If once doctors from all over the world come together to an international consultation to determine the list of the most common diseases, this list will most likely be headed by a "banal ARVI". But is it as banal as it often seems to us?
When a child falls ill with ARVI for real, the prevalence of this disease for some reason does not greatly console the home. Consider the main signs of ARVI in children.
What is ARVI?
ARVI - acute respiratory viral infection - a disease of the upper respiratory tract, which is transmitted by airborne droplets. That is, when kissing, when using shared dishes, in closed, not enough ventilated rooms. Both the flu and rhinovirus infections, infections accompanied by catarrhal symptoms (reddening of the throat, runny nose, cough) are referred to SARS.
Symptoms of ARVI in children
Usually acute respiratory disease begins with "harmless sneezes". As a result of getting the infection on the nasal mucosa, the baby's body seeks to eliminate the enemy. Further this process is strengthened and a sniff is added to sneezing. Along with mucus, an unwanted virus must leave the body. (Therefore, it is so important to replenish the supplies of fluid in the body in time, without it the child can not cope and the virus can become the master of the situation.)
In addition, children with ARVI can complain that they have a headache, handles, legs, back, and begin to rub their eyes. As in adults, ARVI disease in children is accompanied by a headache, an aching joint, pain in the eyeballs. The onset of acute respiratory viral infection in many children is accompanied by vomiting and loose stools. The fact that your child is vomiting whenever he falls ill, and the neighbor is not, does not say that your disease is special. The virus can be the same. Just by virtue of its constitution, your child's body cope with the onset of the disease, "throwing off ballast." (However, it is possible that the fatty cheesecakes are to blame for everything, with which you tried to feed the baby? -This food will not make the sick kid easier for recovery, it should be left for later.)
The temperature in ARVI in children may not rise too high (and hold at around 37 ° C), but can reach 39.5 ° C. In the second case it is obvious that the organism perceived the attacking virus as threatening. It is with the help of heat that he tries to destroy the enemy.
ESR, a blood indicator that determines the inflammatory processes in the body, in ARI in children does not increase too high. The situation is different with this indicator, if a bacterial infection joins a viral disease.
Complications of ARVI in children
While the "simple ORVI" does not cause a large damage to the body, and 5-7 days after the onset of the disease with the correct
How to determine the onset of a bacterial disease? If the child became better on the third day of the virus, but after a few more days the condition worsened, the temperature began to rise (and get even higher than in the first days of the disease) - this indicates the attachment of a bacterial infection. It is in this case (and only in this case) that antibiotics should be used to treat ARVI.
It should also be said that an acute respiratory viral infection in an infant may occur in a more acute form than in older children, but it is for them that a rise in temperature is undesirable and dangerous. Therefore, in ARVI in children under one year should not engage in self-medication.