CARE FOR THEIR HEALTH TOO
- The HINDU – 11.06.2016
Children tend to
contract infections from school, says experts
School season has begun and as thousands of children put on their school
uniforms and venture forth, paediatricians say parents should take care to
ensure their children stay healthy.
Diarrhoea, urinary infections and respiratory issues are some of the
health problems that children could face, said Janani Sankar, Kanchi Kamakoti
Childs Trust Hospital.
Hygiene and diet have to be taken care of to prevent infections, she
said. “We are already seeing some cases of diarrhoea. Their food and water must
be clean,” she said.
“Maintaining cleanliness is most important,” said Padma Appaji,
consultant paediatrician, Vijaya Group of Hospitals. Diet is also crucial, said
Dr. Appaji, and parents should ensure children are drinking enough liquids.
“Breakfast should be carbohydrate-rich but not fatty. Children should
have at least one fruit a day,” she said. As there was a likelihood of picking
up infections from other children, a balanced diet would boost immunity.
Urinary infections could be caused by children not using the toilet in
school, but parents must encourage them to do so, said Dr. Sankar.
Checking childhood
blindness
It may now seem normal
to teach children how to use computers even before they start pre-school. But
health educators disagree. They say it is unhealthy to allow a child to look at
the computer screen or use the cell phone to play games for long. The estimated
prevalence of childhood blindness/low vision in the country is 0.8 per
thousand.
While computer vision
syndrome is a new problem faced by children, refractive error, another easily
correctable disorder, continues to be one of the major causes of childhood
blindness.
The aim of the
National Programme for Control of Blindness is to bring down the prevalence of
childhood blindness to 0.2 per cent by 2020.
A.P. Irungovel,
patient educator and counsellor with Sankara Nethralaya, says: “Every year, we
conduct a survey of school children. Last year we found that around 25 per cent
of children in Chennai Corporation schools were unaware that they had
refractive errors.”
Since more than 75 per
cent of the learning process is visual, it is important to watch for changes in
the way the child holds a book.
“Make 20-20-20 the
rule. That is, every 20 minutes, take your eyes away from the computer, blink
20 times for 20 seconds,” he adds.
Parents and teachers
can pick up children by observing how the child holds his book or if s/he sits
too close to the monitor. It is also important to ensure that a child wearing
spectacles is not teased about it, he says.
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