ARVI: signs, symptoms and treatment in children and adults

1. Fasting helps you recover faster, and chicken soup treats both, and the other - nonsense. When the child (and the adult) is sick, he needs more fluid, this is absolutely certain. Any pediatrician will recommend first of all an abundant warm drink. However, children, when they have a high fever, and so eat badly. It's not scary. But if you still have the appetite, you do not need to refuse to eat. The myth about the miraculous properties of chicken soup has long been dispelled. It is useful exactly as much as any other warm liquid. If a person does not have symptoms, he is not contagious. Specialists say that 20, or even 30 percent of the carriers of a virus are really just carriers. They do not have any visible symptoms of influenza. Who knows, maybe a person literally took a virus a couple of hours ago and the incubation period has not yet passed?Photo: GettyImages3. Because of the vaccine, you can get sick with the flu. No, no, and once again no. The vaccine contains an inactivated virus. That is, in fact, dead. There are very few live vaccines at all, and children are not pricked. In order to develop a stable immunity, after vaccination should take at least a week. If you manage to catch the virus in this time, you'll get sick like a pretty one. But this does not mean that the disease caused you exactly the vaccine. And, by the way, vaccinated people are also sick. But not so hard, not so long and without consequences. It is already late to vaccinate. Of course, it is better to be vaccinated in advance. In October, for example, when all the epidemic peaks are yet to come. But even now, it's not harmful to vaccinate yourself and vaccinate your child. After all, another wave of influenza and SARS can go in February, and in March. Children have strong immunity from nature, do not spoil it with vaccines. Why should I have any additional protection, if I'm already fine, I feel fine, do not bother me at all. And the children in general immunity from nature is powerful, why spoil it with vaccines? You know, the virus does not care who to stick to. The chances of getting infected are the same as for everyone. Simply good immunity will help to bear the disease easier, but why do you need it at all? And about the powerful protection of children - this is generally a myth, it is unclear where from. And one more thing - the more around us vaccinated people, the less the virus has space for revelry. Vaccination creates a protective barrier for people who can not really get vaccinated. 6. Influenza and SARS - it's just a cough, runny nose and fever. Many for some reason perceive viral infections as something of a malignant cold. It's the same, just a little heavier. And monstrously mistaken. With the flu, there may be neither a cough nor a cold. And even the throat will not hurt. But they do not die from a cold, but from a flu - yes. Viral diseases in children can cause very serious, down to deafness. Pregnant women and children should not be vaccinated. Women in the vaccine position can be done. But only inactivated vaccines. They are safe for the fetus and for the mother. And children can be vaccinated against influenza starting from six months. Babies under three years of age are given half the dose. There is one more feature: if the child is not yet seven years old, and the flu vaccine is first done for him, then a second vaccination will be necessary in a few weeks. My child was vaccinated last year, which means that this is not necessary. The flu virus mutates every year, so it is necessary. Last year's vaccination here does not help. The vaccine usually includes protection from several strains of ARVI. Which of them will frolic this winter, scientists predict. Based on these data, doctors synthesize vaccines.Photo: GettyImages9.A child can get the flu from sitting in a draftYou can get your feet wet, sit by an open window, freeze in a cold bus, but neither you nor your child will get the flu from this. You can get a cold from hypothermia, that's true. But ARVI or the flu is a virus, and only a virus.10. Antibiotics will cure everythingDoctors have become a pain in the ass, repeating that it is pointless to treat viral diseases with antibiotics. It's like trying to wipe water off the floor with an iPhone. Antibiotics treat bacterial diseases, various inflammations. And antiviral drugs are a different story. By the way, Tamiflu has been repeatedly called the only medicine effective against the flu.