Rotimi Adesanya
Pediatrician and public health.
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An anxious mother prevented her three-year-old son from going to daycare, having had a runny nose since enrolling three weeks ago.
The mother said that since returning to school, she has visited the hospital twice a week. I was confused and did not know how to get out of the swamp.
In her opinion, other children in the center also have colds and could possibly be the cause of the child's infection.
A second incident occurred in a kindergarten. While trying to save a dying child, the owner had for the first time in his life take a commercial motorcycle (Okada) to take a five year old boy who had repeated seizures in the emergency room school.
The school was considered inadequate as there were no first aid materials, school nurses or teachers to ensure student health and certified first aid at school. The school was sued for negligence and suspended by the regulator until the essential requirements (first aid kit, rescue equipment and first aid) were met at the school.
Call the parents, take them with you, get your approval if something goes wrong.
Finding a good daycare for the preschool group can be a difficult task. Keeping children healthy at school is even more difficult, because when they start the daycare, they are greeted by germs that can cause a variety of health problems: earache, runny nose, cough, sore throat, throat, runny nose, fever, vomiting and vomiting Diarrhea, among other things.
Suggestion for supervisor and kindergarten manager.
For a healthy and healthy life of children in daycare, the following is required:
- Assessment of entry by qualified medical personnel: This will identify cases such as communicable diseases and developmental delays. Even disorders such as sickle cell anemia and autism can be detected early.
- Cleaning: The centers must be cleaned daily with safe and non-toxic cleaning agents. Cleaning products should be out of the reach of children. Caregivers should clean the toy every night and disinfect it during the day to prevent the spread of germs.
- Washing Hands: Encourage children to wash their hands during the day. There should also be lessons, demonstrations, songs, practices and hygiene classes. Caregivers must set an example. Babysitter and teachers should wash their hands as often as possible.
- Medication: Strict guidelines must be followed to administer medication to children to ensure that medications are safe and secure. For safety reasons, based on new research on healthy practices in infants and toddlers, a doctor's note for medications, prescription or over-the-counter medications must be given to a child under two years of age.
- The protection of children (safety), video surveillance (hidden cameras) must be an integral part of a good daycare. In this way, daycare caregivers can monitor staff, children, visitors, and parents. Mothers who are suspected of having reacted incorrectly to the child can apply for a reproduction. Store electrical appliances, boilers, pistons and other hot instruments.
- Caring for children should be done with dedicated and caring carers and babysitters trained in child development, early childhood education or related fields. All employees must receive first aid training and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
- Caregivers, babysitters and food vendors should be screened annually for communicable diseases. Among other things, they should do chest x-rays, stool tests, mantoux and typhoid examinations to prevent the spread of communicable diseases to children.
- Parents should leave their children at home if they have the following symptoms: diarrhea (watery bowel movements often more than three times a day), vomiting (after two consecutive attacks), temperature above or at 38 ° C, hearing pain, severe headache or stiff neck, persistent cough, lice, chickenpox, measles, mumps, meningitis, impetigo (skin infection), pneumonia (cough, rapid breathing and fever).
- Day care centers should have a special room that can also serve as a school desk. The services of a school nurse may be required for first aid.
- Harmful practices such as force-feeding, the use of sedatives for children and sucking the nostrils of babies with their mouths should be avoided.
In summary, children in these centers are more likely to get infections than children who do not attend day care. Children who go to day care centers are often surrounded by other children who may be ill. However, the presence of a large number of germs in the centers can improve the immunity of children. Due to the alarming frequency of child abuse in the country, children should be protected from male workers (guardians, security, drivers, etc.) to prevent sexual abuse.
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