(CT) - The Center for Disease Control (CDC) of Can Tho City has just launched the first high-dose vitamin A supplementation campaign. The campaign must follow professional guidelines, ensuring hygiene and safety for children. Children from 6 to 35 months old will be given vitamin A according to the recommended dose from June 5 to 9, 2023.
Take children to health stations to take vitamin A.
Specifically: children from 6 months to 11 months old (children born from June 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022) take 1 single 100,000 IU tablet (blue tablet); children from 12 months to 35 months old (children born from May 15, 2020 to May 31, 2022) take 1 single 200,000 IU tablet (red tablet).
For children from 6 to 59 months old who have infectious diseases that cause a risk of vitamin A deficiency (prolonged diarrhea, acute respiratory infections), children with severe malnutrition, if the child has received vitamin A according to the campaign within the previous month, do not give the child an additional high dose of vitamin A. If the child has received vitamin A according to the campaign over the previous month, they can take an additional preventive dose according to their age.
In case of children diagnosed with measles, it is necessary to give them vitamin A, according to Decision 1327/QD-BYT dated April 18, 2014 of the Ministry of Health promulgating guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of measles. Do not continue to supplement high doses of vitamin A for postpartum women within 1 month. Contraindicated for children with abdominal pain, high fever (> 38.5ºC); children with chronic diseases (mental illness, kidney failure, heart, liver, bronchial asthma); have a history of allergy to the ingredients of the drug.
According to the Department of Nutrition, CDC Can Tho, vitamin A protects the eyes, prevents night blindness and dry eye disease, ensures normal development of the skeleton, teeth, protects mucous membranes and skin, and enhances the body's resistance against infectious diseases. Vitamin A deficiency will cause children to grow slowly, affect their intellectual development, reduce immunity, increase the rate of disease, especially respiratory and digestive tract infections and measles. Infection and vitamin A deficiency are a vicious cycle of disease leading to a high risk of death. Vitamin A deficiency also causes dry eye, dry cornea, keratomalacia, if not treated promptly, it will lead to corneal scarring and permanent blindness.
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