A 16-month-old boy in Phu Tho coughs a long day when he thinks that a sick child has an unexpected discovery

3 days before hospitalization, baby D. (16 months) continuous high fever, severe cough, fuss, pale skin, upper respiratory tract inflammation, infection status, oral mucosal ulcer, poor eating , dark urine.

The Department of Tropical Diseases - The Pediatrics Center (Phu Tho Province Hospital) has just received Kieu Phuong D. (16 months old), hospitalized due to fever, coughing for 21 days.

Those 3 weeks, baby D. fever each time. The family went to many places for medical examination and treatment but not yet. 3 days before admission, children had high fever continuously, coughing a lot. When hospitalized, she cried, hot fever, pale skin, upper respiratory tract inflammation, infection status, oral mucosal ulcers, poor eating, dark peeing.

Through the treatment, the condition of the child has progressed well to help with crying and crying, better physical condition, oral mucosal ulcer, but still high fever, increased secretion of nose and throat.

After conducting additional tests and using PCR technique (gene sequencing technique), the results of children infected with the vius Adeno. BSCKI Bui Thi Den - Head of Tropical Diseases said: Adeno is a virus, causing acute diseases with diverse symptoms.

Pneumonia caused by adeno virus has a mortality rate of up to 8% - 10%. The adeno virus can also cause diseases such as acute conjunctivitis, gastroenteritis or cystitis in children.

Currently, the virus caused by adeno has not yet had a specific treatment. The main treatment regimen is symptomatic treatment, improving the body's body condition, antibiotics can be used to combat bacterial superinfection. Most important is to keep clean.

BS To recommend, the disease caused by adeno virus is very contagious. In particular, adeno viruses can cause many dangerous complications from common symptoms.

Experts recommend how to prevent disease caused by Adeno virus

There are currently no vaccines available to prevent this virus. For prevention, it is necessary to apply common preventive measures for respiratory disease. Maintaining a diet full of nutrients, strengthening vitamins to increase strength to resist the body, limiting to gather in crowded places, use masks when going out and keeping the body warm. For young children, it is necessary to limit aromatic adults, kissing to avoid respiratory diseases, because viruses are resident in the human body and have a long incubation period.

At the same time, strictly follow basic preventive measures such as:

- Keep clean, clean water, keep personal hygiene, do not share towels and wash towels regularly with soap.

- Do not share belongings of patients such as towels, bowls, chopsticks, spoons, cups, blankets, beds, mats .

- Disinfect and disinfect at the same time the utensils of patients in the period of acute and antiseptic diseases, last disinfection when cured.