Psychological discomforts for minors: the other side of the pandemic
The positives active in San Marino return slightly: they are 505 in total of which 36 detects in the last 24 hours. However, the general picture of the pandemic in the Republic remains in place improvement: hospital admissions decrease by one unit, passing to 6, of which 3 in the intensive care unit, 499 people are in home isolation and there are no new deaths. Even among young people the times of stay are worrying psychological repercussions cause by the covid.
“The situation is definitely improving, as evidenced by the data – he explains Laura Viola, primary of pediatrics ISS – cases have gone from 18 positive a day to 6 in the last week. Out of the total of my patients ranging from zero to 14 years, there are 4,081 patients, I currently have 2,300 children who have contracted the disease and about 700 babies who are vaccinated. So let’s say that we covered more than 70% of the population “.
“I had started the opening of the schools – he adds – without masks just to try to facilitate what is there psychological condition in children, precisely because the psychological aspect at the moment matters to me much more than covid disease, precisely because of the improving numbers. Obviously we have been forced, given the increase in infections in recent months, to put the masks in the classroomrightly so, at the moment we have been asking for ten days together with the director of the education department of remove the masks at least at the counter. I assure you that I have a growing number of psychological damage: children who do not take off the mask even when not needed, children who hide behind the mask. Let’s say that many problems have arisen that perhaps there were in the background but that the covid has raised exponentially, this thing worries us a lot. With the minor serviceDr. Giardi and Dr. Guidi are in constant contact because we send many children for anorexia, bulimia, self-harm, closure precisely towards the outside world “.
As a pediatrician, adds Laura Viola, this is the aspect that I am interested in now overcome as soon as possible. It’s on the rise, he explains, too obesity among the youngest given the more sedentary life than in the past. It is therefore essential to reopen as soon as possible and restart with lots of sport and activities.
In the report, the interview with Laura Viola (Primary Pediatrics ISS)