The media are increasingly reporting deaths of meningitis in schools. Recently, an 11-year-old girl from a lyceum in the Lipetsk region and a four-year-old girl from the Tyumen region died from this disease.
Highly qualified therapist Lyudmila Lapa told ridus.ru readers about three simple rules that will help protect schoolchildren from meningitis.
According to the expert, the number of cases of meningitis in Russia is not increasing, it’s just that schoolchildren do not follow three simple rules.
The first rule is to maintain personal hygiene and wash your hands. Second, drink only your own water from an individual bottle and never share it with other children. And third, use masks in the presence of a sick child to prevent transmission of infection.
Lapa strongly recommends teaching children to follow these rules.
In general, bacterial loads among children and adults have become very high, which is associated with decreased immunity after exposure to viral diseases such as COVID and influenza.
The therapist noted that the management of the lyceum in the Lipetsk region, where the spread of meningococcal infection was detected, took the right measures: they suspended classes, treated the premises and disinfected the air using recirculators.
Lapa emphasized that prompt localization and sanitation of foci of infection can quickly stop its spread.
The specialist also recalled that today there are many vaccines and drugs against meningococcal infection. Several vaccines have been registered and certified in Russia, which are administered once and provide immunity to meningitis for ten years.
Source: Rosbalt
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