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.You can get the flu from being vaccinated No, no, and again no. The vaccine contains an inactivated virus. That is, in fact, dead. In general, there are very few live vaccines, and they are not injected into children. In order for a stable immunity to develop, at least a week should pass after vaccination. If you still manage to catch the virus during this time, you will be sick like cute. But this does not mean that the vaccine caused the disease in you. And by the way, vaccinated people also get sick. But not so hard, not so long and without consequences. It is too late to vaccinate now Of course, it is better to vaccinate in advance. In October, for example, when all the epidemic peaks are still ahead. But even now, it will not be harmful at all to vaccinate and vaccinate the child. After all, the next wave of influenza and SARS can go in February and March. Children have strong immunity from nature, it is not necessary to spoil it with vaccinations Why do I need any additional protection, if I am already fine, I feel great, illnesses do not bother me at all. And in children, in general, immunity is naturally powerful, why spoil it with vaccines? You know, the virus doesn't care who it sticks to. Your chances of getting infected are the same as everyone else's. It's just that good immunity will help to transfer 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 not clear where it was taken. And one more thing - the more vaccinated people around us, the less space for the virus to revel in. Vaccination creates a protective barrier for people who really shouldn't be vaccinated. 6. Influenza and ARVI are just a cough, a runny nose and a fever. For some reason, many people perceive viral infections as something like a pernicious cold. The same thing, just a little heavier. And they are monstrously mistaken. With the flu, you may not have a cough or a runny nose. And even the throat will not hurt. But people do not die of a cold, and of the flu, yes. Viral diseases in children can cause very serious, up to deafness. 7. Pregnant women and children should not be vaccinated Women who are in the vaccine position may be vaccinated. But only with inactivated vaccines. They are safe for both the fetus and the mother. And children can be vaccinated against influenza starting from six months. Babies under three years old are given half the dose. There is one more feature: if the child is not yet seven years old, and he is being given a flu shot for the first time, then he will need to be re-vaccinated in a few weeks. My child was vaccinated last year, so this is not necessary The flu virus mutates every year, so it is necessary. Last year's vaccination will not help in any way. The vaccine usually includes protection against several strains of SARS. Which one will frolic this winter, scientists predict. Based on this data, doctors synthesize vaccines.Photo: GettyImages9. A child can get sick with flu while sitting in a draft. You can soak your feet, sit by the open window, freeze on a cold bus, but you and your child will not get the flu from this. Catarrhal disease can earn on the soil of hypothermia, yes. But ARVI or the flu is a virus, and only a virus.10. Antibiotics will cure everyone Doctors already nauseam stuffed, repeating that treating viral diseases with antibiotics is pointless. It's like trying to wipe the water off the floor with an iPhone. Antibiotics treat bacterial diseases, various inflammations. And antiviral drugs are from another opera. By the way, Tamiflu was called the only medicine effective against flu.