Little Nosey Ones

Monitoring Period :  Week 01 (30 Dec 2018 – 5 Jan 2019) Total Number of Cases Reported :  367 Trending :  Downwards First week into 2019. The number is lower than the last week of 2018 but compared with the same period last year, we are starting the new year on a slightly higher baseline. 

Screen time includes everything, using mobile phone, playing video games, watching TV, or squandering time on laptop. Excess screen time is such a big problem today. Children’s screen time is very high these days, ranging from 4 hours to even 10 hours a day. Yes. It can become that bad. So how to limit screen time for kids? What’s So Bad with Excessive Screen Time? Parents complain that their children are completely lost. They don’t study, they don’t eat, they don’t interact with family members. Their only friends they have are online. They don’t go out to play, just lying in the bed all day, lost in their virtual world. They don’t sleep on time. It’s all because the child’s life revolves around mobile, video games, laptop and TV. Screen time has consumed their child! What Can be Done? Let’s begin with things that you shouldn’t do. Things that don’t work and can make the problem even worse. Requesting . Sometimes you think if you just be nice to them, if you ask ca...

Over the past 4 months thereabout, I have been keeping close tab on the hand, foot and mouth (HFMD) situation in Singapore’s preschools. Though I did not start from the beginning of 2018, I do compiled more than 3 months worth of data to put forward a list of top 5 preschools with prolonged HFMD transmission. How is Prolonged HFMD Transmission Calculated? There are 2 criteria to be met before the Ministry of Health (MOH) will flag out a preschool as having prolonged HFMD transmission. Having 10 or more cases of HFMD over a continuous period of at least 17 days; OR 13% or more students in the preschool suffering from HFMD over a continuous period of at least 17 days. In more severe cases, the preschools will be ordered to close for 10 days if: The school has more than 16 cases of HFMD over a continuous period of at least 25 days; OR 13% or more students in the preschool suffering from HFMD over a continuous period of at least 25 days. MOH releases this data twice a wee...