What are the methods to prevent polio?

Polio is an acute infectious disease, so parents place all their attention and expectations on their children. However, once polio occurs, it will bring lifelong pain to children. Therefore, we must pay attention to the prevention of polio. So what are the methods of preventing polio? Let’s introduce them to you in detail below.

Clinically, giving children oral inactivated polio vaccine, namely polio pills, is the best way to prevent polio. Clinically, this vaccine is safe, convenient, has strong immunity and lasts for a long time, and has very few adverse reactions. It is very popular among parents. As long as we take it according to the doctor's guidance and plan, children can develop good immunity.

Another important part of preventing polio is to pay attention to children's daily food hygiene. In daily life, children should be trained to wash their hands before and after meals and not eat unclean food. Children's clothes, bed sheets, toys, supplies and tableware should be disinfected (boil for 15 minutes or expose to sunlight for two hours). In addition, maintaining good environmental hygiene and eliminating flies is also a very important aspect of cutting off the source of infection.

Properly arranging children's rest and nutrition, avoiding overwork and cold, can enhance children's resistance to diseases. As for susceptible children with a history of close contact, they can be injected with immunoglobulin for prevention, with a dose of 0.3-0.5 ml per kilogram of body weight. The symptoms of the patients can be alleviated within one week after the injection. If the patients have not developed the disease after 2-5 weeks of infection, it means that passive immunity is successful and the children have been effectively protected.

Through the above understanding of the methods of polio prevention, during the polio epidemic, we should try to avoid tonsillectomy for children, avoid extracting decayed teeth, and do not take children to public places such as theaters to reduce the chance of cross infection. In particular, we should pay attention to not eating food that is bitten by flies or contaminated.