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Thames Hospital Highly Contagious
Thames Hospital Highly Contagious
Thames Hospital has a number of cases of diarrhoea and vomiting and asks GPs and rest homes to manage patients within the community unless they are so ill they urgently need hospitalisation.
The cases are highly contagious. Staff implemented infection control measures and notified the Medical Officer of Health.
Five inpatients, two relatives and five staff members are ill.
Acting manager Rodger Clark said hospital-based patients with the symptoms were in isolation, as were the affected staff, and the bug had not spread through the hospital thanks to infection control measures quickly put in place today.
The message to the Thames Coromandel community is to stay at home if unwell.
The recommendation is to wash your hands regularly and a hand hygiene campaign used at Waikato Hospital is in use at Thames.
Preventing dehydration is the main treatment in the initial stages of diarrhoea.
Making a 1 (one) litre solution using salt, sugar and water.
Ingredients:
* one level teaspoon of salt
* eight
level teaspoons of sugar
* one litre of clean drinking
or boiled water and then cooled
5 cupfuls (each cup about
200 ml.)
Preparation Method:
Stir the mixture till the salt and sugar dissolve.
Avoid tea, coffee or
alcohol. Dehydration can cause serious problems, especially
in babies, children, older adults and those with special
health problems.
We also recommend people follow these
basic principles:
* social distancing
* hand
hygiene
* cough and sneeze etiquette; and
* enhanced
cleaning (using a bleach-based cleaning agent to kill
viruses)
* putting away/enhanced cleaning of shared
equipment, toys etc.
ENDS
Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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