Orz. acute respiratory infections (acute catarrh of the respiratory tract)

A very common disease with a primary lesion of the respiratory tract. Caused by a variety of etiological agents (viruses, mycoplasma, bacteria). Immunity after past disease strictly type-specific, for example, kvirusu influenza, parainfluenza, Herpes Simplex, rhinovirus. Therefore, one and the same person can fall ill with acute respiratory illness to 5-7 times during the year. The source of infection is a person with clinically expressed or erased forms of acute respiratory disease. Less important are healthy virus carriers. Transmission occurs predominantly by droplet infection. Diseases occur in separate cases of epidemic outbreaks.
ARI has a relatively weakly expressed phenomena of intoxication, mainly affecting the upper respiratory tract and benign course. respiratory disorders manifested as rhinitis, rhinopharyngitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, traheolaringita, bronchitis, pneumonia. Some etiological agents, in addition to these manifestations, cause a number of other symptoms: conjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis with adenoviral diseases, moderately pronounced signs of herpetic angina with enteroviral diseases, eczema krasnuhopodobnye with adenovirus and enterovirus diseases, false croup syndrome in adenoviral infection and parainfluenza infections. The duration of the disease in the absence of pneumonia, from 2-3 to 5-8 days. In pneumonia, often cause mycoplasma respiratory syncytial virus and adenovirus in combination with a bacterial infection, the disease lasts 3-4 weeks and more poorly to therapy.
The basic method - clinical. Put the diagnosis: acute respiratory infections (ARI) and give its transcript (rhinitis, nasopharyngitis, acute laryngotracheobronchitis and so on.). The etiologic diagnosis is made only after laboratory confirmation.
Antibiotics and other chemotherapeutic drugs are ineffective because they do not act on the virus. Antibiotics can be prescribed for acute bacterial respiratory diseases. Treatment often done at home. During the hectic period of bed rest is recommended. Assign symptomatic agents, antipyretics, and so on.
For specific - used vaccine. For the prevention of influenza A can use rimantadine.