DUBAI SEES SPIKE IN CASES OF SEASONAL RESPIRATORY ILLNESS AMONG CHILDREN

  • 09/11/2021

Dubai: With schools back to 100 percent face to face learning for longer than a month at this point, a few pediatricians in Dubai have seen a spike in instances of cold, influenza and other occasional respiratory diseases among youngsters. 


The diseases are seen for the most part in kids matured three to seven, the specialists said. The pattern could be on the grounds that the vast majority of these adolescents are drawing in with different youngsters without precedent for longer than a year, they added. 

Dr Jamuna Raghuraman, pediatrician at Medeor Hospital, Dubai, said the majority of the kids she had seen had diseases of the lower and upper respiratory parcel, hypersensitivities and rashes. 

"Many are trying positive for flu, while a few kids have specific hypersensitivities and throat contamination. The most likely explanation could be that the understudies are returning to school after quite a while. The unexpected outside openness after a long hole may be a urgent variable in setting off illnesses among kids," Dr Raghuraman said. 

The changing climate is additionally a component, she said.

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