Tribunnews.com Reporter, Rina Ayu
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA –The Indonesian Pediatrician Association publishes guidelines self isolation (Isoman) for children and families who are positive for Covid-19.
Quoting from the official IDAI guide, there are a number of things that must be prepared and paid attention to during self isolation child.
The first is to ensure that children who are positive for Covid-19 have no symptoms or are asymptomatic, or have mild symptoms such as cough, runny nose, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and rashes.
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Then, the child is active and can eat and drink. Parents must apply cough etiquette to their children and monitor symptoms or complaints.
Then, parents also need to check body temperature 2 times a day (morning and night). It is also recommended that the home/room environment has good ventilation.
IDAI explained, parents can continue to care for children who are positive for Covid-19, provided that parents or caregivers have a low risk of severe symptoms.
If there are family members who are positive, they can be isolated together.
However, when parents and children differ in the status of Covid-19 symptoms, it is recommended that they sleep 2 meters apart, on separate mattresses.
It is important for parents to provide psychological support to their children.
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