Influenza and SARS.How to distinguish influenza from ARVI?Prevention and treatment of folk remedies at home

The expectation of winter is different for everyone. Children are eagerly waiting for vacations, New Year's gifts, winter games. And adults freeze in anticipation of endless colds and new strains of flu. How to enjoy the charms of winter without harm to health, let's try to understand this article.

Main winter diagnoses:
• acute respiratory disease
• acute respiratory viral infection,
ASI • influenza is a type of acute respiratory viral infection caused by the influenza virus

IMPORTANT: Treatment of respiratory diseases requires attention and a certain literacy. Correctly chosen algorithm of treatment will help you to avoid complications.

ARVI symptoms in adults. How many days does ARVI stay?

More than 200 virus-pathogens are known to science.

Different viral groups are different symptoms.

IMPORTANT: Adults are most susceptible to rhinovirus.

Respiratory-viral infection in children

Children are most often affected by parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial infection.

With parainfluenza there is a moderate intoxication syndrome, which lasts for about 6 days( peak of the disease is the 3rd day).In severe illness, nausea, vomiting, and meningeal symptoms may occur.

The main symptom of respiratory syncytial infection is a dry cough.

IMPORTANT: Typical complications in ARVI in children( especially in infancy): obstructive bronchitis, respiratory failure.

Than to treat ARVI in adults and children?

Unfortunately, whatever miraculous healings pharmaceutical companies promised us, the treatment of ARI is symptomatic. This treatment only removes unpleasant symptoms. At a high temperature, you will be prescribed an antipyretic, and if the nose is blocked, vasoconstrictive drops.

In this case, antipyretic or vasoconstrictive drug in no way affect the rate of recovery and will not prevent the possible complications.
Accordingly, the question "Are antibiotics necessary for viral influenza?" An unambiguous answer is no.

Antibiotics are prescribed only in the event of bacterial complications.

As antipyretic, it is desirable to use paracetamol( in any dosage form) or ibuprofen.

IMPORTANT: Paracetamol has a high degree of effectiveness precisely in ARVI.The effect of paracetamol is reduced or absent in bacterial infections or in complications of acute respiratory viral infection. If paracetamol does not work - you should immediately consult a doctor.

For all its relative safety, paracetamol remains a drug: take it in strict accordance with the prescription of the doctor.

IMPORTANT: Taking aspirin during ARVI can provoke Reye's syndrome - a disease in which the liver and brain are affected.

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Treatment of acute respiratory infections during pregnancy

For a quick recovery you need:

• Clean cool moist air indoors( temperature - up to 20 ° C, humidity - 50-70%).Dry air is harmful to health. If you do not have a special device that moistens the air, you can use this simple

design. • Drinking drink ( up to 3-4 liters per day).It is recommended to drink lingonberry, cranberry, orange fruit drinks containing a large amount of vitamin C. General warming brings warm tea with raspberries, honey and lemon.

IMPORTANT: The temperature of the liquid should correspond to the body temperature.

• Inhalations with alkaline mineral water , because the viruses are afraid of alkali.
• Rinse the nose of to avoid drying out of the mucosa. The drier in the room, the more mucous is treated.

A solution for moistening the mucosa can be done at home:
1 teaspoon of table salt should be dissolved in 1 liter of boiled water.

• Symptomatic therapy can look like this

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Prevention of ARVI in adults and children

The virus is transmitted from person to person. In the period of epidemics of ARVI should

• Limit one's stay in places of large concentrations of people
• Make many walks
• Often to ventilate the premises of
• Regularly conduct wet cleaning with soap and alkaline solution
• Often and thoroughly wash hands with soap
• Moisten mucous membranesnose with special saline solutions for administration to the nasal passages or pharmacological saline
• Treat the nasal mucosa with oxolin ointment
• Regularly rinse the mouth with saline solutionm( 1 teaspoon of table salt per 1 liter of boiled water).You can also rinse your mouth with a tincture of calendula or eucalyptus.
• Comprehensive rest
• Proper nutrition

Popular methods of prevention and treatment of acute respiratory infections

Viruses have been living with us since time immemorial. And all this time the mankind conducts with them an incessant struggle. As a result, in the arsenal of our grandparents, an incredible number of recipes and methods of prevention, treatment of many ailments, including viral infections, has been accumulated. Here are some of them:

Inhalation with potato steam

• For inhalations only potatoes welded in uniforms are used: It is in the potato peel that all the useful substances are found: potassium, chlorogenic, coffee, gallic acid, finitunents, polyphenols
• Wet potato steam can burn mucous. The water in which the potatoes were boiled must necessarily merge. You need to breathe a warm steam coming directly from the potato
• You can not use green potatoes. In its peel contains a toxic substance solanine

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IMPORTANT: Children under 5 years of age are given inhalations only on the advice of a doctor!

Hot milk with honey for cough

Recipe: Mix 1 cup of warm milk and 1 teaspoon of honey.

IMPORTANT: In case of viral and bacterial infections, hot drinks are contraindicated! The temperature of the drink should match the body temperature!

Milk with figs on cough

Suitable for everyone: children, adults, future moms. The only contraindication: individual intolerance to one of the components of the mixture.

Recipe:

• For 1 liter of milk( the fatter milk is, the better) 5 figs are taken( you can use dried fruits).Milk is brought to a boil and cooked on a slow fire for about one third
• The mixture requires constant stirring. After boiling the pan should be well wrapped and leave to languish for at least 3 hours. As a result, a honey-colored liquid appears, in a consistency resembling a syrup
• . Store the mixture in a refrigerator. Eat half a glass 30 minutes before meals 2-3 times a day. It is desirable to preheat the mixture before use. Perfectly suited as a prophylactic fortifying agent

Increased intake of vitamin C

The average daily intake of vitamin C is contained in:

• 200 g of cabbage
• 40 g of currant
• 80 g of dill
• 50 g of sea buckthorn
• 80 g of Brussels sprouts
• 150 g of kiwi
• 150 g of anycitrus

It is enough to eat one of these products every day, and your body will always get the necessary amount of vitamin C. Do not forget about the rest of the vitamins.

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How to distinguish ARVI from influenza in adults? How to distinguish influenza from ARVI in a child?

IMPORTANT: The presence of the influenza virus in the body can detect only a blood test.

How does the flu virus begin in adults? Common symptoms of the flu

In adults, the main symptoms of influenza are a sharp rise in temperature to 39-40 degrees, chills. Intoxication manifests itself in the form of a headache in the frontal region, muscle pains, pain in the joints, bones, painful movements of eyeballs, nasal congestion, dryness in the throat, general weakness.

In case of severe illness, various types of bleeding are possible, rashes, repeated vomiting, loose stools, etc.

What are the symptoms of flu in children, in infants?

In the first hours of influenza illness the child is shivering. He is looking for warmth: he clings to you or climbs under the blanket. There is a state of drowsiness. The temperature rises sharply.
In children up to three months in the first hours of illness, the temperature may not rise at all or increase slightly. But the behavior of the baby differs from the usual: he is capricious, becomes whiny, noisily snorts, there is a loss of appetite.

Is there flu without fever?

Influenza is always accompanied by high fever! High temperature - the reaction of human immunity to the virus. The absence of temperature may indicate a weakening of immunity. It is very dangerous!

IMPORTANT: Any departure from normal state of health, even without a rise in temperature, requires close observation for 2-3 days. If the symptoms do not improve, you should immediately consult a doctor!

What are the complications after the flu and their symptoms?

Complications after the flu: pneumonia, bronchitis, lung abscess

Symptoms:
• temperature 39-40 degrees
• dry cough, sometimes with bloody
• increased sweating

Complication after the flu: sinusitis

Symptoms:
• dense nasal congestion
•dense mucous discharge from the nose
• headache
• toothache
• pain sensations when pressing in the forehead and cheeks

Complication after the flu: otitis

Symptoms:
• shooting ear pain
• purulent discharge from the ear

Complication after the flu: heart

Symptoms:
• severe pain in the heart area
• dyspnea

Complication after the flu: diseases of the nervous system

Symptoms:

•
headache • nausea
• vomiting
• photophobia
• dizziness

Symptoms of intestinal flu in adults

• general malaise
• headache
• increased fatigue
• loss of appetite or complete absence of it
• discomfortin the abdomen, constant rumbling
• milk and dairy products
may be intolerant • nausea, vomiting
• diarrhea
• temperature rise at the beginning of the disease observesI do not always
• in the midst of the disease the temperature can rise to 38-39 degrees sometimes observed
• runny or stuffy nose, cough, pain in the throat

such as intestinal flu-like symptoms in children.

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The best protection against influenza and ARVI is us. To enjoy the winter without disease, it is worth sticking to simple rules.

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