Mixt infection: diagnosis and treatment

Complex cases of mixed types of diseases are difficult to diagnose and especially cure. This kind of inflammatory processes include manifestations of mixed infection in children. This name means several viruses and bacteria that have a simultaneous mutual influence on a child's health.

For each mixed type of disease, a special approach is developed in the analysis. Mikst-infection differs by the distorted parameters at use of methods IFA and PTSR. It is often necessary to extinguish the symptoms of one virus or bacteria in order to start treatment of the second.

The problem of mixed viruses and bacteria

Among the most popular sexually transmitted diseases, bacterial mixed infections are distinguished, the treatment of which is complicated due to various combinations:

• Chlamydia;
• Ureaplasma;
• Gardnerella;
• Mycoplasma;
• Gonococcal viruses;
• Candida;
• Trichomonads.

Viruses are added to bacterial manifestations, they should also be taken into account when choosing the type of complex therapy and the type of drugs. An incorrect approach to diagnosis leads to false-positive or false-negative results. They will be treated, after which a relapse will occur.

Particular attention is paid in cases where a mixed infection in children is detected. A young organism is sensitive to strong antibiotics, and there is no need to take any extra medication. During the diagnosis of health status, tests are assigned to an extensive list of viruses.

What happens when you mix bacteria and viruses?

Mixt infection in a child can be formed by mixing the following pairs:

• Bacteria - bacteria;
• Bacteria - viruses;
• Viruses - viruses;
• Parasites - bacteria;
• Parasites are parasites;
• Parasites - viruses;
• More complex derivatives.

If monoinfections have long been studied, the main symptoms of illness have been established by experience, then a mixed infection can manifest itself in any way. The following types of scenarios are possible:

• The same type of infection can depress one another and pass at all asymptomatically and without complications;
• Complex combinations of viruses, bacteria and parasites give rise to new states that can not be diagnosed;
• Oppression of acute symptoms manifested in a monoinfection occurs due to stimulation of the immune forces of the organism by one species;
• More rapid development of severe symptoms occurs, which is influenced by the simultaneous administration of a large number of drugs.

What to expect after mixing bacteria and viruses?

As a result of complex combinations, including even two types of microorganisms, a new mixed infection is formed. The definition of symptoms begins with the diagnosis of the general condition of the body. Each person will have their own signs of inflammation after infection.

The expressed symptoms are observed only in a small number of people, in others the inflammation goes according to its scenario. But the relationship of infections is established, when it is possible with a small degree of probability to assert, there will be an oppression or an increase in acute conditions. So, give out mixed infections, complementing each other:

• Measles with diphtheria;
• Meningococcal infection + influenza;
• Streptococci and tuberculosis;
• Paratyphus + typhoid fever.

However, the complementation of the symptomatology is not due to the simple law of addition, but from the constantly changing nature of development. This complicates the formation of disease statistics, and in each specific case, an individual approach to the treatment of the patient is developed.

Triple Mixing of Bacteria

Often a mixed infection is formed under the influence of:

• Ureaplasma;
• Chlamydia;
• Mycoplasma.

These three kinds of bacteria are easily transmitted by sex between women and men. They also affect the structure of the fetus in pregnant women and can go to a future child at birth.

Diagnosis before pregnancy should necessarily include an extensive list of infections to rule out the development of complications. The listed types of bacteria were almost always accompanied by candidias and gardnerella in women. Treatment began with the destruction of the last microorganisms, the transition to stronger antibiotics was carried out later.

Mixed types of bacteria and viruses acquire unknown forms, manifested by new symptoms. Consequences of such conditions almost always become another relapse. Immunity to triple attack is often unstable.

Transfer of bacteria by insects

The northern regions of the country with dense vegetation have a huge number of people who have had a mixed infection: pneumococcus, meningoencephalitis, borreliosis mite. These three types of diseases are difficult to diagnose with this combination because of small cases of observations of patients with acute conditions. We can single out only a few of them:

• The development of the inflammatory process occurs rapidly, with manifestations of febrile conditions.
• Often a lesion of the joint tissues is formed.
• A rise in body temperature is accompanied by a headache and vomiting.

With a mixed type, it is not possible to perform diagnostics with precise indicators. Treatment begins with course therapy, which includes drugs against all pathogens. The picture of the disease emerges only after 14 days.

Blending of viruses

A strong decrease in immunity in children occurred if there was a mixed-herpetic infection. The patients were examined with two types of viruses:

• Epstein-Barra + cytomegalovirus.
• Epstein-Barra + herpes simple type.

Two types of viruses increased the symptoms of monoinfection. During the observation, the main acute conditions were identified:

• Disorders in the work of the brain, develops a cerebral symptom in children.
• There are problems in the production of lymphocytes.
• Increased risk of acquiring other viruses and bacteria. The organism becomes weak before the attack of external microorganisms.
• The emergence of internal problems in the digestive system: the initial development of ulcers, erosion of the internal walls of the organs.
• Increased frequency of recurrences of herpes infections.
• Increased risk of upper respiratory tract diseases.
• Disorders in the work of the heart and central nervous system.
• There is also a problem with the movement of leukocytes.

Mikst-infection of herpesviruses is extremely dangerous for pregnant women and people with diseases of the immune system. However, from numerous observations, effective methods of treatment were established provided that the diagnosis was correct.

Complications of the respiratory tract

There is a mixed infection: pneumonia + fungi (yeast-like or moldy) or a combination with other microorganisms. Bacterial viral mixing leads in some cases to mutual suppression of symptoms, while a separate species would lead to more acute conditions.

So, an ordinary cough with a careful examination can be a combination of dangerous bacteria that need to be destroyed before the growth of the most prevalent infection begins. Dangerous mixtures are the following types of viruses, bacteria:

• Established diagnosis of acute respiratory viral disease;
• Chlamydia found in the lungs;
• Revealed focal pneumonia ;
• Toxoplasm.

The confusion of all these conditions led to fatalities. For proper treatment, a step-by-step action on the most active component is selected with periodic re-analysis of pathogens. These methods often did not help, and the children had severe consequences from mixed infection:

• A sharp rise in temperature above 39 degrees;
• Vomiting, nausea, dyspnea;
• Diarrhea followed by constipation;
• Focal lesions of the upper respiratory tract;
• Pathological changes in internal organs.

The diagnosis of mixed bacteria and viruses

During the expressed symptoms of monoinfections, the diagnosis should be performed with respect to all possible pathogens. But such methods of examining patients are very costly, and not everyone can afford this. In practice, more often, tests for major viruses and bacteria are prescribed. Sometimes the probability of a parasitic complication is excluded without carrying out laboratory methods.

As a result of narrowly focused treatment in relation to one type of pathogen in humans, a repeat of the inflammatory process in a complicated form occurs in the future. To date, mixed infections have not been fully studied, in this field, medicine will still have to face new types of associations of viruses, bacteria and parasites.

Mixed etiology in children

The problem of mixed infections is especially acute in the treatment of newborns. Attention is paid to the study of the state of the still fetus being formed. Intrauterine infection leads to the most unfortunate consequences for expectant mothers. Children become infertile, have pathologies in their development.

Causes of deaths of newborns is an incomplete examination of the causative agents of a morbid condition. Often, treatment is performed for the most common bacteria and viruses without regard for their mutual influence. There is a systematic entry of patients with mixed infection, formed by the following types of pathogens:

• Herpes simplex virus + cytomegalovirus;
• Herpes simplex virus + Epstein-Barra + cytomegalovirus.

These combinations of infections are found in more than 50% of newborns.

The correct approach to treatment

Exclude pathological complications in children can only be through a comprehensive examination of a huge number of pathogens. And diagnostic methods include several types of tests for the same type of infection. Re-examination takes place in the same place where positive results were found. This requirement of doctors is necessary to exclude false indices.

The treatment procedure is built taking into account the following factors:

• The mutual influence of antibiotics on each other;
• Use of antibacterial and antiviral drugs, excluding the increase of side effects;
• Treatment of the most active form with the subsequent retake of the detected infection.