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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - It is highest flu season, and Fresno County exigency rooms person been filled with patients with respiratory illnesses.
With galore vacation gatherings ahead, immoderate unwellness is guaranteed to spread.
Getting vaccinated is the archetypal measurement to protecting ourselves from COVID-19, RSV, and the flu.
"Once you get vaccinated and you bash travel crossed the flu oregon COVID-19, those symptoms volition beryllium precise mild," said Leticia Berber, Health Educator astatine the Fresno County Department of Public Health.
The Fresno County Department of Public Health recommends that everyone implicit six months of age get the recently updated COVID-19 vaccine and the yearly flu shot.
For the RSV vaccine, if anyone is 60 years oregon older, pregnant, oregon has an babe 8 months oregon younger, interaction a healthcare provider.
Another preventative measurement is simple, lavation hands often with soap and lukewarm h2o for 20 seconds.
Anyone who becomes sick, enactment location and debar adjacent interaction with household members.
If anyone needs to interact with others, they should deterioration a mask.
"The symptoms of respiratory illnesses are precocious fever, a sore throat, congestion, sore muscles, assemblage aches, it's a miserable state of being erstwhile you're infected with these viruses," Berber said.
Valley Children's has besides seen a surge successful sick children with the flu and RSV.
"I really consciousness similar it wasn't needfully immoderate higher than it has been successful erstwhile years," said Dr. Whitney Kalin, M.D, Valley Children's Pediatric Hospitalist.
Kalin shared erstwhile radical should instrumentality their sick children to the pediatrician versus erstwhile it's indispensable to spell to the emergency room.
"Any clip a kid is having terrible occupation breathing, turning blue, what we telephone respiratory distress, these kids request to beryllium successful the exigency room, that is not a clip to hold to spot your superior attraction doctor, surely immoderate kid nether the property of 2 months who is spiking a fever, we bash privation those children besides to beryllium seen urgently," she said.
Parents of tiny infants should debar letting others buss their babe during flu season.
