Over 120 children from Moldovan capital hospitalized with acute diarrheal diseases in last week
13:13 | 29.05.2018 Category: Social
Chisinau, 29 May /MOLDPRES/ - A number of 121 children from the Chisinau municipality have been hospitalized with acute diarrheal diseases at infectious medical institutions.
A physician epidemiologist from the Chisinau municipal public health centre, Zinaida Covric, has said that the number of cases of infectious diseases increased against the weeks before. On 21-27 May, public medical and sanitary institutions declared 186 cases of acute diarrheal diseases at the Chisinau-based Public Health Centre, - by 14 cases more against the same period of 2017.
Most cases of acute diarrheal infections were recorded among children of pre-school age – 131 cases, or 70.43 per cent of their total number. The rate of hospitalization stood at 65.05 per cent.
According to Covric, 56 sporadic cases of acute diarrheal diseases were registered among children attending kindergartens.
Data by the Public Health Centre shows that the situation in terms of infection with acute diarrheal diseases in Moldova is regarded as unfriendly. About 20,000 cases of diseases are recorded annually, including tens of deaths in children under the age of five years.
Zinaida Covric noted that cholera, dysentery, rotavirus infections, salmonellosis, typhoid fever, yersiniosis are included in the group of acute diarrheal diseases.
The clinic symptoms of this group of infections are different; yet, they trigger high fever up to 40 C degrees, stomachache, nausea, vomiting, general weakness, headache. In children, especially small children up to one year of age, the clinic symptoms are developing quicker than in adults and the health condition may worsen in a short time.
In the case of appearance of clinic symptoms of acute diarrheal diseases, self-treatment is banned, especially when these symptoms are developing in children. The basic recommendation is urgent consulting of a family physician with the prescribing of the adequate treatment.
(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)
