Advice for the prevention of health after 10 years

• April 26, 2024

At the beginning of the second decade of life, boys and girls experience the first cambios physicists , hormonal and emotional that will prepare them for reproductive stage . Without a doubt, it is a good time to maintain a specific follow-up to health, to corroborate the optimal development of each pre-adolescent and to follow up on treatments necessary.

Among the adolescent health programs of the IMSS recommends: - Nutrition: Measure weight and height, in addition to assessing nutritional status. - Prevention of disease control: Apply vaccines (measles-rubella, tetanus-diphtheria and hepatitis B), deliver condoms in an informed manner, promote tooth brushing for the elimination and detection of dentobacterial plaque. - Timely detection of diseases: assess visual acuity between 12 and 15 years, as well as request smear microscopy for the detection of BAAR in patients who have cough with phlegm. - Reproductive health: promote contraceptive methods for adolescents who have begun their sexual life.

These actions become more important if they become aware and are supported by the same parents, who have the opportunity to share this new stage of their lives with their children.

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