How to prevent rheumatic fever attack

As the incidence of rheumatic fever and Streptococcus very close relations, the prevention of streptococcal infection is an important link in the prevention of rheumatic fever. The measures include the following ways. (1) to enhance the children, youth, health and sanitation missionary work in sports training, enhanced physique, and raise the capacity of resistance. Attention to the living health, local job cold, moisture resistance, actively preventing upper respiratory tract infection. (2) of scarlet fever, acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, otitis media and acute streptococcal infection go far in lymph nodes, treatment should be actively and thoroughly to avoid the attack of rheumatic fever. Penicillin antibiotics to the top. (3) removal of chronic lesions, the repeated tonsil infection, rheumatoid activities should be stopped after 2 to 4 months, be removed by operation. Before and after surgery to prevent infection with penicillin attack. On sinusitis, severe streptococcal infection, such as dental caries lesions, the same should also be thoroughly cleared. (4) the history of the patients with rheumatic fever should actively prevent streptococcus infection. Once again infection early enough to antibiotics, treatment time should be extended.