Inspection and prophylactic examination of children

Clinical examination is considered to be the leading method of prevention of diseases used in medical and preventive institutions. This method provides preventive maintenance of the population of the state. Of particular importance in this work is the medical examination of children.

Regardless of where the child was born, in the countryside or in the city, from the first days to the very end of the secondary school, it is under the supervision of medical workers. It should be noted that the importance of the medical examination of children up to a year.

This method of observation is divided into two interrelated working sections. From the successful implementation of the activities of each of them the health of patients largely depends.

Clinical examination of children, thus, includes :

1. Periodic polyclinic examinations with a preventive purpose. Inspections begin with the first days of life. The purpose of such events is to evaluate and study the child's development, the state of his health, and also to identify the initial stages of pathologies or their predisposition to them. As a result of these examinations, health and preventive measures are prescribed.
2. Re-active monitoring of patients taken for dispensary registration, as well as their recovery and treatment.

Surveillance is carried out by a district pediatrician, a nurse of a polyclinic, nursing staff of a pre-school institution and other specialist doctors.

It is necessary to say that events held by parents are of great importance. They must understand the importance of preventive examinations that are carried out in this or that age of the child. Timely and correct recommendations on the organization of the regime of the day, care, hardening, nutrition, prevention of diseases parents can receive at the next examination in a preschool or polyclinic. At the same time, it should be noted that the orphanage is being screened. Typically, activities include standard surveys.

It is necessary to understand that intensive development and growth of a child, especially in combination with an unfavorable ecological situation, can provoke the development of various deviations in health. The main task of specialists is to reveal the initial stages of changes in time. As a result of the examination according to the age, the child is given a certain regimen, physical exercises, nutrition, methods of hardening, preventive measures are recommended.

It is proved by medical practice that the earlier the deviations in health are revealed, the easier and faster it is possible to cope with them. So, by means of medical examination, serious pathologies such as anemia, exudative diathesis, rickets, neurotic reactions, as well as various diseases of the respiratory, cardiovascular and other systems can be prevented. Early and preschool age are characterized by rapid morphological growth and development of systems and organs of the body. At this time, there are several transitional periods: admission to preschool, and then - to school.

Often ill children, predisposed to diseases of acute respiratory infections, otitis, rhinitis, are put on special dispensary supervision.