How do children become infected with the virus?

Articles with professional advice Master, Dr Phan Ngoc Hai – Department of Pediatrics – Newborns – Share99 Danang International Health Hub. Dr. Hai has worked at the Department of Pediatrics and Pediatrics at Da Nang Obstetrics and Gynecology Health Hub and Hoan My Danang Health Hub. His strengths are general pediatric examination and treatment, newborn examination and treatment, pediatric resuscitation.

Because the immune system is immature, children are more susceptible to infectious diseases than adults. Most of the causes of the disease in children are usually caused by viruses. Viral fever can also progress to dengue, respiratory infections or flu or typhus, hand and mouth disease. Some children exposed to special sources of transmission of H1N1, H5N1, H7N9 viruses may present with severe pneumonia that progresses to severe respiratory failure, death if not detected early and treated promptly.

1. What is a virus?

Viruses are the call of a very small type of organism that is viral. The virus has a simple structure and is much smaller in size than bacteria. They cannot live outside for long but must enter the body of animals or humans, using the raw materials of these owners to grow, multiply and cause disease. There are hundreds of viruses in which many different viruses can cause disease with the same symptoms.

2. How do children become infected with the virus?

There are very few blood-borne viruses, injections, blood transfusions, sex or mother transmissions through children at birth. Most viruses transmitted from person to person through secretion are fired when talking, coughing, sneezing, runny nose.

In this way the virus is very contagious and outbreaks quickly. Children are often infected with the virus when interacting with people around them, friends, babysitting people who are sick, holding toys or public items such as door handles, hand bars of stairs contaminated with secretion containing pathogenic viruses.

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Children are often infected with the virus when interacting with people around them

3. Common manifestations

Besides the general manifestations of viral infections such as fever (fever can be mild or very high), coughing, sneezing, runny nose, fatigue, loss of appetite, fussing, aches and pains … Depending on the cause of the baby's disease, there will be some other characteristic signs such as tearing, redness of the eyes, eyes with light sensitivity, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, nose bleeding, root bleeding, hemorrhagic dots on the skin, rash or water balloons …

Some serious complications such as pneumonia that causes progressive respiratory failure or encephalitis, Guillain Barre.

4. Care and treatment

  • Remove blankets, do not wear too much clothes so that the child's body radiates heat to reduce fever
  • Use antipyretics (paracetamol) in children with a temperature of > 38.5 degrees Celsius or when fever irritates the child, much fuss. This is a fast effective drug, usually has a 30-minute effect and lasts from 4-6 hours, with few side effects. It is necessary to give the child the correct dose of 10 – 15 mg /kg once. Although Aspirin relieves pain and reduces fever very effectively, it is absolutely not recommended for children to use this drug when infected with the virus because it will make the disease worse due to damage to the liver and brain.
  • Cool with warm water when your child has a high fever above 39-40 degrees Celsius or when using hypopyretic has not lowered. Fever-lowering wipe is usually applied to babies from 6 months to 5 years old, not applied to babies because it is easy to cause heat loss and hypothermia. Warm water helps blood vessels under the skin to expand well to help discharge heat.

Avoid using cold water or ice that will make the shrinking blood vessels not radiate heat. Use 4 towels dipped in warm water, squeeze steam wet, apply 2 sides of the armpits, 2 inguinal sides, another towel to wipe all over the young. Check the child's temperature every 15-30 minutes, stop cleaning when the temperature is below 38 degrees Celsius.

  • Handling when a child with high fever convulses
    • Place the child on one side so that the viscous scepticism easily flows out, avoiding inhalation of viscous negotiation into the lungs
    • insertion of acetaminophen hypothermia
    • Cool your child with warm water
    • Take the child to a medical facility for further treatment.
  • Take your child for a check-up as soon as:
    • Ignoring, sleeping a lot of hard-to-wake envelopes
    • Vomiting a lot, vomiting everything
    • Can't eat or breastfeed
    • Convulsions or startles with, or tremors
    • Abnormal breathing, fatigue, cyanosis
    • Cool limbs, floating skin
    • Abdominal pain break
    • Nosebleeds, root bleeding, black stools.

The child should be taken to the hospital immediately if the fever is high for 3 consecutive days; children under 2 months of age; children with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, accompanying asthma; increased abdominal pain; vomiting, excessive diarrhea; severe headache, stiff neck; breaking; fussing, difficulty awakening; shortness of breath, cyanosis; nosebleeds, tooth bleeds, vomiting or bloody bridges…

Most viral infections go well and the child will recover after a few days if rested, cared for and provided a proper diet rich in energy.

  • To avoid dehydration with fever, encourage your child to drink water but not give it once too much. Give your child small sips of filtered water, oresolsolution, juice to provide adequate water, moisten and soothe burning pain in the pharynx to make it easier for children to swallow and less vomiting.
  • It is not necessary to abstain excessively. The baby needs to be given adequate nutrients to compensate for the lack of energy when sick. So feed your baby several meals a day with energy-rich, easily digested, soft, liquid, cold foods. Some vitamins and minerals can be added to your child through food or supplements.
  • Use 0.9% NaCl physiological saline to clean the eyes and stagnant fluid in the nose. Using saline in the fridge cooler, small nose is a method to help children reduce nasal asphyxiation safely and effectively.

If the resistance is poor, the child may become infected during infection or after a viral infection with the manifestation that the symptoms do not cease after a week or worsen. At this time take the child to the doctor for appropriate treatment. Antibiotics will be necessary in this case.

Medical examination for children

Take your child for a check-up as soon as he has a lot of vomiting, vomiting everything

5. Prevention of viral fever

  • Feed your baby enough nutrients to help him have good resistance to disease.
  • Vaccinate your child fully under the Expanded Immunization Program as well as consult a doctor to vaccinate them of other diseases.
  • Wash your hands often and encourage them to do the same especially when they have just come home from public. Practice how to use a paper towel and cover your mouth with your hands when sneezing, runny nose, cough.

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