Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Mike Gittelman, MD, Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center and the experts at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center want to make sure that families and children stay safe while playing outdoors this summer.
Summertime provides families with the wonderful opportunity to play outdoors and socialize with other children, but it is important for parents to remember to keep their children safe from potentially harmful bugs such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas, when spending time outside. Mosquitoes can transmit West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, eastern equine encephalitis virus and even dengue; ticks can transmit Lyme disease and other serious infections and fleas can transmit plague.
During the summer months it is critical that parents remember to protect their children from bugs by using proper insect repellent and avoiding areas with high insect populations,” said Dr. Gittelman.
To prevent illnesses from these summer bugs, The American Academy of Pediatrics and Dr. Gittelman give the following tips on how to keep children safe:
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