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Infectious mononucleosis


Infectious mononucleosis is an infectious disease characterized by fever, increased lymph nodes, inflammation of the tonsils and certain blood changes.
Cause. The causative agent of the disease is the Epstein-Barr virus (the names of scientists who discovered the virus) from the herpesvirus family.
The main source of infection - healthy people, infected with the Epstein-Barr virus.
Transmission of the virus occurs mainly with saliva (with kisses - "kissing disease").
Infection is prone to mainly young children, whose disease, as a rule, proceeds easily and imperceptibly. Infection in adolescence and young age leads to the development of a disease - infectious mononucleosis. Adult people are overwhelmingly already infected with this virus.
The process of development of the disease. When infected, the virus enters the oropharynx, penetrates into its mucous membrane and lymphocytes (white blood cells), in which it multiplies, causing the disease, and then stored in them in an inactive state.
After the transferred disease develops persistent immunity to it.
Signs. The incubation period lasts from 4 days to 2 months.
The disease begins acutely. The patient has weakness, headache, pain in muscles and joints, sore throat when swallowing, sleep and appetite are disturbed, body temperature rises to 38-40 o C, there is an increase in the posteroderma and cervical lateral lymph nodes up to 2-3 cm. These phenomena Intensify within 2-4 days. In the course of the disease, the liver is always affected to one degree or another, which in some patients is manifested by a feeling of heaviness in the right hypochondrium, darkening of the urine. There is an increase in the spleen.
The disease lasts about 1-2 weeks, then a gradual recovery begins. Enlargement of lymph nodes and weakness persist up to 3 or more weeks.
Complications. Rupture of the spleen.
Recognition of the disease. A patient with a sore throat must be examined by a doctor to exclude a very serious disease - diphtheria.
The diagnosis is confirmed by blood tests, in which characteristic changes develop in the course of the disease.
Treatment. Hospitalized patients with a moderate and severe course of the disease. Patients with mild course are treated as outpatients in infectious diseases.
Examination. Those who have recovered after an infectious mononucleosis are under observation with an infectious disease specialist for 6 months with repeated blood tests.
For 1.5-2 months from the onset of the disease, do not exercise in order to prevent a possible rupture of the spleen.