As summer and the end of year festivities approach, virus cases tend to increase. The city of Guarujá, on the coast of São Paulo, for example, recorded more than 2,000 visits for the disease in December. Not even celebrity children escape the dangers of infection: Mavie 1, and David Lucca 12, football player’s heirs Neymar Jr. 32, are sick, as revealed Bruna Biancardi 30, on Friday (3).
The influencer, who is Mavie’s mother, said that she spent New Year’s Eve in Dubai with the little girl and her stepson, and part of the group felt ill. “We arrived in Riyadh and look at the mother’s face, exhausted. How have we started the year? Mavie sick, generally with a virus. I didn’t catch it, thank God, but the doctor is coming here to see her”, he began. “She has had a slight fever since yesterday, Davi also didn’t go on the trip because he was feeling ill, he stayed at the hotel”, he says.
Virosis is an infection caused by a virus that affects the lower digestive tract, that is, the large intestine. The disease leads to symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
The main agents behind viruses are rotavirus and the adenovirus . Transmission can occur from one person to another, especially when there is not correct hand hygiene. Although, The main form of transmission is through ingestion of contaminated food and water .
According to the infectologist and clinical pathologist of the Brazilian Society of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SBPC/ML), Carolina Lázari, viral infections during this period are common and are linked to water contamination and bacterial infections to food, particularly those stored under inadequate refrigeration.
How to take care of children with viruses when traveling?
To the Viruses can be treated with measures to alleviate symptoms . Therefore, even when traveling, like Biancardi’s trip with his family, it is possible to cure the infection.
According to the MSD Manualthe main measures to treat a virus are:
- Rehydration : greater intake of water and, if necessary, serum administered intravenously;
- Antidiarrheal medications and probiotics ;
- Antipyretics to relieve fever, if any;
- Antiemetic to relieve nausea;
- Light eating avoiding fatty foods.
Furthermore, rest is essential for full recovery from the virus. Taking care of your diet and fluid intake is also essential, according to Lázari.
“The ideal is to eat in known places that guarantee the origin and conservation of food, preferably in places that have refrigeration. Food sold by street vendors using Styrofoam, for example, is generally exposed to the sun for a long time, without ice replacement, and tends to remain at temperatures unsuitable for conservation”, warns the specialist.
Other ways to prevent a virus in children include:
- Drink filtered water;
- Avoid closed environments;
- Keep your vaccination card up to date;
- Avoid contact with sick people.
Bruna Biancardi shows photos of a walk in the desert with Mavie; look
This content was originally published in What to do when children catch a virus while traveling, like Mavie and Davi Lucca? on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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