caution! Entering the peak period of ‘winter vomiting disease’ outbreak, there is no special medicine!
Recently, disease control departments in regions such as Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, and Guangdong issued warnings that acute infectious diarrhea caused by norovirus has reached its peak.
According to relevant experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus is one of the common pathogens that causes acute gastroenteritis and is highly contagious and has various transmission routes. Acute gastroenteritis due to norovirus can occur all year round, but it occurs most often in fall and winter and is also called ‘winter vomiting disease’. Currently, there are no specific drugs or vaccines available.
Feng Jilbin, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said norovirus is highly contagious and has various transmission routes. It occurs when people eat food or water contaminated with a patient’s feces or vomit, come into contact with a patient’s feces or vomit, or when a patient vomits. It said that inhalation of aerosols or indirect contact with objects or environments contaminated with the patient’s feces or vomit can cause infection.
How to prevent norovirus?
1. Be careful about hand hygiene. Before eating, after defecation, or before processing food, you must wash your hands with soap and running water according to the correct hand washing technique. Hand washing cannot be replaced with disinfectant tissues or non-rinse disinfectants.
2. Pay attention to food and drinking water safety. When processing food, raw and cooked food must be separated. Vegetables and fruits should be washed thoroughly, and food should be cooked well, especially shellfish and seafood. Also, you should not drink bottled water.
3. Contact should be reduced. Patients with acute norovirus gastroenteritis should avoid contact with others while symptoms are present and for 2 to 3 days after symptoms disappear. During the illness and for 2 to 3 days after symptoms disappear, you should avoid preparing food for others and avoiding medical or nursing work.
4. Disinfection must be done well. When vomiting occurs, evacuate concentrated people as soon as possible, ensure good ventilation, and regularly disinfect contaminated environments and items with chlorine-containing disinfectants.
5. Resistance must be improved. To improve the body’s resistance and reduce the risk of infection, you must appropriately arrange work and rest, maintain a reasonable diet, and exercise appropriately.
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