What are some good precautions to keep newborn from getting swine flu?
Christie asked:
I have a 5 year old in kindergarten and a 3 year old in a two day a week preschool program. I have a 4 week old and have heard (through a close friend at the hospital) that a few of the nurses at a neighboring hospital have tested positive for swine flu. I get my children vaccinated every year for the regular flu but those haven’t been received yet (thought I know that won’t help for swine flu.) Should I pull my 3 year old from the preschool program until spring when my newborn will be older? Any ideas and advice would be appreciated. Also, how are babies doing that get the swine flu?
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The best precaution is to ****** feed. You pass your immunities through your milk. Secondly, hand washing it key. You know this I am sure. Don’t pull your 3 year old, your 5 year old is the one that is most exposed to germs being at school every day in kindergarten. A good hand wash before touching anything is best. When you pick your kids up, hand them a hand towel to wash off germs on the way to the car. Handles are the most likely spot. Use Clorox wipes or if you are in a pinch, use a baby wipe and clean off car handles, door handles, light switches ETC. Really pay attention to what the kids touch on their way home from school. Be careful not to make them paranoid about their “germs.” Wash toys with bleach & water (look at clorox.com for amounts). Don’t encourage kissing between the kids and use a dishwasher for your dishes not sink washing. I have not heard of one healthy baby dying of swine flu. IF your kids have some symptoms, look them up online and see if they could be swine flu. Try not to run to the doc unless you have to. Sometimes the doctors office is the worst place to take your kids because surely someone there has the virus. Best of luck!
Honey if we let all these things scares us then we would never leave our homes just take care if one of the kids is feeling sick then don’t let them get to close to the baby and no kissing the baby on the mouth but don’t get so caught up worry about all this or you will stop living
Hygiene is the only answer and if one of your kids gets infected, keep him away from the other kids for the duration. Clean everything your sick kid has all the time and all the surfaces he touches.
Hello Christie,
Authorities have stated that high alert is only need for sick kids younger than 1 year old. So, this implicates that you can focuss on your youngest child to take care of swine flu prevention.
In general, hand hygiene appears to be among the very few factors that people can manage themselves. So, for example you can make sure that the other 2 kids have washed their hands before they start interacting with your youngest child.
The source below provides 10 golden rules for establishing hand hygiene.
By the way, try to be sensible with your actions. Pulling your 3 year old kid from the preschool program until spring is an option, but might actually be an over-reaction as well.
I hope this answer will be helpful for you to ease your mind a bit, since the some answers indicate that you might have a bit too much of worries on your mind.
Keep cool … and think about your own hand hygiene!
Best wishes from The Netherlands,
Martijn
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