Adenoviruses are a group of viruses that primarily affect the eyes, respiratory organs, urinary tract, lymphatic system, intestines.
Adenovirus infection almost does not occur in adults, but it affectschildren, especially young and infancy. The highest susceptibility in children, whose age is from 6 months. up to 3 years. By the age of 5, almost all of them, at least once, are ill with this infection, and half of them carry it again.
The adenovirus carrier is a sick person.Infection is transmitted by food, airborne, water, or by contact-household way. The disease can occur at any time of the year, but it is necessary to raise it more often during the cold seasons. However, conjunctivitis and conjunctival fever occur in children in older groups in the summer.
Adenovirus infection is very quickly transmitted fromone ill to the next - for this there is an insignificant contact. One ill child can trigger an outbreak in the school, hospital, boarding school, summer camp. The incubation period of the disease can last from 2 to 14 days, on average - 5-8 days.
Adenovirus infection: symptoms
The disease often resembles an ordinary cold:the patient is shivering, there are pains in the muscles, general weakness, poor appetite, headache. The feverish period can last from 6-7 to 14 days. The initial symptoms of infection are: a gradual increase in temperature to 38-39C, nasal congestion, sore throat, runny nose, conjunctivitis, lymphadenitis (enlarged lymph nodes). Sometimes laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis and even pneumonia may develop.
In an organism of the child an adenovirus infection more oftenall gets through the upper respiratory tract, sometimes through the intestine or conjunctiva of the eyes. Inflammatory processes are characterized by abundant discharge from the nose, which eventually become mucopurulent. The child begins to breathe with his mouth open. The posterior wall of the pharynx and the palatine tonsils blush and swell. Often the disease is accompanied by a cough that is humid. Young children are subject to a stronger and more persistent cough.
A very characteristic symptom of infection isconjunctivitis. It can happen on the first day of illness. First one eye is affected, next, on the second day - the second. Children usually complain of pain, lacrimation and burning sensation in the eyes, sensation of a foreign body in them.
Inflammation of the intestines - gastroenteritis - manifested by diarrhea, intestinal colic, vomiting, fever and headache.
Urinary tract infection is expressed in frequent urge to urinate, a feeling of soreness and burning, the appearance of blood in the urine.
When adenovirus infection is often the casemoderate increase in cervical and abdominal lymph nodes. The enlargement of the abdominal knots is manifested by paroxysmal pains in the abdomen, sometimes by strong ones, so that in order to make the correct diagnosis it is necessary to exclude the possibility of having acute appendicitis.
Adenovirus infection: treatment
Duration of adenoviral diseaseinfection can be quite lengthy. Usually, the temperature normalizes to 5-7 days, but it can last 2 or even 3 weeks. Treatment of the patient always depends on the severity of the manifestations of the disease. If the disease is relatively easy, then hospitalization is not required. It is enough to comply with bed rest and conduct local treatment: take means that alleviate the symptoms of the disease, antihistamines, multivitamins. For conjunctivitis, oxolinic eye ointment or florenal ointment is used, a 0.2% deoxyribonuclease solution is used for instillation.
In severe cases, you should contact your doctor.to the doctor. Only he can prescribe the correct treatment based on the results of various tests. Adenovirus infection can pose a risk of subsequent complications of the disease such as sinusitis, otitis media, or pneumonia. Therefore, the treatment of the disease must be taken seriously.
