Top Four Things I learned About "Mom Protect"
Mothers
nowadays are the great multi-tasker. Gone are the days when mothers just stayed
at home to take care of the children and their household. With the many roles
moms have to play, keeping the family happy and healthy is always top priority.
This becomes even more challenging when the rainy season ushers in even more
diseases, but with the unpredictability of the weather nowadays, how can moms
keep their families safe from illnesses all year round?
Mommy
Mundo and the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination (PFV) has banded together
to help address these concerns and educate mothers on proactive family
prevention through "Mom Protect."
“Mom
Protect” highlights the importance of awareness of and access to new and better
health prevention methods as family health and wellbeing is any mom's top
priority.
With
the government consistently emphasized the importance of vector control to stay
vigilant and be prepared against diseases, especially those that are
mosquito-borne this rainy season, it is the mother’s part to take proactive approach against unpredictable foes
to protect the family. Proactive prevention constitutes a three-pronged
strategy: Awareness, Diligent practice, and Sharing.
During
the discussion in the presscon held last October 26, 2017, Mommy Mundo and the
PFV aspire to give Filipino families peace of mind amid public health concerns
by thorough preparation together.
Dr.
Cecilia Montalban, President of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination
further explained, "With the information and resources already available
to us moms, we know casualties of any of these diseases will lessen and lessen
until there are none at all."
Here
are the top four things I learned during the discussion:
Mosquito-borne
diseases like Dengue and Japanese encephalitis, as well as highly-communicable
ones like flu are vaccine-preventable illnesses. With right knowledge moms can
rise shoulder to shoulder in protecting families against these illnesses.
Prevention
is always better than cure, especially if cure is not always available.
Advances in medical science have given us highly effective ways to avoid the
pain and costs of diseases through vaccination.
Moms
can become actively aware and alert by reaching out to their doctors to know
more about prevention methods they can do or apply at home. This is also to
ensure that they are thoroughly updated on new medical developments that might
be of help in the future.
The passing
of accurate information forward to other mothers is important as it encourages
moms to join communities online to connect with people who share the same
experience and those who have successfully combatted these illnesses
Just
as long as the moms knows about the helpful, effective, and efficient solutions
against vaccine-preventable diseases, these will empower them and help to live worry-free
through proactive protection and prevention.
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