Rotho-viral infection: treatment, symptoms, how is the disease transmitted

Rotavirus infection is an intestinal disease that almost always affects children. Adults, due to the developed immunity and higher acidity of the gastric juice, if they are sick, then they tolerate the infection easily. Children, especially younger preschool age, because of this disease, often go to the hospital and for a long time can not leave it because the rotavirus, in addition, has a property several times to become aggravated. That is why it is very important that a person with a diagnosis of "rot-virus infection" receive the treatment correctly and adequately from the very beginning.

The disease develops in 1-5 days from the moment of infection with the virus. He gets to a person mostly through dirty hands. The rot-virus infection is transmitted? A sick child or adult actively secretes a virus with saliva, faeces, urine. Infection occurs usually when eating food from a common tableware with a sick person, when children, not my hands and playing with toys with a sick baby, then go to eat. The virus spreads through water, milk. There are also cases of carriage of infection by adults: a person remains healthy, and another from him transmits a rot-virus infection. Treatment, of course, is not carried out, because the carrier does not know about his disease.

How is rotavirus infection manifested?

Usually, at first, there are catarrhal phenomena: a runny nose, a small cough, sore throat. Then roto-virus infection symptoms are as follows:

- high temperature, which is very difficult to reduce antipyretic;

- vomiting;

- diarrhea: the stool becomes liquid, frequent, the frequency of defecation can reach 20 or more times;

- The nature of the stool: liquid, light brown or dark brown, foamy, with an unpleasant odor, blood and mucus usually do not.

Rotavirus infection is very hard to tolerate by many children:

1) in some, the leading symptom is high fever, and in order to reduce it, you need to apply physical methods of cooling and combining various antipyretic drugs with antispasmodics (for example, drugs "Nurofen" and "No-shpa" at the age of dosage);

2) in others, diarrhea and vomiting quickly lead to dehydration, and often to compensate for fluid loss is possible only with the help of droppers;

3) the third suffer from the acetone state, when the organism spends all the glucose to fight the disease, and to maintain the vital processes, it begins to utilize fat, resulting in the formation of ketone (acetone) bodies that poison the central nervous system causing indomitable vomiting and abdominal pain .

Rotho-viral infection: treatment of uncomplicated forms

1. To combat the virus, interferon preparations are used: for children these are "Laferon" or "Viferon" preparations in candles at the age-related dosage; You can also use the "Lipoferon", which is taken orally.
2. Sorbents: "Smecta" and "White Coal" - for small children, for older children - "White Coal", "Atoxil" or "Enterosgel" at age dosages.
3. Drink plenty of fluids.
4. Diet in the acute period. Rice broth, rice porridge almost without salt, not on meat broth, almost without oil, vegetarian soups, a small piece of banana, jelly from non-acidic berries, weak black tea with almost no sugar, crackers, biscuits. Dairy products, coffee, cocoa, cakes, sweets, fried, smoked, spicy products - to exclude.

Rotho-viral infection: treatment of complications

Therapy of complications is carried out together with the main treatment: sorbents, the drug "Viferon" are given in the same volume. The diet is the same.

1. Treatment for dehydration. It is necessary to give a drink to the patient, that is, to give him the volume of fluid put to him per kilogram of weight (for example, in children weighing 10 kg - 1 liter of liquid) plus a liquid that the person has already lost with diarrhea and vomiting, plus you need to refund the water that the patient Continues to lose.

To replenish the liquid you need solutions of "Oralit", "Regidron" or similar, in part - tea or plain water. You need to give a tea-dessert spoon every 10-15 minutes.

If the patient does not hold the patient's fluid, or if you notice that the volume of urine has decreased, contact the hospital, where this volume is returned intravenously, with the help of droppers.

2. Treatment of the acetone state is the introduction of solutions in the form of sweetened drink and electrolyte solutions. Calculation of the replenished fluid is also considered: the fluid needed to maintain life, plus water, already lost with feces, temperature, vomiting, plus the volume that is lost. In view of the fact that an elevated level of ketone bodies causes severe vomiting, it is often impossible to give a drink to a person. Only intravenously administered liquid can help him.

If 6-8 hours have passed since the home treatment, and you see that the child is getting worse, do not risk any longer - contact the hospital. If it is a question of the kid, and at all to wait it is not necessary - fast it is necessary to cause at once.