Curity is an infectious acute disease, the manifestations of which are a typical rash, conjunctivitis and damage to the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract. Core treatment in children It should be under the control of the attending physician.
The measles spreads with a fabric path, first getting to the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract, and then spreading throughout the child's body. The disease affects the skin cells, as well as the mucous membranes of the mouth and eyes. The source of infection is a sick person who releases the virus for the last two days of the incubation period until the fourth day after the appearance of the rash.
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Symptoms and core leakage
The hidden period when measuring measles lasts 9-11 days. Starting from half of this period, the child manifests the first symptoms of the disease:
- small cough and runny nose;
- weight loss in a child under the age of 1 year;
- edema of the lower eyelid, redness of conjunctiva;
- an increase in temperature in the evening.
In the future, the temperature rises to 38-39 degrees, the child becomes sluggish and weak, his appetite disappears, and the cough becomes rude and barking, the redness of the eyes is increased. On the mucous membrane of the cheeks, specific signs of measles appear in the sky - whitish small spots.
The root rash appears first on the neck and face, then on the hands, torso and hips, and then on the legs and feet. The rash on the face on the third day begins to pale.
Conjunctivitis is a typical sign of measles, and often it is purulent, in the morning the eyelashes are glued from purulent discharge. An increase in purulent infection threatens the child with the development of pneumonia.
Core treatment in children
Core treatment in children should be carried out according to the recommendations of the attending physician. Therapy of the disease usually looks like this:
- bed rest is prescribed, at a temperature of more than 38 ° C, antipyretic drugs based on paracetamol are prescribed;
- eye washing is carried out 3-4 times a day;
- if the cough is dry and strong, the doctor prescribes mucolytic drugs;
- with a runny nose, if it is strong, the nose is washed with special sprays with the content of sea water, and after which vasoconstrictor means are buried;
- it is not necessary to lubricate the skin rashes. The child begins to bathe with normalization of body temperature and after the rash passes, leaving behind them pigmented small spots;
- with severe skin itching, the doctor can prescribe the use of ointments with a calming effect that contains zinc;
- the sick child needs to be checked more often - tea, jelly, compote, decoction of dried apricots or rosehips, fruit drinks, and also give him more fresh fruits, since vitamin C prevents the reproduction of the virus.
The doctor prescribes antibiotics if a secondary infection has joined the measles and complications began to develop - pneumonia, bronchitis, otitis media, etc.
In the room where the child is sick with measles lies, you need to do wet cleaning every day and ventilate as often as possible. Since photophobia often occurs with measles, the windows must be closed with curtains or blinds. The child’s nutrition should be easy: for example, low -fat vegetable soups, boiled and wiped, various sour -milk products.
Curial prevention
The measles are a serious disease, so immunoprophylaxis is the best prevention - children of up to 1 year old, a living weakened measles virus with revaccination at the age of six.
If there are suspicions of contact with sick measles in an unexplored child, gamma-globulin is introduced no later than 3-5 days from the time of contact. All children who have contact with a sick child are isolated for 21 days, the patient is isolated immediately from the moment of manifestation of the initial symptoms of the disease. The people vaccinated or ill -frustrated by people receive life immunity, quarantine does not apply to them.