What is respiratory syncytial virus？
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In winter, there are more and more children with respiratory tract infections. Influenza caused by influenza virus and herpetic angina caused by Coxsackie virus are popular again, but there is one virus that everyone often ignores, that is, the leading role of popular science today, the most promising virus-respiratory syncytial virus.
Why is respiratory syncytial virus the most worthless?
The reason is simple. This virus mainly bullies babies.
What is respiratory syncytial virus?
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is not a new virus, so it has attracted everyone’s attention this year because the popularity of calling it this year far exceeds that of previous years and has the greatest impact on parents.
It infects infants and causes bronchiolitis. In fact, it is a special pneumonia. Children mainly show wheezing. Simply put, children are out of breath, children suffer, and parents feel even worse.
The manifestations of bronchiolitis
Respiratory syncytial virus infection mainly affects small infants, especially premature infants and infants under 6 months old.
Children often have fever, all of which are low fever, about 38 degrees. If children have high fever, they should not consider the virus infection.
At the beginning of the disease, nasal congestion and runny nose are the main manifestations, followed by cough and wheezing.
Babies often have shortness of breath, shortness of breath, cyanosis and flapping of the nose.
Lung auscultation can be heard with wheezing and wet rales.
Some infants can have respiratory failure, which is easy to cause heart failure.
Older children infected with the virus often show symptoms of colds or tracheitis, but they also have wheezing, but the symptoms are mild, and they don’t need to be hospitalized. This is why it has no promise.
How to treat bronchiolitis?
The mechanism of respiratory syncytial virus infection is complicated. Parents simply understand that children are allergic and prone to asthma symptoms, and there is no specific medicine for this virus infection.
Treatment is mainly symptomatic treatment, such as oxygen inhalation due to hypoxia, sputum aspiration to keep respiratory tract unobstructed, tracheal dilator to dilate trachea, antiallergic drugs to relieve wheezing symptoms, and severe hormone therapy.
Of course, serious children need ventilator treatment, which is a doctor’s business. Parents should care about what to do when their children go home.
Family treatment of bronchiolitis
After bronchiolitis caused by respiratory syncytial virus infection, it is difficult to return to normal level in a short period of time, which means that the child is getting better and going home, but the wheezing in the lungs continues to be bad, and he still needs to take medicine and atomization at home for some time.
Common antiasthmatic drugs: ambroxol, also known as Yitanjing; Anti-allergic drugs: loratadine or cetirizine; Leukotriene Receptor Antagonist: "Omnipotent" Shunerning.
In fact, these are symptomatic treatments. If you want to get well quickly, it is not easy to relapse and gasp. It is necessary to inhale hormones, such as budesonide atomization.
Of course, children don’t cooperate with atomization at all, so it is necessary to prepare a fog storage tank to inhale fluoxetine and salbutamol.
Fog storage tanks should be purchased online in Tmall or JD.COM. Parents are advised to keep them regularly. See the article link for details-there is also a constant home to maintain a certain temperature and humidity to avoid pollen inhalation.
Does bronchiolitis have sequelae?
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After active treatment, most bronchiolitis can recover completely, leaving no sequelae.
Some children are prone to wheezing again after infection, especially those with family history of allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis, eczema and asthma.
Some children are associated with asthma in the future.
How to prevent respiratory syncytial virus
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Respiratory syncytial virus has no specific treatment and no vaccine, so prevention is very important.
It’s important to open the window often at home for ventilation.
Small babies avoid contact with children with colds.
Adults don’t kiss children.
And breastfeeding is very important. Parents are advised to breastfeed until six months later.
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