Note To Parents: What You Need To Know About Influenza And SARS

2024 Author: Rachel Wainwright | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 07:39

Note to parents: what you need to know about influenza and SARS

It is known that children get sick 5-10 times more often than adults. Therefore, experienced parents are familiar with the symptoms and even treatments for most childhood ailments. But it's not always worth overestimating your knowledge.

If the baby is feeling very unwell, it is still better to see a doctor and not rely on your knowledge. The child's body has one dangerous feature: the condition can worsen much more rapidly than in adults. Therefore, not only the health, but also the life of the child may depend on the efficiency of the parents.

Traffic light rule

The most common childhood illness is ARVI. When making a diagnosis, the doctor evaluates the general picture, and not just individual reactions (for example, high temperature - it scares parents most of all, but is often a completely normal reaction of the body to the virus).

The main signals of the "traffic light" indicating that the child is sick are general disorders:

• indifference;
• lethargy;
• capriciousness;
• unwillingness to drink.

SARS can have specific symptoms in children of different ages:

• in newborns - poor sleep;
• in monthly babies - difficulty breathing;
• in children 3-4 months - redness and lacrimation, swollen lymph nodes;
• in children over 1 year of age, the infection affects not only the respiratory system, but also the digestive tract: abdominal pain and upset stool appear;
• two-year-olds may suffer from laryngitis and tracheitis.

A small educational program about ARVI and prevention

ARVI is a group of diseases with similar symptoms, which includes more than two hundred different viruses. And these diseases are better and easier to prevent than to cure. To do this, you need to strengthen and increase the child's immunity and get vaccinated on time (the vaccination period just falls on September-October).

During the epidemic:

• include in the child's diet foods rich in vitamins (especially vitamin C), take multivitamins and special preparations to strengthen the immune system (strictly as prescribed by the doctor);
• avoid crowded places. If someone is sick at home, make sure that the child does not come close to the sick person, use medical masks, ventilate the room more often and carry out wet cleaning;
• walk more in the fresh air, but dress the child for the weather - do not wrap him up;
• observe the regime, provide the baby with a good sleep.

The incubation period after infection with ARVI lasts from 2 hours to 3 days: it depends on the child's immunity. The virus settles on the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx, where it actively reproduces. Then it enters the bloodstream and actively spreads throughout the body. It takes a lot of energy to fight the usurper, hence the weakness and rise in temperature, and other symptoms soon appear. There are no more than 48 hours to stop the disease: antiviral drugs will come to the rescue.

Effective medicines

At the first symptoms of a flu or a cold, the baby should be given one of the proven antiviral agents, for example, Citovir-3. The three main components of Citovir-3 powder (sodium thymogen, bendazole and ascorbic acid) have long been used in medicine and have been well studied. It is their combination in a certain dosage that provides an effective complex therapeutic effect for any ARVI in children.

The drug is suitable for children from 1 year old, compatible with other symptomatic medications. Today, the neutral taste of Citovir-3 powder remains almost the only hypoallergenic antiviral agent developed specifically for atopic children. Children who are not prone to allergic reactions can be given Citovir-3 with strawberry, orange or cranberry flavor.

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