Giving my children a post-Covid-19 check-up, hugging a bunch of tonics at home and throwing them away, it’s hard to regret drinking

03/04/2022 11:04 GMT+7

Ms. Le Thi Quynh – living in Lang Street, Hanoi, said that since her child was infected with Covid-19, while in the process of treatment, she went online to read a lot of “post-Covid” news and was really worried. After the baby was negative, she took him to the post-Covid-19 doctor right away.

When entering the hospital, the number of children coming to the clinic was too large, Quynh sent her child to a private hospital for examination.

After doing all the tests, the doctor said that Quynh’s second child had a high level of D-Dimer – a blood clot index.

Quynh was scared, so she transferred her child to the National Children’s Hospital for re-examination. As a result, the doctor said that the child was normal and the doctor prescribed multivitamins, added zinc and told the child to drink a lot of water without any treatment.

Just like Quynh, after recovering from Covid-19 for 1 week, I began to have diarrhea and abdominal pain, Ms. Nguyen Hai Ha – Van Khe, Hanoi hurriedly sent her son to a doctor. The doctor only prescribed digestive enzymes for the baby and told the parents to monitor this, this is a normal phenomenon of Covid-19. Quynh said that her child was infected with Covid-19 in January 2021, so when she was re-infected, she was very worried about her health. Fortunately, after taking probiotics for 3 days, the abdominal pain and diarrhea disappeared.

And Ms. Phuong Ha – Ba Dinh, Hanoi lamented that her two children, 6 years old and 2 years old, both had Covid-19. After recovering, she sent her son to be examined after Covid-19. The two babies have no problems, but the doctor still prescribes a bag of functional foods. As a result, both the cost of functional foods and the cost of drugs were 13 million dong. Currently, the children are afraid of taking medicine, it’s a pity to leave it, but it’s like a battle every day, I try to drink it. Ms. Ha lamented that drinking was also painful, but she regretted giving up.

Children are examined after Covid-19 at the National Children’s Hospital.

According to TS.BS. Le Thi Thu Huong – Pediatrics Department of Hanoi Medical University Hospital, children as well as adults when infected with Covid-19 need time to recover. Dr. Huong said parents do not need to rush to send their children to be tested for post-Covid-19 as soon as they are negative.

The time to take your child to the doctor after Covid-19 is the 4th and 12th week from the time of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus.

This timeline is from the recommendations of many countries. For example, according to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), symptoms that persist, continue, or recur, or appear new 4 weeks after a baby has F0 are defined as “post-Covid-19”. “.

According to the NICE Institute – is a leading institute in the UK and the world in developing professional treatment guidelines and clinical quality standards, recommending symptoms that persist, continue or recur or appear. new after 4 weeks to 12 weeks since F0 is called “prolonged Covid” and after 12 weeks it is called “post-Covid”. Therefore, parents can choose the 4th and 12th week milestones from the time their baby is positive to check their child’s health.

If the baby has no inflammatory response in the fourth week, there are no problems, the 12th week does not need to go to the doctor, and if in the fourth week there is still an inflammatory reaction, the 12th week has to go to the doctor again.

If, after the F0 stage, the baby has any unusual symptoms, especially a high fever, the parents must take the baby to the doctor soon for support.

When a child has been infected with Covid-19, parents still have to prevent the disease for the child because the child can still be infected. Dr. Huong said that at the hospital’s clinic, the doctor met babies who were re-infected with Covid-19 (2nd infection). When the baby is first infected and has recovered, the baby’s body makes antibodies, which protect the baby from the virus.

However, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 is constantly mutating, so there is a possibility of reinfection of the baby and reinfection here is infection with a new virus strain that is different from the one that was infected for the first time.

Thus, even though the baby has recovered from Covid-19, it is still necessary to strictly adhere to 5K at the highest possible level to prevent re-infection with Covid-19.

Khanh Chi