Although in Contramaestre, a municipality in eastern Cuba, there are currently no problems with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), according to Maikel Ricardo Sánchez, epidemiologist at the Territorial Hygiene Unit, it is necessary to reinforce prevention in the institutional and family environment, especially with children under two years of age.
Respiratory infections are many and are easily transmitted from one person to another through the droplets expelled when talking, coughing or sneezing. These infectious agents tend to spread rapidly, generating clinical pictures of greater or lesser intensity.
Preventing respiratory infections in kids
Any infant with a clinical picture characterized by a runny nose, sneezing, coughing, general malaise and fever, among other manifestations, should be treated in medical institutions, since this is a population group that, due to its age, has not received the anti- Covid vaccination schedule.
The most important thing, pointed out epidemiologist Maikel Ricardo, is to comply with the hygienic-sanitary measures established and known by the population to prevent ARI.
He also reminded that in case of these symptoms, children’s circles, educational and labor centers cannot be attended, and the administrative departments have the obligation to enforce this sanitary regulation.
