Preventive health care on winter infectious diseases: Influenza

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Basic information about infectious disease

Preventive health care on winter infectious diseases

– Influenza –

If children and young people develop influenza they must not attend school nor kindergarten during a minimum 5-day period. And, even feeling better, members of the family will have to take a day off from their works or postpone appointments to take care of the sick person, causing inconvenience for many people. It is important to take care of our health in order to prevent from contamination of influenza virus.

Prevention tips!

Basically is to use a mask, wash your hands and gargle when returning home.

1. When returning home, wash your hands and gargle!
2. Eat and sleep properly to strengthen your resistance
3. The preventive vaccine will avoid the symptoms get worse
4. Avoid crowded places
5. Control air humidity (ideal is above than 60%)

★  Regarding the essential rest period after developing the illness

Based on Scholar Security Law

Essential rest period: must pass 5 days after developing the viruses and more 2 days after fever is brought down completely (3 days for children between the ages of 2 and 6)

*Developing influenza: calculate from the first day of fever

*Counting of the days after fever is brought down completely: it does not include the day the fever decreased, but from the next day.

Source: Mie Prefecture Information Center on Contagious Illness (Mie-ken Kansensho Joho Center)