For those who are parents The child is the eye of the heart. When a child has a slight discomfort, it makes him worry and think a lot. But if we get to know and understand the disease better, know the symptoms, know how to prevent and treat it, it can help relieve anxiety.
Respiratory viral infections that often occur in young children come to parents to know. Many people may confuse RSV, the flu, and the common cold.
RSV, a pediatric respiratory virus
The RSV virus can be transmitted through secretions, mucus, saliva, through coughing, sneezing, and direct contact.
symptom
- The initial symptoms are similar to the common flu, namely fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose, which in mild cases of the upper respiratory tract can heal on its own within 5-7 days.
- Some children have more symptoms than the flu: symptoms reach the lower respiratory tract with a cough with phlegm, accompanied by coughing and vomiting. Rapid, heavy breathing, difficulty breathing or wheezing may occur in severe cases.
treatment
- Treatment of general symptoms: intravenous fluids, oxygen, nasal rinsing to suction and drainage Phlegm in cases where mucus or mucus is heavily clogged.
- Topical treatment with bronchodilators Spray a special kind of saline solution. to reduce bronchospasm, wheezing, wheezing
- The use of Montelukast has been shown to reduce the severity of early wheezing and continued use of the drug to reduce recurrence.
protection
- There is currently no vaccine against the disease. Therefore, prevention is emphasized by increasing natural immunity by raising the child with breast milk.
- Avoid taking children to crowded places.
- Wear a mask at all times and wash your hands often
common cold and flu
How is the flu different from the common cold? The early symptoms are very similar, but the flu is symptomatic. noticeably more severe with high fever (39-40 C), headache, cough, severe fatigue, body aches, which may cause complications. severe and life-threatening In addition, influenza is highly contagious through breathing in the airborne droplets from coughing, sneezing, or close contact with objects contaminated with a sick person and carries the infection into the respiratory tract.
