1. Get the Rotavirus Vaccine
Rotavirus mainly affects children, and your pediatrician may have already alerted you to the need to get your child vaccinated. The rotavirus vaccine is administered in three shots, ideally spread about 2 months apart during infancy. It has a 75 percent efficacy at preventing infection and eliminates virtually any possibility that your child will develop serious symptoms if infection does occur. Make sure that you get the RotaTeq vaccine for your child. Competing vaccines have been taken off the market in the past because they created an increased risk of your child developing a bowel obstruction.
2. Practice Cleanliness
The spread of any virus can be avoided through conscientious cleansing, especially hand-washing. This is especially important if you or your child are frequently around infants. Rotavirus spreads rapidly once an epidemic begins. You should always wash your hands after handling a soiled diaper. While most adults who contract the virus don't develop symptoms, you can still pass the virus on to susceptible children if you contract it. Dirty diapers are one of the most common ways adults come into contact with the virus.
3. Keep an Infected Child at Home
If your child is unlucky, contracts rotavirus and develops the diarrhea and fever symptoms associated with it, prevent the further spread of the condition by keeping your child home. Doctors recommend that you avoid exposing an infected person to other children at least until the diarrhea has stopped. This is the same way that large-scale outbreaks of rotavirus are managed by medical professionals. Infected people are put in isolation to prevent them from transmitting the virus.
