How to prevent and deal with seasonal diseases

Cold mornings, hot afternoons and cold nights. The spring season bring many kind of environmental change and it sorted environment with new looking flower and many more nice looking thing.
The changing Spring climate brings with it various respiratory diseases.
The Spring began, with icy mornings, hot afternoons and cold nights again, giving rise to various respiratory diseases that affect all members of the family group, being more worrisome the case of young children, older adults and people with chronic diseases.

Last year, the winter disease prevention campaign started early because it was intended to prevent the rise of respiratory diseases due to low temperatures. In June 2014, 50.6 percent of the emergency consultations of the Primary Care Centers and SAPU of the Metropolitan Region (RM), corresponded to respiratory diseases.
For this year, the scenery is expected to be similar since the changes in temperature are compounded by poor air ventilation, therefore respiratory diseases are not only a family problem but also a country issue , since the emergency centers of the system public and private have an increase in their usual consultations.
"While these diseases afflict people of all ages equally, those who are in the extreme ages of life are more vulnerable: childhood and old age, mainly premature children , those who receive poor breastfeeding, or those who have conditions. allergic, and also the elderly, especially with bronchial asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), defined as the chronic and progressive obstruction of the airways to the air flow that enters the lungs and the result is the gradual loss of pulmonary function ", explains Dr. Sebastien Ugarte, head of the critical patient unit of Clínica INDISA and president of the Critical Medicine Network (Scientific Society of Critical and Emergency Medicine).

For his part, the physiotherapist Jose Luis Sufán adds that "our professional role offers a set of assessment and treatment

procedures in patients with pathologist that compromise respiratory function from newborns to older adults actions performed in and with the patient, used as support and complement in the treatment of respiratory pathologist and in all those conditions in which the ventilatory function is affected, in children and adults.

The kinesic respiratory treatment includes manual techniques on the thorax, breathing exercises, use of oxygen therapy equipment, use of aerosol therapy and inspiratory stimulators, use of mechanical ventilators and positive expiratory pressure systems and use of mechanical assistance equipment for bronchial hygiene, which they aim to permeabilize the airway, reduce respiratory work, optimize gas exchange and lung compliance.
The respiratory pathologist that most frequently require intervention in kinesiology are pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, cystic fibrosis , bronchitis, among others. Those that affect newborns, infants and critically ill patients need special attention.
Go up Prevention
From the medical point of view, vaccines are one of the main ways to prevent these situations. There are some compulsory according to age, others according to the campaign -for example influenza- and others that doctors recommend for pertussis or whooping cough, listeria, among other conditions, available for children under 4 years of age, seniors and people with chronic diseases. .

Dr. Sebastian Ugarte explains that "respiratory infections are a threat and constitute a major public health problem, because they are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.  The most important predisposing factors are environmental, individual and social data. Between environmental factors are environmental pollution inside or outside the home, which in Chile is a problem both in Santiago and in regions , passive smoking, poor ventilation of the home, sudden changes in temperature, assistance to places with high concentration of people (subway, kindergartens, etc.) and contact with sick people".
Finally, it is important to recognize the symptoms or know in time if it requires specialized attention, because it is not always the case. " The warning signs that must make emergency come are the presence of hypothermia in infants under 2 months, respiratory whining, respiratory distress, rejection of fluids and foods,

accelerated breathing, sinking of the intercostal spaces , the presence of drowsiness or insomnia, the existence of perioral or finger cyanosis, fever (for more than three days). In the presence of an alarm sign, the patient must be transferred to the nearest hospital, "said the doctor Sebastien Ugarte, head of the critical patient unit of Clínica INDISA and president of the Critical Medicine Network (Scientific Society of Critical and Emergency Medicine).

Upload Tips
• Do not forget to wash your hands well
• Use your forearm to protect the spread of a sneeze.
• Protect the nostrils and mouth when changing from a temperate place to a cold place and vice versa (using a scarf, bandana or mask).
• Ventilate spaces at least once a day.
• Dress appropriately -not overcoat- as perspiration moistens clothes and contributes to sudden changes in temperature.
• Avoid agglomerations and contact with patients.
• No smoking and, if it is done, in open spaces without the presence of people at risk (children, pregnant women, elderly people, chronic respiratory patients).
• Heating the spaces with the best fuel that is accessible (in order are electricity, gas, paraffin, firewood only with double combustion chamber).
• Finally, get vaccinated against the flu and follow the mandatory schedule of vaccines for children and seniors.