Respiratory System Disease
Nasopharyngitis (common cold):
Common cold is the oldest infection that is the most prevalent respiratory infection in children. Most often, Children are affected to common cold six times during one year. The time of affection to common cold will be increased by her/his going to kindergarten or group games.
This infection can be out broken quickly and shunt serious complications. Rhinovirus is the most prevalent factor of respiratory infection that occurs in nasopharynx. It includes vascular expansion and dilation under mucus, infiltration of uni-nucleus cell and necrosis of flat cells covering mucus that is high and watery at first then it becomes thick and purulent.
Clinical symptoms:
Clinical symptoms start usually 1-3 days after contact with infection. And the first sign is usually feeling itchy or tickle in pharynx.
Subsequent signs are:
Nose drip, sneeze, nose congestion that makes nutrition difficult for infants, cough and throat sore, eye drip, muscle aces, sometimes fever, light headache, muscular pains and respiration.
Complications:
Transfer of cold viruses to lungs causes bronchitis that second bacterial infection may be added to it. This infection may affect ears and sinusitis by contagion to sinuses.
Instruction to family:
Often cold is cured during one week. The following actions are effective to remedy the signs:
Keep a child's room warm. Increase moisture of child's room. Give child a lot of drink. Increase the number of mealtimes for an affected child but reduce the amount. If an infant avoids feeding, or her/his fever is 39 c or seems not well, consult a doctor within 24 hours. If cough is not cured after 5 days and other signs last for 10 days or new signs occur like earache, see a doctor.
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