Ailén Castilla Padrón
Persistent diarrhea and vomiting are the symptoms that have triggered alerts in the surveillance system for Acute Diarrheal Diseases (ADD) in Ciego de Ávila, where in recent months hospital care for these causes has increased exponentially, just when the calendar It marks a seasonal increase, which increases the probability of suffering from them.
So far this year, more than 1,000 patients have been reported with these warning signs and, at week 37, the increase exceeds that recorded on the same date of the previous year by 71.2 percent, with emphasis in pediatric ages.
Laidelys Alemán Véliz, head of the EDA Program in the territory, confirmed that laboratory examinations and tests performed on hospitalized patients and under surveillance in health areas confirm the infectious origin of diarrhea due to seasonal rotaviruses that circulate.
Likewise, they have ruled out the incidence of these symptoms associated with cholera or, for the most part, bacteria such as giardia and amoeba. Contaminated food has not been aggravating either, since only three outbreaks due to these causes add up to the province’s statistics.
Alemán Véliz’s explanation also insists on personal care and the importance of raising the perception of risk. Thus, their most accurate recommendations are hand washing, eating safe foods, boiling water, using one percent sodium hypochlorite and, if phlegm or blood appears in the stool, immediately go to the doctor. doctor.