Pediatrician dispelled popular myths.
Modern parents a lot of information about diseases and their treatment today are looking for online, and do not rush for help to the doctors. However, if this information is true? Pediatrician Yevgeny Tsyganov decided to dispel 5 common myths about SARS.
Myth # 1 – SARS must be with temperature
In fact, says the pediatrician, all is not so simple. Every body responds differently to the disease. And the parents immediately rush to ascribe the baby is non-existent diagnoses.
“And they go crazy in their own way. Someone has a child with immunodeficiency, because there are snot, but no fever, so the body does not fight. Someone is not SARS at all,” she writes, and calls to remember that how you will proceed a cold, it depends on the virus, and from the forces of the organism in the moment – that is one child every SARS may come in different symptoms and manifestations.
Myth # 2 – different reactions to the temperature
This myth is similar to the previous one, because all depends on the reaction of the organism to date, and not to what it was before.
“We have the temperature always easily endured, and here..”, – this phrase from parents can be heard quite often. But the pediatrician recalled that all the matter in different viruses. “Flu gives you a strong intoxication, headache, body aches… but with a different virus with the same temperature – a child jumps like a horse,” she says.
Myth # 3 – the temperature at SARS lasts for three days, after which you need antibiotics
Such a recommendation is likely to have heard many parents, but in fact it is not. The temperature in the cold can hold a lot more days, just in 3 days the child should be sent for additional tests in the real conditions of our clinics almost unreal.
“Well, the doctor will send You with a child whose temperature is under 40, to stand in the queue for x-ray or a blood test? In General, the temperature at SARS can last from one day to… for Example, mono has a long fever. I know from experience how these children spend on drink some courses of antibiotics, one stronger than the other, and then the temperature did not fall…” – says Eugene.
Myth # 4 – bronchitis should be treated with antibiotic
The pediatrician calls this stupid recommendation, because antibiotics are designed to kill specific bacteria and bronchitis, most often, viral.
“Is silly. Antibiotic should be treated, i.e., to kill specific bacteria and bronchitis is most often viral! As ear infections, by the way,” she writes.
Myth # 5 – that the parents themselves diagnosed and did not run to the doctor, and immediately take a picture or to buy drugs
“Masha pneumonia, we talked to her, and we have the temperature has risen, it is necessary to take a picture!” No! Contact your physician if something seems suspicious! But Masha You can get the pathogen, not the disease. And how this pathogen behaves in the body of Your child, depends on the number of trapped microbe/virus, and forces the kid’s body,” – explains his position the doctor.
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