Children infected with helminths often suffer from malnutrition, anemia, iron deficiency, and have many disadvantages in health and physical condition. Therefore, mothers need to be careful when taking care of their children, especially in eating and digesting.
Mother should be careful in preparing and eating for children, especially when eating fresh fruits
1 / Cause children infected with helminths
Not far away, helminths lurk in a variety of foods, everyday foods from vegetables, roots to meat, fish, eggs ... With a little neglect in processing, mothers can accidentally infect babies worms.
Of course, the fault is not entirely mother. Children are very active, so they cannot avoid contact with soil, dirt, foreign objects, and unintentionally infected with worms.
5 dangers are always "stalking" children Every day, in the media, parents must be too familiar with news stories about accidents related to children. Car accident, drowning, cancer or brain-eating amoeba, the most recent is the death of a child caused by an elephant. Danger is always waiting lurking around children. Parents must pay close attention!
2 / Signs children infected with helminths
Children are often thin, sick, pale, with a large belly, slow growth, anorexia , and easy vomiting. In addition, the baby often has abdominal pain around the navel, digestive disorders, loose stools. Mother can detect more signs of infection with worms based on the habit of struggling, scratching the anus due to itching during sleep.
If you do not detect the disease and worm it in time, the consequences are very dangerous. Worms can enter the bile duct, shutting down the bile duct, entering the blood vessels, through the liver through the lungs… The health and physical development of the child is therefore severely affected.
3 / How to prevent helminthiasis?
- Always keep the baby clean. You mustn't forget the principle of washing your hands before eating, both for yourself and your baby.
- Absolutely do not let children eat uncooked food, not boiled water. With fruits and vegetables that can be eaten raw, mothers should soak in salt water several times and peel clean.
- Cut nails and toenails regularly for babies. Limit your baby walking barefoot.
-Do not let your baby crawl, roll, shuffle, crawl on the floor, do not clean it clean.
-Children's clothes should be washed and dried.
Children 2 years of age and older should take deworming bleach every 6 months as directed by your doctor.
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