The return to face-to-face classes represents numerous emotional, psychological and academic challenges after the extensive period of virtual and hybrid classes. Keeping children within a healthy diet and without catching a cold is also a challenge, especially allergic children who, due to their condition, often have to miss school or go to the emergency room. To have an orientation and be able to deal with these issues, an Allergy Day will be held at the start of school activities on March 23 via zoom.
Face-to-face classes after the strict quarantine period due to the Covid 19 pandemic that forced children and teachers to adapt to new ways of learning using technological platforms, brings up respiratory diseases that frequently manifest in children, such as allergies.
Allergic children present the same general problems as other children, and they also have specific problems derived from their symptoms and treatment. Sometimes because of their illness they are absent and other times the physical aspect of some allergic diseases such as dermatitis, can lead to a certain degree of rejection by peers or misunderstanding by teachers.
The relationship between viral infections and respiratory allergy in preschool and school age, and Covid Vaccines, their importance in the allergic child will be the topics addressed in this webinar that will feature the dissertation of Dr. Sebastián Croce, renowned specialist in allergy and immunology, professor at the Catholic University and scientific secretary at the Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Association of Córdoba, Argentina.
Representing our country will be Dr. Héctor Castro, with extensive experience as an infectologist and pediatrician and current director of the Expanded Program on Immunizations (PAI) of the Ministry of Health.
It will be coordinated by Professor Doctor Perla Alcaraz, president of the Paraguayan Society of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology and as panelists other members of the society such as Prof. Dr. Cinthia Pérez and Dr. Rosmary Stanley, secretary and member of the board of directors, respectively. Support this day, the Paraguayan Society of Pediatrics and the Paraguayan Society of Family Medicine.
Attendees will receive certificates with recertification points. You can register by entering your data in this link
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x3zSrtuJTlWI11fgTt30vQ
This type of activity is extremely important to continue developing the capacity for adaptation that face-to-face teaching demands, after the changes that have arisen as a result of the pandemic. Returning to the classroom, working collectively, often the lack of social distancing, very difficult to achieve in children, make diseases such as allergies resurface among the reasons for school absenteeism and are a topic of discussion within the educational community. .
