Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Symptoms of adenovirus infection

Symptoms of adenovirus infection in children usually begin acutely, but various signs of adenovirus infection appear not simultaneously, but consistently.

Adenovirus infection in children

Adenovirus infection in children is an acute infectious respiratory disease with fever, intoxication, damage to the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, with damage to the conjunctiva of the eyes and lymphoid tissue.

Parainfluenza in children

Parainfluenza is an acute disease of the respiratory tract with moderate intoxication and a predominant lesion of the mucous membranes of the nose and larynx. In the general structure of viral diseases of the respiratory system in children, parainfluenza accounts for 10 to 30%. The proportion of cases of parainfluenza depends on the time of year, the incidence of influenza and other acute respiratory viral infections, the age of children and the completeness of diagnosis. The highest incidence is registered among children of the first 2 years of life.

Treatment of influenza

Treatment of children with influenza is carried out mainly at home. Hospitalization is carried out according to clinical, epidemiological and social indications. Patients with influenza should be hospitalized in a boxed or semi-boxed department.

Signs of the flu

The duration of the incubation period of influenza is from several hours to 2 days with influenza A and up to 3-4 days with influenza B. The disease begins sharply, with the rise in body temperature to high values (39-40 ° C), accompanied by chills, general weakness, , muscular and joint pain. Fever reaches a maximum at the end of the first, less often on the second day of the disease.

Influenza in children

Influenza is a pervasive infection with epidemic and pandemic diseases. In the interepidemic period, the incidence is supported by sporadic cases and local outbreaks. In the course of the epidemic / pandemic, natural immunization of the majority of the population occurs and a decrease in the susceptible population, which leads to a rapid decrease in the incidence.

Coxsackie and ECHO infection in children

Coxsackie and ECHO infection - a group of acute diseases caused by enteroviruses Coxsackie and ECHO, has a variety of clinical manifestations from mild febrile states and simple carrier of the virus to severe meningoencephalitis. Myocarditis, myalgia.

Extraintestinal yersiniosis (pseudotuberculosis) in children

Pseudotuberculosis (Far Eastern scarlet fever, pasteurellosis, acute mesenteric lymphadenitis, etc.) is an acute infectious disease from the group of zoonoses with general intoxication, fever, scarlet fever, and with damage to other organs and systems.

Symptoms of cytomegalovirus infection

Symptoms of cytomegalovirus infection in children in typical cases are characterized by the presence of a triad of signs: jaundice, increased baking and spleen, and hemorrhagic purpura.

Causes and pathogenesis of cytomegalovirus infection

The cause of cytomegalovirus infection is the DNA virus of the Herpesviridae family. On morphological properties this virus is similar to the herpes simplex virus.

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