Children are the key health protection population for epidemic prevention and control. How to protect children's health when the Spring Festival is approaching? A few days ago, at the press conference held by the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, Wang Quan, director of the emergency department of Beijing Children's Hospital, reminded that during the Spring Festival, parents and children should try not to go to places where people gather, and should try to bring or not bring young children to dinner and parties. She also reminded that parents should pay attention to traffic safety during the Spring Festival to prevent children from falling and burning. After children are infected with COVID-19, it may be difficult to clearly express their symptoms. What situations should parents pay special attention to? Wang Quan revealed that parents should first pay attention to their children's mental state. If children are found to be depressed, drowsy or irritable, or even groan, "there may be some children with consciousness disorders or even convulsions, which are all parents should be vigilant". In addition, when the child's breathing rate is significantly accelerated, even wheezing, choking or hoarseness occurs, the voice is broken when coughing, or the voice is like barking of a dog, or even the voice cannot be heard, parents need to pay special attention and take the child to a doctor in time. "For young babies, nodding or even shrugging during breathing indicates that they have difficulty breathing," said Wang Quan. In addition, parents should also pay attention to whether the child has feeding difficulties, refusal to eat, frequent vomiting, diarrhea or decreased urine volume, and whether the temperature is 41 degrees Celsius or above, fever is more than 3 days, accompanied by new skin rash and other conditions. Special attention should be paid to timely medical treatment. With the Spring Festival approaching, what should we pay attention to for child protection after traveling and returning home? There are many dinners during the Spring Festival. How should parents strengthen child protection? In this regard, Wang Quan suggested not to arrange long-distance trips for children as much as possible. "If the child is sick, don't take him out". Before traveling, prepare masks and washable hand sanitizers or disinfected wipes. Parents should understand the epidemic situation and personnel flow in the destination, "try not to go to places where people gather, because it will increase the risk of infection of children". Wang Quan said, "If you travel by public transport, it is recommended that you do a good job of personal protection for parents and children on the way and wear masks in a standardized way". For young children, Wang Quan said that children under 3 years old are not recommended to wear masks regularly. If possible, try to keep a safe social distance and keep the sanitary etiquette of coughing and sneezing. For their protection, we should do a good job of hand hygiene, "try to avoid children touching everywhere, especially after touching other things, we should stop touching eyes, mouth and nose". Wang Quan said that the common injuries to children during the Spring Festival mainly include road traffic injuries, fireworks and firecrackers injuries, burns, falls and other injuries. In particular, she reminded that "parents must walk around the car before starting the car to ensure that there are no children around the car, so as not to cause injury." When parents take their children to the car, they should be equipped with appropriate safety protection measures according to their children's age, height and weight, including safety seats, booster cushions or safety belts, and provide them with standard equipment. "This can greatly reduce the injury of children in road safety injuries." Falling injury is also one of the most common injuries of children during the Spring Festival. Wang Quan reminded that,