Andrada went on vacation in Egypt with the small child, 3 years old. After a few days the nightmare began: “He took Salmonela, Adenovirus and an unknown virus. I thought I was losing it.”
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A visit to the cabinet of an epidemiologist, a travel medicine specialist, can help us prevent the inconvenience of holidays in exotic places with children. A mother tells for the site everything about Mothers Adventure with the little one in Egypt.
“The problems began with high fever, over 40 degrees and many diarrheal chairs, over 30 aqueous chairs a day. We need to resort to local medical services for fear of dehydration, especially taking into account his age – he was 3 years old. Three days I stayed in the hospital, on infusions, then another week in the country,”
Following the analyzes performed in the country at the Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases “Dr. Victor Babeș”, where he had to stay for a week, it turned out that the little Salmonela, Candida, an adenovirus and another unknown virus. “Upon arrival in the country, the child was as stabilized as possible, but one day after hospitalization there was a rash throughout the body. It was creepy, I thought I was losing it,” remembers his mother.
Preparations for exotic holidays
When you decide to go on vacation in exotic places with children you need to consider additional prevention measures to prevent disease. Beyond the travel alerts announced on various government sites or on the World Health Organization, a visit to an epidemiologist with specialized in specialized Travel Medicine. Yes, it exists in Romania. Dr. Tatiana Dejoianu, a specialist infectious diseases, is such a doctor with over -specialization in travel medicine.
From the head of the place, the specialist doctor pointed out that there are no areas with high, medium or low health risk. “Whenever we leave the area of daily life, our comfort zone, we encounter new challenges. Especially when we travel accompanied by the little ones. Intercontinental travel, because of the time on the road, climate, flora, fauna, cultural habits, socio -economic levels, developing the medical sector.”
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