What you need to know about cough?
Why kids sick cough? How the infection is distributed? What kind of symptoms and signs? What forms can take a disease
Cocky belongs to classic childhood infections, along with windmill, rubella, cute and scarletina. However, it has a special danger from others, since infect and children under 4 years old there is a risk of fatal outcome provoked by this infection.
The disease is manifested as attacks of continuous and convulsive cough. She can exhaust a child for two months. He is deprived of the opportunity to visit the kindergarten or school, as it is infectious.
Often cough attacks are accompanied by vomiting, normal breathing is disturbed, it makes it difficult to eat. In this case, antitussive means are helpless.
What causes Cocalus?
The main clinical symptom is cough. It is through it that the virus is distributed among the population. In addition, he can pass when talking and sneezing.
In the development of the disease, not only the subtype of bacteria, which there are three, but also the age of the child, as well as its previous state of health.
The main source of infection is kids and adults patients. They are dangerous from the very beginning of the disease, that is, even during the incubation period. As soon as a person began to feel bad, he becomes a peddler of the disease.
This period will depend on timely diagnosis and treatment. If you immediately start taking antibiotics, you can prevent further development of the disease. In this case, the body will completely get rid of bacteria, the so-called cough stick, by 25 days from the beginning of the disease.
Symptoms of a cough in children
The period of the disease has several stages of development: incubation, catarrhal (predominant), dry cough period, recovery:
- Incubation lasts from 3 to 14 days, but on average no more than 5-7. At this time, a dry cough begins to appear. Most often arises before bedtime and during it. It is not amenable to treating antitussive means, becomes parole. Light rheuble. As for temperature, it is usually not rising above 37-37.5. The child is almost healthy, he does not disappear appetite and normal sleep. At the same time, changes in the throat or lungs are manifested;
- Catarial lasts from 2 to 8 weeks, sometimes more. Character is characterized by increasing. Attacks become argued, follow one after another. At the same time, the child cannot inhale normally;
- The recovery period is long enough. Sometimes the cough can go only six months later. Often in the process of treatment, other colds again cause its attacks, but they are softer and less unpleasant. At this time, immunity suffers greatly, especially if the child had a severe course of the disease.
Symptoms of a cough showing in infants are not less bright. This infection is particularly dangerous for this category of patients, since the respiratory stop may occur with convulsive cough and there is a high risk of fatal outcome.
Small children are subject to attacks reprises – convulsive breaths. They are well audible at a distance. They arise as a result of spasms of the voice slot when passing through it.
Before the attacks often, sneezing, feeling of fear and anxiety arises, as well as the Zudit throat. Cough ends with vomiting, in which a lump of thick and viscous mucus is usually detected. The attacks are greatly exhausted by the baby, as they can occur up to 50 times per day.
During dry cough:
The child has a reddish face that shines when attacks;- Subcutaneous and cervical veins swell;
- The language is turned up to the limit. His bridle may be abandoned;
- Out of the grounds are formed ulcers;
- In the lungs there are small wet and dry wheezing, which are scattered throughout the surface of the organs.
During the period of recovery, which usually lasts up to 4 weeks, the cough becomes not so frequent and abandonable. Vomiting is also observed less. Language bridle is no longer abandoned. The baby begins to sleep calmer and his healthy appetite appears. He adds in weight.
Symptoms and diagnostics of a cough who arose in children
Signs of the disease may differ slightly depending on the type of bacteria, as well as immunity.
As for the diagnosis, the cough cough cannot be confused with any other. However, it is detected only in late steps. The basis for the diagnosis can be guided by contact with patients, no vaccination.
Resort to laboratory diagnostics:
- Hematological analysis. In this case, lymphocytosis will be detected with an increased number of leukocytes with reduced ESP;
- Bacteriological method – highlighting of a cough stick. Conducted by taking a sample from the rear wall of the pharynx. Make an empty stomach;
- Method of fence by cough plates. The answer comes in 3-7 days;
- Serological method – the study of antibodies;
- Immunofermental. Determine the level of antibodies of class M and G, as they create immunity to this disease.
Symptoms of a cough, which appeared at the grafts
The vaccinated child has the same symptoms as the kid without vaccination, but they may be less pronounced and look like a light ORVI. As a rule, the temperature does not rise. Baby continues to eat well and His strong night sleep.
It is worth noting that the graft children will not be observed reprises, which significantly complicates the diagnosis of the disease, as this is the brightest symptom of the cough.
Subsequently, the disease passes from one stage to another, and the symptoms become more explicit.
In the future, a specialist may appoint expectorant drugs. They will not eliminate cough, but the development of complications, which very often provokes this disease.
In severe flow, neuroleptics, xylorability, hormones, means for normalization of cerebral circulation, diuretic drugs can be prescribed.
Diagnosis in such cases under conditions of polyclinics is possible only with laboratory methods. If the doctor sent for such tests, and they confirmed pathology in the body, then the antibiotics of the erythromycin group are discharged. Starting them in the first three weeks from the beginning of the disease, you can prevent its further development.
