Understanding of Norovirus and Preventive Measures

1. Norovirus preventive measures and health tips

Health tips for norovirus prevention measures 1. What preventive measures does Norovirus have?

Maintain good eating habits and environmental hygiene. Do not eat uncooked food (such as seafood and salad), and do not eat spoiled, unclean, cold and pickled food. Food needs to be cooked for at least 15~20 minutes before it can be safely eaten.

Keep the room and environment clean and remove pests such as flies and cockroaches. Develop good personal hygiene habits, insist on washing hands and cutting nails frequently.

Wash your hands with soap and water before eating or handling food. Drink boiled water instead of raw water.

Wash your hands thoroughly before handling food or eating, after going to the toilet and after handling vomit or feces. Early detection, early isolation and early treatment of patients with gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea should be treated as soon as possible, and do not contact with relatives and friends.

Stay away from crowded places and don't go to crowded public places to reduce the chance of infection.

2. How to prevent norovirus, how to prevent norovirus infection and how to prevent it.

To prevent norovirus-infected diarrhea, we should first pay attention to personal hygiene and wash our hands frequently.

Whether eating at home or at school, we must pay attention to telling our children to wash their hands before meals. It is recommended to wash your hands with running water, and the cleanliness is the best.

Second, try not to eat cold food, rinse food, that is, food that is not cooked thoroughly. For example, when you rinse hot pot, many things are probably not cooked thoroughly. If you eat cold salad at home, you must wash the dishes repeatedly, and the chopping board for cutting raw meat and cooked food at home should be separated.

If parents want to take their children out to eat, it is best to bring their own tableware, such as bowls, spoons, chopsticks, etc., which will be more reassuring, and at the same time pay attention to choosing a clean restaurant. Third, children should be reduced to large crowded places in the popular season.

Because norovirus spreads not only by mouth, but also by hand. For example, if children go to amusement parks, it is recommended to go to outdoor amusement parks. The indoor playground is not ventilated, and the virus of coughing and sneezing can completely occupy toys and chairs through droplets. If children touch these things again, they will be easily infected. Finally, if other children have symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting, they should pay attention to isolation.

3. What are the measures to prevent norovirus infection?

Because norovirus infection is a common intestinal infectious disease, local clustering cases are prone to occur in crowded places. So we should take precautions together.

1. Pay attention to personal hygiene and wash your hands frequently.

2. Don't eat cold food and uncooked food, and reduce eating in off-campus restaurants, especially unlicensed street shops.

3. Reduce the chances of going out to attend important meetings and large-scale activities, and put an end to infection channels.

4. As soon as there is a situation, see a doctor immediately and report to the unit and the community.

Health education should strengthen publicity and education focusing on the prevention of intestinal infectious diseases, advocate drinking boiled water and not eating raw aquatic products, especially prohibiting eating raw aquatic products such as shellfish, washing raw fruits and vegetables, washing hands before and after meals, and developing good hygiene habits.

To strengthen drinking water sanitation, we should speed up the construction of tap water in urban and rural areas. In areas that temporarily fail to meet the requirements, it is necessary to protect water sources, improve drinking water conditions and disinfect drinking water.

Do a good job in food hygiene, strictly implement the Food Hygiene Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), especially strengthen the hygiene management of catering industry (including restaurants, individual restaurants, food stalls around schools, etc.). ), farmers' markets, collective canteens, etc. Food processors should pay strict attention to personal hygiene and be transferred from their jobs as soon as they get sick.

Management of patients, contacts and their direct contact environment

Isolation: Patients, suspected patients and carriers should be treated separately.

Report on sudden epidemic situation: The responsible epidemic situation reporter shall report the sudden epidemic situation to the disease prevention and control institutions in the epidemic area by the fastest communication mode within 6 hours in the town and 0/2 hours in the countryside.

Disinfection: vomit and contaminated articles, air, drinking water, toilets, etc. Disinfect patients, suspected patients and carriers at any time, and send infected people to isolation wards or carry out final disinfection after being cured.

4. How to prevent Norovirus?

1. But don't panic even if you are infected with Norovirus. Generally, patients can recover in 3 days, but they are in poor health or the elderly and children are prone to other diseases. Autumn and winter are the high incidence of norovirus infection, so we should do a good job.

Avoid eating raw aquatic products. Norovirus is mainly transmitted through contaminated water and food. Shellfish, fish and vegetable salad are common contaminated foods. So eat these foods must be thoroughly cooked.

2. Norovirus is a group of caliciviruses. Norovirus has great genetic variation, so there is no specific antiviral drug at present. So symptomatic treatment is the main method. Patients are prone to diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. In severe cases, infusion can be given in time to supplement trace elements lost due to dehydration and correct electrolyte flocculation. 3. Because Norovirus is easy to break out in dense crowds, we should take precautions. First of all, pay attention to personal hygiene, don't eat cold and uncooked food, and try to avoid eating in unlicensed snack bars. Reduce participation in large-scale collective activities and block communication channels. The most important thing is to seek medical treatment as soon as you get sick, so as not to delay the illness and cause large-scale spread.

5. How to prevent norovirus infection?

Norovirus is commonly known as gastrointestinal flu, food poisoning or gastroenteritis.

Diarrhea caused by norovirus has the characteristics of acute onset, rapid spread and wide coverage. It can spread through water, food, goods and even air.

It usually breaks out in communities, schools and densely populated places. The incubation period of norovirus is mostly 24~48 hours, the shortest is 12 hours and the longest is 72 hours.

The main symptoms at onset are nausea, fever, vomiting and diarrhea. Steps/Methods: 1 However, don't panic even if you are infected with Norovirus. Generally, patients can recover in 3 days, but their health is poor or the elderly and children are prone to other diseases.

The high incidence of norovirus infection is in autumn and winter, so raw aquatic products should be avoided as far as possible. Norovirus is mainly transmitted through contaminated water and food. Shellfish, fish and vegetable salad are common contaminated foods. So eat these foods must be thoroughly cooked.

Norovirus is a group of caliciviruses. Norovirus has great genetic variation, and there is no specific antiviral drug at present. So symptomatic treatment is the main method.

Patients are prone to diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. In severe cases, infusion can be given in time to supplement trace elements lost due to dehydration and correct electrolyte flocculation.

Because norovirus is easy to break out in dense crowds, we should take precautions. First of all, pay attention to personal hygiene, don't eat cold and uncooked food, and try to avoid eating in unlicensed snack bars.

Reduce participation in large-scale collective activities and block communication channels. The most important thing is to seek medical treatment as soon as you get sick, so as not to delay the illness and cause large-scale spread.

Precautions: Wash your hands with warm water and soap frequently to avoid direct contact with infected people and avoid eating with infected people. During illness, you can drink a small amount of liquid mixed with trace sugar and salt.