The younger our children, the more often they get sick. The immunity of a small person is not developed to the level of reliable protection. In addition, you always want to touch everything, especially on the street. There is a risk of contracting a disease.
Imagine an incredible child. He himself monitors the intake of vitamins, knows and performs personal hygiene, eats by all the rules of a healthy diet. Will he be sick? The answer is yes. Among the diseases from which with all the desire not to get away is enterovirus infection. In children, symptoms are easy to notice. The stool is broken, the appetite disappears, the temperature rises.
Pathogens that transmit enterovirus infection provoke not one disease, but a whole pathological “bouquet”. A child over two years old is more likely to be a victim of viruses. Their habitats are dishes, clothes, grass. Enterovirus activity changes during different seasons of the year.
General symptoms of infection are detected in the patient at the end of a latent period of one day. It takes so much time for enteroviruses to reliably establish themselves, to "settle in" in the human body. Suddenly a temperature jump occurs. Acute fever develops rapidly. The child is shaking, he is on fire. This may last two days or more. Fever attacks. The skin of the torso, legs, neck, arms, face blushes.
Enteroviruses produce poisons - toxins. Vomiting and nausea - evidence of poisoning with these poisons, intoxication. The child's face acquires a greenish-earthy color. There is weakness, the body is irrigated with cold sweat, blood pressure drops. During intoxication, the body loses moisture. To prevent dehydration, which is life-threatening, the child should drink as much as possible.
As a rule, enterovirus infection is fairly accurately identified by these signs. In children, symptoms, however, may also indicate other diseases - for example, those caused by E. coli. In addition, rapidly developing enterovirus infection in children turns into many forms. Therefore, it is desirable to know not only its general symptoms, but also specific forms.
Herpetic sore throat is exhausting and dangerous with complications . The child exhausts the heat of many days. The whole mouth and throat hurts, it hurts to drink and eat. The mucous membranes are covered with tubercles. A white coating forms on them. Complicated by meningitis.
The real torture for the baby is epidemic myalgia. Unfortunately, this type of enterovirus infection is common. In addition to the general symptoms, the chest and muscles begin to hurt . The pain at the same time rolls in waves and can be very strong, it is difficult to endure.
Serous meningitis - inflammation of the lining of the brain - is also an enterovirus infection in children. Symptoms: headache and dizziness, the child loses consciousness. Paralysis may develop.
The younger age of the child is often accompanied by intestinal infection. Food causes rumbling of the abdomen and long vomiting, the stomach swells. Watery discharge and mucus in the stool are detected. The nasopharynx swells, coughing fits and severe runny nose occur.
How to treat enterovirus infection?
There are no recommendations for home treatment. Enteroviruses are extremely contagious. Therefore, in the presence of the above symptoms, you must urgently contact a pediatrician, who, with the help of an infectious disease specialist, will put the child in a hospital. Treatment for enterovirus infection is a complex and painstaking process. Only the infectious disease ward of the hospital, led by a very highly qualified doctor, can control it. The patient will be isolated no less, and often for more than ten days - until complete recovery.
Fortunately, nowadays enterovirus infection in children is not a problem . Her symptoms, well studied and noticed on time, are the key to successful treatment results.