Summer - holiday season. We relax and enjoy nature, silence, or, conversely, bustling tourist town. And back home, full of new energy and excitement, and often diseases of travelers ...
Someone is resting at his dacha in the village or at the grandparents who are traveling to the warm seas and picturesque mountains. Anyway, back home it is necessary to hold itself and vzaimoosmotr likely to prevent illness or detect them timely.
It is worth checking at once?
Leather
Baby should be inspected from head to toe, paying particular attention to the folds, the gaps between the fingers of the hands and feet, navel, hairline.
What can be found:
diaper rash as a result of overheating and sitting in the car seat,
abrasions on the uncomfortable clothes and shoes,
traces of insect bites, ticks, animals (jellyfish, sea urchins)
burns from plants (nettle, cow parsnip)
fungal diseases (scab, a fungus of the feet)
foreign body (splinter, seeds, sea urchin needles), parasites (mites)
rashes due to allergies and infections, sunburn.
What you can do yourself: take a picture of the wound site, and then provide first aid.
For example, the splinter can be removed with a sterile needle to pull the tick tweezers treat minor wounds antiseptic etc.
In no case do not lubricate the affected places substances that distort color (brilliant green, fukortsin, blue). Otherwise, if then it will be necessary to see a doctor, it can greatly complicate diagnosis.
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Hair
Carefully inspect the scalp for lice (lice) and herpes.
Also pay attention to the eyebrows, eyelashes, vellus hair on the body, because the pathogenic fungi can affect them as well.
If treatment with herpes should appoint a doctor, the head lice can be controlled independently and with the help of pharmaceutical agents and frequent scallop.
Visible mucous membranes
This refers to the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat and conjunctiva. Normally they look pink and moist.
Redness, raids, wounds, fractures, pain may be the first signs of many infectious and noninfectious diseases.
Clothing, shoes, bags, backpacks and other things
Disassemble things after travel should be the sooner the better. Everything should shake out, wash, wash and thoroughly cleaned with a brush. Indeed, in the folds of clothing may hide insects, mites, on the bottom of the bags and the soles of shoes - the eggs and larvae of parasites or disease-causing microbes. Pavement for the same reason should change after the shower to clean. Reshtky food and drink, which were not used in a way, it is better to throw away.
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We observe and analyze the effects of travel
All the problems that arise after the trips and travel, can be divided in time: those that appear in the the first hours and days after returning home and those that are felt only after a few weeks or even months.
"Early" manifestations
Vomit may be a sign of the start of intestinal infections or food poisoning, heat, motion sickness.
Abdominal pain and diarrhea are also the most likely to indicate poor quality of food or water, I took a child, or some of the many "disease of dirty hands".
Typically, in case of poisoning by use of low-quality product to pass from the first symptoms of 1-2 hours to 1 day, and intestinal infections - from a few hours to 7-10 days.
Fever may be caused by a variety of conditions from the banal overheating to numerous infections. However, if the fever appeared in the early days, the symptoms are easier to relate to travel.
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When to seek medical help?
Actually, the general principles by which to decide to go to the doctor or not known to all parents. If the baby vomited more than 3 times in a row in a short time, and diarrhea for more than two days without a tendency to improve, the fever for more than three days, the symptoms dehydration (little or no urine, dry mucous membranes, lethargy), shortness of breath, coughing, etc., of course, you consult with a specialist. However, pay attention to the additional circumstances that require the mandatory visit to the clinic:
• ill not a single member of the family;
• You have returned from the country, where the flora, fauna, customs and food are quite different;
• There is a strange rash;
• Child and sluggish all the time sleeping, usually your favorite games or cartoons are not interested in it,
• There are jaundice (yellowish coloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, mucous membranes) of any intensity, dark urine, pale stools;
• Blood in the stool, black stool;
• Seizures.
Special cases of ear congestion
There is a very specific condition that can occur during or after travel by plane. This nasal and ear pain associated with the retraction of the eardrum when pressure drops.
Most often it is a passing discomfort, but in some cases the pain can be unbearable, and hearing impairment stored for several weeks. The probability of such a development is higher if a person is on the eve of the flight runny nose. Note that the only indication of this condition in the newborn can be crying and anxiety, and children up to 3-5 years often can not clearly specify the location of the pain, so you will need to determine the reasons for the review ears.
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Late "manifestations of diseases of travelers
In most cases relate to infectious diseases with long incubation period - the time from infection to the onset of symptoms.
Malaria It appears only 8-40 days after the bite of an infected mosquito (depending on the pathogen species). During that time the bite marks have time to disappear, and the patient alone can not associate their symptoms with a holiday in a warmer climate, that was last month. Cheerleaders have bouts of very high fever with chills and profuse sweating, headache, body aches, poor overall health.
Lyme disease carried by ticks, can also begin only after a few weeks or even months after a walk in the woods. Moreover, only one-third of patients diagnosed with Lyme disease directly points to the tick bite recently. This is due not only to human memory characteristics but also to the fact that the agent is also carried tiny translucent larval ticks bite which can be easily overlooked. Should pay attention to the temperature rise and is characterized by large pink spots on the skin, turning in a circle in a few days.
tick borne encephalitis in Ukraine it is extremely rare, only in the Crimea and Volyn, but in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe can pick up this infection. After being bitten by an infected tick or contact with infected animals before the onset of symptoms is usually held from 1 week to 1 month. Therefore, a rare sore can be obtained not only on exotic islands, but also in Poland, Hungary, Germany, Russia and the Baltic countries.
Viral hepatitis A waterborne products by contact occurs everywhere, especially in countries with warm climates, the first symptoms appear only after 2-6 weeks after infection. Therefore, when jaundice occurs, the appearance of urine the color of dark beer and discolored feces should immediately consult your doctor.
Various parasitic diseases, for example, worm infestation can be asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic over a period of months and years. This makes it difficult to diagnose and not to associate painful manifestations with visits to other countries.
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