Respiratory syncytial
Disease information
Respiratory syncytial
A
respiratory
disease
frequents that it appears mainly during the
autumn
and the
winter
is caused by the sincicial
respiratory
virus, that are highly contagious not only through
respiratory
secretions of the patients,
but
also through the hands and objects that are been in
contact
with the patient.
One does not know well because the
disease
appears annually with greater incidence, during the
winter
if evidences exist of which the virus is present in the atmosphere throughout the year. Nevertheless one thinks that with the cold, in addition of which they lower the defenses of the organism, always
a
greater agglomeration of people in closed places occurs, remain by greater time in them and the lack of
ventilation
favors the conditions so that it is made I
infect
of person to person.
This
disease
can affect in any age,
but
mainly and with greater gravity it appears in smaller
children
of 2 years and with greater incidence in
children
than in
children
and it
has
identified like
a
cause of insterticial neumonitis and
neumonía
in greater people or of third age.
This
disease
always begins like
a
gripal
picture, with cold, cough and fever,
but
to both days, it presents / displays
respiratory
difficulty that sometimes can make difficult until the feeding.
The
respiratory
problem
is not equal in all the
children
or people and can appear from slight cases that they do not represent greater
problems
and they are cured by single himself, to serious cases that they can finish in one
neumonía
, obstructivas bronquiolitis or crises, that get more or less to affect
a
third of the patients, whom they require of hospitalization by several days. Around the 2, 5% of the infected ones it must be hospitalized and 0, 1% pass away by
respiratory
complications.
The virus is so
common
, that it
has
been demonstrated that near half of the
children
has
had an
infection
by VRS during its first year of life and all have
almost
undergone an
infection
by their cause when fulfilling 2 years, being much very serious in
premature
suckling babies, or with
congenital
cardiopathies, displasia to broncopulmonar,
disease
to neuromuscular or deficiencies of the immunological
system
, by
cancer
,
AIDS
or transplants.
2 groups of VRS or sincicial
respiratory
virus have detected themselves:
A
and B and within them exist several sub - groups. Both virus groups can circulate simultaneously during the
winter
epidemics and have been detected in all the regions of the world.
In climates temperings like the one of
Mexico
, the
infection
by VRS appears every
winter
and during this time it is observed an increase in the cases of obstructivo bronchial
syndrome
(SBO) and
neumonía
in
children
, in addition of which it increases the number of hospitalizations of suckling babies with
respiratory
infections
.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
of its use.
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