be a major not alone risk to the health, but to the life of the person”.
— To what must the parents put attention?
“ During the next epoch, at the end of the autumn and the winter beginning, it is necessary to pay attention to the seasonal allergies, especially to the mold and to the autumn pollen. Secondly, also it is necessary to put eye to the respiratory infections. The parents must watch closely the children before the appearance of symptoms of asthma. Second, to vaccinate them. Third to visit his doctors so that they could give them the precise indications to control the asthma, to do an action plan and to prescribe medicines and the vaccines that they need”.
— The children who have asthma must be vaccinated against the flu H1N1.
“ Yes, because they are high-risk groups and must be vaccinated not only for the H1N1. Every person who has asthma must be vaccinated annually against the virus of the seasonal influenza to avoid to have the infection and to prepare the unleashing of the condition”.
— What another recommendation does it have?
“ What more we are interested in is that the dads assume the responsibility of the health of the children. Do not give the responsibility only to the doctors. They are important, it is true, but if the ancestors do not change attitude and do not have finished alertness of the health of his children, this can put them in risk. If the child has a cough that lasts a lot of time or they cannot sleep, they should not spend it that for high, they must consult with his doctor”.
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| Cognitive development of Hispanic children is slower |
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| When it is a question of children of between 24 and 36 months, the Hispanics remain behind as for comprehension of words, verbal expression and imitation of simple tasks with his parents in English or Spanish. foto:AP |
Agencies The Hispanic children of two ó three years of age in the United States develop skills of comprehension of language and reasoning more slowly than the white children, according to two studies of the University of California in Berkeley.
The cognitive development of Hispanic children to 15 months, like understanding what a mother says and beginning using its own gestures and words, is nine as per statistics equal between Hispanic and white children, told Bruce Fuller, a teacher of the university that directed both studies.
Nevertheless, when it is a question of children of between 24 and 36 months, the Hispanics remain behind as for comprehension of words, verbal expression and imitation of simple tasks with his parents in English or Spanish, told the investigator.
Fuller and his team told across a bulletin that the study is based on Hispanic families of few resources, which were compared with white middle class families.
A slower cognitive development owes at low levels of maternal education, large families and absence of educational practices in the hearth, they pointed out the reports.
“ The majority of Hispanic children benefits of having two kind and comprehensive parents at home”, said Fuller. “But the activities of reading and educational games, which are something common in middle class hearths, are less common in poor Hispanic hearths”.
There is no big difference between the health of the mothers' babies of Mexican origin who speak Spanish that English at home and that do not have a high educational level, compared with the babies of not Hispanic hearths of middle class, the University of California said, and these mothers do not also have any more probabilities than the white mothers of giving to the light to premature babies, what it can affect to the cerebral growth of the child.
What explains the slowest cognitive development is the absence of educational practices in the hearth, they make sure the studies.
| Prevent his son from eating too many tidbits with these simple advices. |
| How to celebrate a healthy Halloween |
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| The tidbits can be a threat to the teeth of his child. |
Agencies
The attraction of celebrating the night of witches, or halloween in English, for the children not only is in the disguises, but also in the big quantity of tidbits that they can gather.
Nevertheless, the tidbits mean you threaten not only to the teeth, but also to plant the seed of the excess weight. But the night of witches not necessary it must mean a sugar overdose. The Alliance for a Generation Recovers, delivers five recommendations so that the children avoid to consume too many sweets.
1. - That eat earlier. Make sure that his children should have something in his stomach when they go out to look for tidbits. Give them a fruit so that they do not attack straight ahead the tidbits.
2. - A small bucket Is better. When his child goes out to look for sweets, spend a bag or small container to him. Thus it will not be able to join a big tidbits quantity when it covers the quarter looking for them.
3. - Give them a surprise. When the children come to his house looking for tidbits, they be surprised with snacks that they are healthy. It can serve dried fruits, pretzels or carrots babies.
4.-Sea creative. It is usual sweets are given to the children who go out to look for tidbits in halloween, but this does not have to be the rule. Try giving them crayons, self-adhesive, pencils of colors, drafts, temporary tattooes or chandeliers of gum.
5. - Put attention. When his son comes to the house, checks his bag to make sure that everything what it gathered it should be sure. Remind to him that he must eat his sweets moderately, so that they him last more, and that a stomachache should not be the only thing that he remembers of his halloween.
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