The Department of Health (DOH) in the Ilocos Region has urged parents to have their children dewormed to control and treat intestinal parasitic worm infections.
Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, regional director of DOH-Region 1, made this appeal as the health department sets to launch its second round of national school deworming day on January 27 and community deworming program this month.
“Parents should not be afraid to have their child dewormed because during the deworming program of the department that was conducted on July last year, only less than one percent of the dewormed kids experienced side effects,” said Cabotaje explaining that the side effects are either anxiety or nervousness.
“It is better for a child to be dewormed than not, because parasitic worms can still be erratic and may come out from various parts in the body if the child has already obtained more worm load in his or her intestines,” she said.
Cabotaje advised the parents to give their child a meal two hours before they take the deworming tablet called albendazole or mebendazole.
She also advised the parents to give their consents because it will be required by the Department of Education (DepEd) before they administer the deworming tablet to the child.
“DOH is targeting to deworm 719, 492 pupils aging five to 12 years and enrolled in public elementary schools in the Ilocos Region,” said Cabotaje during the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Forum held on Thursday at the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-Pangasinan office.
Likewise, she urged parents to have their with children ages one to four years old dewormed at the municipal health center and undergo the DOH’s community deworming program that will run until the end of January.
The deworming tablet will be given free of charge. (MCA/ Elsha Marie B. Soria/PIA-1, Pangasinan)
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