Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Causes of bronchial asthma in children

The study of families of children with bronchial asthma suggests that the total contribution of genetic factors to the formation of bronchial asthma is 82%.

Bronchial asthma in children

Bronchial asthma is a chronic allergic inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract, in which many cells and cellular elements participate. Chronic inflammation causes the development of bronchial hyperreactivity, which leads to repeated episodes of wheezing, dyspnea, a feeling of stuffiness in the chest and cough, especially at night or in the early morning.

Bronchitis in children

Bronchitis is an inflammatory process in the bronchi of various etiologies (infectious, allergic, chemical, physical, etc.). The term "bronchitis" covers the lesions of bronchi of any caliber: small bronchioles - bronchiolitis, trachea - tracheitis or tracheobronchitis.

How is acute laryngitis treated (false croup)?

Treatment of acute laryngitis (false croup) is aimed at preventing the stenosis of the larynx, when it occurs - to restore the patency of the larynx.

Diagnosis of acute laryngitis

Diagnosis of acute laryngitis is based on clinical data, with stenosing laryngitis - on the data of direct laryngoscopy.

Symptoms of acute laryngitis

Acute laryngitis usually develops on the 2nd-2nd day of an acute infection of the upper respiratory tract and is characterized by hoarseness. When acute laryngotracheitis joins a sonorous "barking" cough. In the lungs - wired dry wheezing rales, they are listened to mainly by inhalation. The child is excited.

What causes acute laryngitis?

The cause of acute laryngitis is mainly viral. The leading etiological role is played by parainfluenza viruses, mainly of the first type, followed by PC viruses, influenza viruses, mainly type B, adenoviruses. Less common are herpes simplex virus and measles. Bacterial infection plays a lesser role in the etiology of acute laryngitis, but. As a rule, leads to a more severe current.

Acute laryngitis (false croup) in children

Acute stenosing laryngitis is a laryngitis with an inflammatory edema of the mucous membrane and submucosal tissue of the subglottic region of the larynx, resulting in a narrowing of the larynx of the larynx or larynx and trachea.

Acute sinusitis in children

Acute sinusitis accounts for 30-35% of all cases of upper respiratory tract infections. Acute sinusitis is recorded from the period of the newborn (acute etmoiditis), but more often at the age of 3-6 years (acute etmoiditis and acute sinusitis). Acute frontal and acute sphenoidal sinusitis and the more so the pansinusitis is observed less often.

Treatment of angina and acute pharyngitis in children

Treatment of angina and acute pharyngitis varies depending on the etiology of acute tonsillitis and acute pharyngitis. With streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis, antibiotics are shown, they are not shown in viral, with mycoplasmal and chlamydia antibiotics are indicated only in cases when the process is not limited to tonsillitis or pharyngitis, but descends into the bronchi and lungs.

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