CVID-19 disease does not avoid the slightest. Parents often do not know how to proceed when their child gets sick, they cannot evaluate the severity of symptoms. The Slovak Society of Primary Paediatric Care and Health Department has prepared manuals to help parents. Not only do parents find them on the website of pediatricians.
The head specialist of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for general care of children and adolescents MUDr. Elena Prokopová advises the child to test for the symptoms of the disease by home test and after a positive result contact pediatrician and order it for PCR test. –A positive-tested child with symptoms must have a resting regime, adequate fluid intake and a healthy diet. Elena Prokop. Acomplements parents find comprehensive advice; recommendations and information from paediatric doctors on the www.pediatridetom.sk. On the basis of a manual to determine the severity of the child's health the parent is able to determine whether home treatment is sufficient, whether it is necessary to contact the doctor the next day, or whether the medical condition requires urgent assistance immediately, stated the chief specialist of the Ministry. Symptoms of the disease are divided into three colors of red, orange and green zones. As a result, a parent can determine the severity of the disease and act. This division is part of the document "Pediatrical recommendations for the management of child and adolescent patients related to COVID 19" published on the website of MZ SR https://www.standardprocedures.sk/procedures-pre-ambulance/.