Original title: Youth with information | The high incidence of influenza and the increase in severely ill children, doctors recommend "welding the mask on the mouth"

China Youth Daily Client Shanghai, January 4 (China Youth Daily·China Youth Network reporter Wang Yejie) At 23:45 on the night of January 3, Wang Chengdong, a pediatric surgeon at Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, updated a video on his personal social media account saying that five children have been sent to the rescue room because of the flu. In the video, Wang Chengdong called on parents and children to "weld masks on their mouths" in the near future and "welcome masks when going out."

Recently, it has entered the annual high-incidence period, with viral and bacterial infections such as influenza A, influenza B, adenovirus, mycoplasma and other viruses and bacterial infections. At 9:50 am on January 4, the real-time data of the patient service number of the Shanghai Children's Medical Center affiliated to the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiaotong University showed that 400 people were waiting in front of the pediatric general number, 81 people were waiting in the pediatric fever number, and 101 people were waiting in the pediatric emergency room. At around 2 a.m. on January 2, the reporter saw at the hospital that 127 people were waiting in line in front of the emergency department of the pediatric department.

Wang Chengdong introduced that the current incidence of critically ill children is very similar. "The temperature soared to 39 degrees and 40 degrees in the first two days of fever, and then he became listless and breathing rapidly, almost all of them were influenza A."

Wang Chengdong particularly emphasized, "Influenza A is not an ordinary cold, ignoring the influenza A is a harm to life." He introduced that in fact, influenza A has experienced several pandemics in history, which can be traced back to 1918. "The virus of influenza A will continue to mutate, and it will mutate every year. This year you have to pass or get vaccinated and have antibodies in your body, but the next year it mutates, and your body's antibodies can't remember the appearance of influenza A, and you will still get influenza A."

Wang Chengdong said that the complications of influenza A are very serious, and children, the elderly, and pregnant women are all high-risk groups. "Once the infection is not treated in time, it will affect your brain, and it may also be combined with bacterial infections and produce sepsis."

Wang Chengdong specifically reminds that children must seek medical treatment in time when they encounter the following three situations:

First, their breathing becomes particularly rapid. "It feels like he can't breathe, which means his lung function is actually very poor," said Wang Chengdong.