Hello everyone, I am a pediatrician Kong Lingkai, and I have been giving a pediatrician who is determined to fight to the death.
After having a child, on the premise of ensuring the correctness, popular science begins to be down-to-earth and warm.
Since the beginning of winter, children's fever, cough and wheezing have begun to become severe. Today we will talk about the most common cause - respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.
What is respiratory syncytial virus infection?
Simply put, respiratory syncytial virus is the most common pathogen of respiratory infection of in infants and young children.
is usually prevalent in winter and spring. During this period, this viral infection accounts for almost 70% of all respiratory infections.
A few days ago, a parent brought the siblings to the hospital. The sister was 4 years old and had fever and cough for 6 days. She started to runny nose at the beginning. After one day, she started coughing and gradually worsened. After another day, the child started to have fever and suddenly reached 39 degrees Celsius.
The parents immediately took the child to the hospital. After the blood test, the doctor said it was a bacterial infection and prescribed an oral cephalosporin. After taking it for 3 days, not only did the fever not improve, but the cough also worsened.
Another blood test for the child. This time the doctor said that the white blood cells were lowered, and the virus infection was combined, and ribavirin was used again. After 2 days, the child's cough was still quite severe, but his body temperature began to improve.
My younger brother is now 9 months old. After my sister fell ill, my younger brother showed fever and occasionally coughing. However, on the day my younger brother came to see the doctor, he suddenly showed signs of being tired when breathing, and he could still hear the sound of panting when exhaling.
In the middle of winter, the siblings have this kind of fever, cough and asthma problem. The most common one is respiratory syncytial virus infection.
If I tell my parents directly that both siblings are infected with the same virus, then 80% of the parents will not believe it. The siblings are obviously different.
So, I took some snot from the nostrils of the two children for testing. After 30 minutes, the results were returned. As expected, the RSV was marked with .
Why does one disease have two different manifestations?
is mainly caused by different places where the virus invades. For babies under 2 years old, this virus is very easy to invade the lungs and lead to wheezing.
But for older children, the virus may go to the throat and stop going down, just coughing.
This disease is a viral infection, so don’t use antibiotics, it is a treatment for bacterial infection.
This virus can be removed by the body, so don’t use antiviral drugs, such as ribavirin, which is not only unhelpful, but may also have side effects.
After my sister took this medicine, her fever improved, and it was completely time for her to recover from the disease.
The child is coughing severely or gasping, so don’t worry?
must be piped, which can be relieved by atomization. Although it cannot reduce the course of the disease, it at least makes the child feel comfortable.
In addition, the child's fever must also be treated, and the child cannot be allowed to burn it.
Do the above two points well and wait until the child recovers by himself. Generally, it will take 1 to 2 weeks to fully recover.
or above is the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, but the disease is also very contagious and can easily lead to infections among other children and family members. Please be sure to pay attention.
Article source: DingXiangYiSheng (ID: DingXiangYiSheng) Author: Kong Lingkai
