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Soothing Your Sick Child

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  • Sick Baby Tips

A sick baby is rarely a happy baby. Your infant or toddler will likely be fussy and out of sorts during their illness. You'll want to check in with your pediatrician, of course, and follow all treatment instructions. Beyond that, you'll just have to wait for the illness to run its course, especially if your baby is sick with a viral infection. In the meantime, there are a number of steps you can take to soothe your sick infant.

Plenty of liquids

Make sure that your child is getting plenty of liquids to prevent dehydration. Depending on whether you are breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, offer your infant the breast or bottle more often than usual to provide both hydration and comfort. Your sick baby may not feed for their normal duration so smaller more frequent will prevent dehydration. Your infant may also enjoy a small 2 to 4 ounce bottle filled with cool water if they are older than 6 months. Don't give water to your infant if they are under 6 months old because their kidneys are not mature enough to handle water. Breast milk or formula is best at this stage. If they drink less than usual, remember to offer it more often. Your doctor may recommend a schedule of feedings based on your baby's weight to prevent dehydration. 

Plenty of rest

Lots of rest and sleep will soothe your sick baby and help them heal. Put your baby to bed early, if you can, and encourage naps. Avoid situations that will over-stimulate your baby -- and possibly expose others to their germs -- and keep them as quiet as possible.

Nose drops

If your baby's nose is particularly congested, you can use over-the-counter saline drops, gel, or spray to thin mucus and relieve congestion. Check with your doctor first and ask which specific products they recommend. Use two drops in each nostril before feeding and bedtime, or whenever your baby seems particularly congested

Nasal syringe

After you use nose drops or spray, use a nasal syringe to clear your baby's nose of mucus so they can breathe more easily. Clear nostrils two to three times a day using a nasal aspirator, especially before feeding and bedtime.

Humidifier

Running a cold-mist humidifier in your infant's room will help keep air moist and ease congestion. (Cool-mist humidifiers are recommended over warm, because warm-mist devices present the danger of scalding.) Be sure to follow the manufacturer's instructions for changing filters and keeping the humidifier clean, and fill with fresh water every day to prevent mold and bacteria.

Warm bath

Not only will a warm bath soothe your sick infant, it will ease aches and pains, and steam from the warm water will also help clear congestion. Dry your baby thoroughly afterward to prevent chills.

Elevate head

Keep your infant's head slightly elevated to make breathing easier.

TLC

By far the best way to soothe your sick baby is to give them lots of love and attention. Hold them and engage in quiet play, give them an infant massage, or read and sing to them. If you are breastfeeding, they may want to nurse more, which will reassure and comfort them. If they like being in a snugly or sling, bundle them up and do some chores, or take a walk. Talk to them and reassure them, whether they are old enough to understand or not, as your voice will help relax and soothe your sick infant.

Common cold in babies - Diagnosis and treatment

Diagnosis

If your baby is younger than 3 months of age, call his or her doctor early in the illness. In newborns, it's especially important to make sure that a more serious illness isn't present, especially if your baby has a fever.

In general, you don't need to see the doctor if your older baby has a common cold. If you have questions or if your baby's symptoms worsen or don't go away, it might be time to see the doctor.

Your baby's doctor can generally diagnose a common cold by your baby's signs and symptoms. If your doctor suspects your baby has a bacterial infection or other condition, he or she may order a chest X-ray or other tests to exclude other causes of your baby's symptoms.

Treatment

There's no cure for the common cold. Most cases of the common cold get better without treatment, usually within a week to 10 days, but a cough may linger for a week or more. Antibiotics don't work against cold viruses.

Try to make your baby more comfortable with measures such as making sure he or she drinks enough fluids, suctioning nasal mucus and keeping the air moist.

Over-the-counter (OTC) medications generally should be avoided in babies.

Fever-reducing medications

You can use OTC fever-reducing medications if a fever is making your child uncomfortable. However, these medications don't kill the cold virus. Fever is a part of your child's natural response to the virus, so it may help to allow your child to have a low-grade fever.

For treatment of fever or pain in children, consider giving your child infants' or children's over-the-counter fever and pain medications such as acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others). These are safer alternatives to aspirin.

For children younger than 3 months old, don't give acetaminophen until your baby has been seen by a doctor. Don't give ibuprofen to a child younger than 6 months old or to children who are vomiting constantly or are dehydrated. Use these medications for the shortest time. If you give your child a pain reliever, follow the dosing guidelines carefully. Call your doctor if you have questions about the right dosage for your baby.

Children and teenagers recovering from chickenpox or flu-like symptoms should never take aspirin. This is because aspirin has been linked to Reye's syndrome, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, in such children.

Cough and cold medications

Cough and cold medications aren't safe for infants and young children. OTC cough and cold medicines don't treat the underlying cause of a child's cold and won't make it go away sooner ⸺ and they can be dangerous to your baby. Cough and cold medications have potentially serious side effects, including fatal overdoses in children younger than 2 years old.

Don't use over-the-counter medicines, except for fever reducers and pain relievers, to treat coughs and colds in children younger than 6 years old. Also consider avoiding use of these medicines for children younger than 12 years old.

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Lifestyle and home remedies

Most often, you can treat an older baby's cold at home. To make your baby as comfortable as possible, try some of these suggestions:

  • Offer plenty of fluids. Liquids are important to avoid dehydration. Formula or breast milk is the best choice. Encourage your baby to take in the usual amount of fluids. Extra fluids aren't necessary. If you're breastfeeding your baby, keep it up. Breast milk offers extra protection from cold-causing germs.

  • Suction your baby's nose. Keep your baby's nasal passages clear with a rubber-bulb syringe. Squeeze the bulb syringe to expel the air. Then insert the tip of the bulb about 1/4 to 1/2 inch (about 6 to 12 millimeters) into your baby's nostril, pointing toward the back and side of the nose.

    Release the bulb, holding it in place while it suctions the mucus from your baby's nose. Remove the syringe from your baby's nostril and empty the contents onto a tissue by squeezing the bulb rapidly while holding the tip down. Repeat as often as needed for each nostril. Clean the bulb syringe with soap and water.

  • Try nasal saline drops. Your baby's doctor may recommend saline nasal drops to moisten nasal passages and loosen thick nasal mucus. Look for these OTC drops in your local pharmacy. Apply saline nasal drops, wait for a short period, and then use a suction bulb to draw mucus out of each nostril.
  • Moisten the air. Running a cool-water humidifier in your baby's room can ease nasal congestion. Change the water daily and follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning the unit.

Preparing for your appointment

If you need to see your baby's pediatrician or family doctor, here's some information to help you get ready for your baby's appointment.

What you can do

Make a list of:

  • Symptoms you've noticed in your baby, including any that may seem unrelated to the reason for which you scheduled the appointment.
  • Key personal information, such as whether your baby goes to child care or has otherwise been exposed to someone with a common cold. Include how many colds your baby has had, how long they lasted and whether your baby is exposed to secondhand smoke. It might help to make a note on your calendar the day you realize your baby has a cold.
  • All medications, vitamins or supplements your baby is taking, including dosages.
  • Questions to ask your doctor.

For a common cold, some questions to ask the doctor include:

  • What is likely causing my baby's symptoms?
  • Are there other possible causes?
  • What tests are needed?
  • What's the best course of action?
  • My baby has other health conditions. How can I best manage them together?
  • Are there restrictions we need to follow?
  • Are there over-the-counter medications that aren't safe for my child at this age?

Don't hesitate to ask other questions you have.

What to expect from your doctor

Your baby's doctor is likely to ask you questions, including:

  • When did your baby's symptoms begin?
  • Have they been continuous or occasional?
  • How severe are they?
  • What, if anything, seems to improve them?
  • What, if anything, appears to worsen them?
  • Has the nasal congestion caused your baby to eat or drink less?
  • Is your baby having as many wet diapers as usual?
  • Has there been a fever? If so, how high?
  • Are your child's vaccinations up to date?
  • Has your child taken antibiotics recently?

Your doctor will ask additional questions based on your responses and your baby's symptoms and needs. Preparing and anticipating questions will help you make the most of your time with the doctor.

By Mayo Clinic Staff

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Feeding a sick child

Publication date: 12/15/2016 08:22

April 22nd, 2016 Olga.

While the child grows up, he will be ill with various diseases more than once. About 80% is accounted for by SARS. Any disease (we are now talking about the flu, SARS) is characterized by poor health of the child - malaise, cough, runny nose, weakness, and maybe intestinal upset. And all this affects the appetite of the child. If a child has caught a cold, mothers always ask themselves the question: how to feed him properly? Proper nutrition of a sick child will help to quickly cope with the disease.

During an illness, the baby always has a poor appetite. There are physiological reasons for this:

  • at elevated temperatures, blood circulation in the stomach slows down. because the body sends blood to vital organs: the heart and lungs. The process of digestion and assimilation of food slows down and the child needs less food than usual;
  • during an illness, the liver actively fights toxins, the products of the vital activity of viruses and the decay of damaged cells, so a large amount of food carries an additional burden;
  • the toxins themselves poison the body and the child, when he feels bad, not at all before eating;
  • blocked nose, sore throat, difficult to swallow.

  • Nutrition should be appropriate for the child's age;
  • during illness, do not introduce new foods into the diet;
  • food should be sparing - liquid or semi-liquid;
  • make small meals if the baby does not want to eat, and the number of feedings can be increased;
  • if the child refuses to eat, let him drink more fluids (water, compote, fruit drink, rosehip broth).

From the diet during illness should be excluded:

  1. Hard-to-digest foods - fatty meat, whole grain cereals, fresh vegetables and fruits.
  2. Foods harmful to the liver - fatty dairy products, chocolate, vegetable oil, lard, confectionery.
  3. Rough, which can damage the mucous membrane - nuts, seeds, crackers, cookies.

Useful menu

During an illness, a child needs food that is well absorbed by a weakened body. Therefore, chicken broth, vegetable soups, stewed and boiled vegetables are perfect for feeding a child during SARS.

To avoid mechanical irritation of the stomach, choose foods that are low in fiber. What foods are low in fiber? These are potatoes, cauliflower, pumpkin, rice and semolina, animal products.

Potatoes are especially delicate in fiber, so include mashed potatoes in your menu more often. You can cook mashed potatoes with sausage, cheese. Beautifully decorate the dish.

Animal protein must be present in the diet of a sick child, since it is a building material for protective antibodies. They are rich in lean meat - veal, beef, lean pork. For soups, use secondary broths from turkey meat, rabbit, chicken breast.

What else can you feed a child during illness? Yogurt helps out well, especially homemade, with the addition of berries.

Cook porridge for the child: semolina, oatmeal, you can also add berries from jam or defrosted.

A sick child needs vitamins. You can make vitamin drinks from rose hips, berries, cook jelly, dried fruit compote, berry juice. . Such drinks will alleviate the condition of the baby if the throat hurts. But with indigestion, milk should not be given at all.

To increase the appetite of the dish, it is desirable to arrange it beautifully so that the child immediately has a desire to eat it.

Nutrition for a convalescent child

After an acute period of illness, a period of convalescence begins, when the baby is on the mend and nutrition during this period plays an important role. The food of a recovering baby should be rich in energy in order to restore strength, contain minerals and vitamins, the food should be well absorbed.

As soon as the symptoms of the disease subside, do not rush to pounce on a child with enhanced nutrition, it will take a few more days to restore digestion. Continue to follow the diet, adding lean meat and fish, cheese, eggs, boiled vegetables and fruits to it.

Ideal for casseroles, puddings, steamed cutlets, vegetable soups. Introduce fruits and vegetables into the diet and do not forget about sour-milk products that will help restore the disturbed intestinal microflora. Let during this period the food be fractional, the child eat a little. And when the body gets stronger, the child will return to a normal diet.

Choosing tactics

When feeding a sick child, parents should remember that it is impossible to force-feed a child!

We provide a diet with easily digestible products. Some parents find it difficult to feed the baby during illness, he categorically refuses to eat. Psychologists advise not to turn feeding into a circus with musical numbers so that the child eats "well, at least one spoonful. "

If a child refuses to eat once, it will not bring much harm to health. He will not remain hungry, but will ask for something anyway when his appetite wakes up.

And don't scold the baby if he doesn't want to eat. Appetite will be restored.

Information from the site: deti-i-vnuki.ru/pitanie-bolnogo-rebenka/

"My son was lying like a rag." How children get sick with covid

"There has never been anything worse in my life"

Oleg, 35 years old (name changed at the request of the hero) — father of a child who had recovered from the disease

My son fell ill this June, he was two years old and four months. The temperature began to rise - first 37.6, then 37.8. By the end of the second day, he couldn't even raise his arm, just lay on the bed and stare into nowhere. My son never lies. He doesn’t even sit still for more than 15 minutes, and while he sits, he talks, looks around, touches things around ... He changes toys every five minutes, he always has an opinion about what to watch on TV. And then there was a sluggish, lifeless little man. In two years, you learn to understand exactly when everything is fine with your child and when it is not. It wasn't normal.

Once every half an hour he had coughing fits - he folded in half for about ten minutes. The sound was like a very angry dog ​​barking very strongly. The next day, the temperature rose to 39.5 and did not go astray for more than a day. We could only wipe it with water. When they tried to give him a drink, he simply pushed the bottle away, turned away, directly protested. And he didn’t eat anything - he physically couldn’t swallow. My son loves food, always knows what he wants to eat, and this is not at all like him.

We called an ambulance for a fee again, he was given an injection. We tried to be hospitalized in a private clinic - and it turned out that there was a queue of 50 people! Then we called the usual ambulance. I have never seen her come so quickly, literally in ten minutes. And we went to one of the city hospitals. It was the third or fourth day of illness, I do not remember.

My wife was hospitalized with her son, and by hook or by crook I stood under the window. The child was given droppers with glucose and saline because he still did not eat or drink. There was no damage to the lungs, but the tests showed problems with the kidney - due to the fact that the temperature did not go astray for a long time, there were a lot of toxins, and the kidney "overstrained". They spent 2.5 days in boxing, and I still managed to get them transferred to a private clinic. Although I don’t have any complaints about the state hospital - it’s just that private conditions are better.

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There, my son got better - I don't associate this with the change of clinic, it's just that the time has come. By the end of the day—that was the third day in the hospital in total—he asked for a cucumber himself. Then I ate chicken meatballs. I brought berries, but they were unsuccessful, watery, he tried and said: "This is not cool, give me a tomato. " So I think that tastes and smells did not disappear from him.

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My wife and son spent a week in two hospitals. As soon as the first negative test came, we went home. He was still coughing, but it was at the level of "a little bit of a cold and a recovering child", for such symptoms they do not call a doctor. After recovery, they did all the examinations, and only the kidney was not in order, but it also recovered after a few months.

My son cried only once during this time, when he was catheterized. And the wife - all the time. And it's not that we felt sorry for him. That is a pity, of course.

But when your baby is lying down and barely breathing, it fades into the background. Because I had thoughts that my son might die. When you can’t bring down the temperature with anything and just wipe the child with water ... This is ridiculous - rubbing with water! It's like "go pray for him, think positive"

Oleg

But you do it. And you wait - maybe the medicine will still work? Although no medication worked for more than a day. This is absolute horror, an extreme degree of fear and despair. There was nothing worse in my life.

"Our intensive care unit has never been so full"

Over 200,000 cases of covid in children have been registered in Moscow during the entire period of the pandemic. Of these, 5% resulted in hospitalization. Such data are provided by the chief pediatrician of the Moscow City Health Department, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chief Physician of the Children's City Clinical Hospital. PER. Bashlyaeva Ismail Osmanov. It was to this hospital on March 9, 2020 that the first child in Russia with confirmed covid was brought - a five-year-old boy who traveled with his family to Italy. He spent two weeks in the clinic, he was examined, but, as the head physician says, "there was nothing to complain about in his state of health."

Chief physician of the Children's Clinical Hospital named after Z. A. Bashlyaeva Ismail Osmanov (left) with nurses

© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS

And only later, serious patients began to arrive. “In the fourth wave, that is, this fall, there are twice as many children as there were in the third,” says Ismail Osmanov. “And three to four times more than in the first.” In turn, Deputy Mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakova said on November 19 that "if earlier the hospitalization of a child was an extremely rare situation, now we hospitalize 25 to 30 children with covid every day."

According to Osmanov, most often schoolchildren, mostly children aged 14-17, end up in the hospital with covid. But the number of infants, including newborns, is growing. The head physician says that the disease has "rejuvenated" so much now, in the fourth wave. But in Astrakhan, for example, Russia's first covid hospital for babies opened in July.

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And in the fourth wave, covid in children began to develop more rapidly and become more severe. “If earlier the deterioration occurred within seven to ten days, now this process takes two to three days,” says Ismail Osmanov. “We have not observed such unpredictable turns in the disease before.” “Before covid, our intensive care unit was never so full,” adds doctor Stanislav Kotenko, head of the short-stay hospital for children with coronavirus at the Bashlyaeva hospital. “September and October were hard, in November it became easier.”

In Russia, deaths from childhood covid have already been recorded. And around the world, according to the chief freelance pediatric specialist in pediatric preventive medicine of the Russian Ministry of Health Leyla Namazova-Baranova as of August this year, about nine thousand children died during the pandemic. The percentage, if you count from all those who died due to covid, is small. But no one wants their child to be in this percentage.

"She smiled: 'Will you really help me?'

There is a white piano in the hall of the Bashlyaeva hospital. A woman in a floor-length dress is playing on it - it seems, 'What makes birches make such a noise in Russia.' The head doctor explains: a children's hospital should not resemble a hospital. Parents come here to talk to the child's doctor, and in "pre-Covid" times, visit him (attendance is now limited). And they need to be distracted somehow.

The hospital's covid center occupies a separate building with five floors. We walk down a long corridor with many doors. Behind each is a separate box, it is designed for two patients. The doors are glass, and you can see how a teenage girl takes a selfie and laughs with a neighbor. You can't tell by her appearance that she is unwell, but her wrist is bandaged. This is a catheter - through it, medicine comes from the dropper.

© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS

"Well, mommy, how are you?" - asks, entering the box, the senior nurse Tatyana Yakhimchik. Then she will explain to me: “It’s not that we don’t address them by their first name and patronymic, there are just mothers who like it when they are called that. ” Babies are always hospitalized with one of the parents - only you can’t accompany the child to the intensive care unit.

A nurse in a children's hospital is the one who puts a drip, adjusts the pillow, and calms the mother down. He will check if the bedding is clean, if the sick teenager has eaten, and even if his phone is charged. “Imagine - the patient dozed off, and the phone went down, because before that he had been playing with toys all day,” Tatyana says. “And my mother is in a panic because she can’t get through. She will wind herself up thinking that the child is in intensive care!” And the nurse is the one who supports the child.

Tatyana Yakhimchik

© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS

…Once, during her rounds, Tatiana talked to a 15-year-old patient, answered her questions and heard that "everything is fine." And already leaving I noticed that the girl turns away and cries.

I say: "Bunny, what happened, why are you upset?" And she: "No, it's all right, I'm not crying . .." She held on, held on, and then suddenly: "I have such a big lung lesion, 70%, I'm afraid!" She had to lie on her stomach for 12 hours, she was on oxygen, she did not want to eat. I said: "You are in good hands, we can handle everything, call at any time ..." She smiled: "Will you really help me?"

Tatyana Yakhimchik

nurse

This was the peak moment of the disease, and soon the improvement began. The girl began to recover, "braided her beautiful pigtails" and was discharged "healthy and happy." “I am so glad that we found this thread, that I was there then,” says Tatyana.

...And once a father was lying with a 13-year-old boy. The boy was with developmental disabilities - he did not talk, communicated only with gestures. Sometimes he raised his hands up - so he showed that he wanted to go to the sea. He needed to have a catheter put in so that he would receive medicine from an IV. But as soon as dad turned away, he unbandaged his hand and disconnected from it. Tatyana said: "Let's get treatment, and as soon as you are cured, you will definitely fly with your parents to the sea. Promise?" The patient promised, but quickly forgot about it.

I connected it to the IV again and said: "You are an adult boy for me, I trusted you like a girl! Can you not let me down like that again?"

Tatiana Yakhimchik

nurse

And he obeyed — the next time Tatiana came with a round, he showed her with gestures: "I promised." "That's how we found contact," says the nurse. "I told him, 'I'm so proud of you! You didn't let me down like a real man."

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... Tatyana hardly left one patient, aged 16, from morning to evening. Covid knocked down a strong, quite healthy guy so that he could not walk, did not eat and lay with a temperature of 39. He was constantly taking blood for tests, prescribed something extra - one dropper, a second, a third, inhalations. Tatyana straightened his pillow, gave him water from a bottle - in this state they don’t want to drink, but they have to. When he needed to go to the toilet, Tatyana brought him and said: "I will turn away, but I will be here, all of a sudden you feel bad." The guy, of course, was shy. "I said, 'Don't mind me, I'm a medic. It is important to me that if you feel bad, I was there! God forbid, you fall and hit your head, I will never forgive myself for this." Tatyana says that "my soul hurt" even after the shift. Each nurse has "their own" patients, about whom they ask as soon as they come to job: "How is he?"

© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS

"All children get sick in different ways," says Tatyana. But no, they also need their own approach. And to parents too - because of stress, they can scream or cry. But, as the head physician Ismail Osmanov is sure, "no matter how parents communicate, they have the right to do so, because they have a sick child."

"I don't know what I'll do if he gets sick again"

My daughters got sick twice, in January and May this year. The eldest is five years old, she had a fever both times for two days, a little bit of snot and a throat. She watched cartoons, played, and in general everything went like her usual SARS. The youngest was one year and three months old in January. Both times she took ill for ten days. She had a sore throat, she didn’t eat anything, the temperature either dropped by itself, then rose to 38 and did not go astray. In general, it was also similar to a simple SARS, but it lasted three times longer.

Olga

My son fell ill twice, for the first time in September last year, when he was five years old. The second is three months later. Both times he lay with a rag. This is a child who does not sit still in any state! Usually, when he has SARS, he jumps, runs, and you just need to catch him in time and give him an antipyretic. He loves plasticine, sculpts every day, but here he refused it altogether. He also refused cartoons - he just lay and looked at one point. The son loves broccoli, eats it twice a day - and here he didn’t even want it. And even chocolate with tangerines! We poured water into it with a teaspoon. The temperature for the first time rose to 37.2, the second - up to 38. Both times the illness lasted five or six days, a serious condition - two or three days. And my husband and I - we were sick at the same time - were "turned off" for a long time.

Julia

Even if hospitalization is not required, the course of covid in children, like in adults, can be different - from "there was nothing at all, only the smells disappeared" and "the son did not particularly notice, Well, I coughed a little and had to sit in quarantine" until "the child could not get up, could not raise his arm or leg." And the consequences also happen - everything is like in adults.

© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS

Yulia, her husband and son during their illness still had "an atypical runny nose, from which nothing helped, with thick multi-colored mucus." Almost a year has passed since the second illness, but the runny nose has remained to this day since, although the otolaryngologist did not find any problems.

After both illnesses, it was like this: the son will play, play, then go to bed. He also did not eat meat, although he loves turkey very much. He lived mainly on bananas and chocolate, he said that "it's easier when you eat sweets." It lasted about three weeks and went away on its own

Yuliya

A week after the second illness, Olga's youngest daughter developed a rash, mostly on her arms. “We came to the dermatologist, he immediately asked: “Did you have covid?” - “Twice.” - “Well, everything is clear.” The rash went away for about a month, but there were no more problems.0003

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That is, there are chances for tangible consequences even with the mildest variant of the course of the disease.

On November 24, the Sputnik M vaccine for teenagers was registered in Russia. She can take root guys 12-17 years old. "My husband and I are vaccinated, and I'm really looking forward to the children's vaccine," Yulia says. "I'm afraid for my son." But her child is only six.

"My wife and I were discussing in the winter: what a pity that there is no vaccination for children!" - says Oleg, whose story we told at the beginning of the material. His son will soon be three years old. “I understand that the vaccine will reach the kids last. But as soon as the children are allowed to be vaccinated, I will immediately do it.

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