Doctors compare the development of the disease with the movement of water in the river. The keys that feed her for the time being are hiding in the background: this period corresponds to the latent (latent) course of the pathological process. When it gains strength, the ailment enters an acute period. When untimely diagnosis or treatment is wrong, it can be delayed by acquiring an acute and then chronic course with periodic exacerbations.
How to wave to wave
When the acute process becomes chronic? Depends on the disease! For example, from acute gastritis, which often occurs in schoolchildren in autumn, the child must recover in 5-7 days, from the common cold - for 1-2, bronchus - for 2-3 weeks. Sinusitis, lasting more than 3 weeks, doctors call lingering. And if the disease did not retreat to the end of the 6th week, it means that it went into a chronic form. Cough and other signs of bronchitis disturb your child 4-6 weeks? There is a protracted course of the disease. Do symptoms last longer? The child has every reason to be enrolled in the chronicle team. It is replenished at the expense of children with a hereditary predisposition to this or that disease, and also at the expense of often ill children and those who study in lyceums and gymnasiums with a complicated program. And some chronic diseases, such as allergies, come from early childhood: they have the ability to grow and develop with the child. It all begins with infant diathesis, which after a year is transformed into atopic dermatitis (he is a neurodermatitis or eczema). This skin disease occurs in every third baby suffering from allergies, and in 70% of cases to school age it is covered with a whole bunch of others like yourself: an allergic rhinitis, hay fever, asthmatic bronchitis, on the basis of which bronchial asthma is formed. Fortunately, there is always the hope that the child will overgrow his diagnosis over time, especially if he is helped in this.
From the Chronicle
The more a child suffers from acute respiratory infections, the higher the likelihood of developing a chronic illness and the more often he catches a cold. Ophthalmologists have long noticed: the higher the training load, the more work they have. In lyceums and gymnasiums, children's eyesight worsens already in the first grade, and in general schools - only to grade 4-5. Writing a child to the gymnasium, moms and dads should be aware that such an intensive system of education places high demands on children's health. The kid, who already has a chronic pathology, will not be able to pull such a load, and often a sick child, learning such a regime, may well become a chronicle. Do not want to take the child from a prestigious educational institution and the team to which he is accustomed? Try to reduce its load! It is considered no more than three cases of ARI per year, and for children from one year to 3 years - no more than five such episodes. If your child does not get out of colds, be prepared for the fact that the pediatrician will write it in the number of FBD - often ailing children. This abbreviation is rather a warning medical sign, indicating that the baby is at risk for developing chronic diseases of the ENT organs, bronchi and lungs (in particular, allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma), as well as rheumatism and glomerulonephritis (inflammatory kidney disease ). And in his school years, he may show a tendency to chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, neurotic reactions, leafing. To prevent their development, domestic pediatricians isolated often sick children in a special observation group. Show your son or daughter to the ENT doctor, immunologist, allergist, make blood tests, urine and bacteriological examination of swabs from the nasopharynx. And most importantly, try not to let everything that weakens the children's protective system: hypothermia, refusal of daylight and reduction of night sleep in preschool children, overwork and overexcitation! This will negatively affect your health. Together with the pediatrician, develop a set of preventive measures. One of the most effective ways to increase immunity is tempering. It is useful and chronically ill children. By creating greenhouse conditions, you worsen the state of the protective forces of the child's body: they weaken without training, like muscles without movement. Strengthen immunity by dousing with cool water, long walks, sleeping outdoors in the summer and with an open window in the winter, chest massage and therapeutic gymnastics.
School of Health
It's no secret that many children make the school a chronicle. Adapting to it, first-graders experience great tension, leading to an increase in acute and chronic diseases of the ENT organs, digestive and nervous system. Transfer a frequently or chronically ill child to free schooling or at least arrange a day off for him or her throughout the week. You can agree on this with the class teacher or ask the pediatrician for the relevant certificate. If a schoolboy is tired, does not feel well, let him study at home or at all rest from lessons, and the next day he will catch up. Take care that the child must have breakfast before school: a hungry morning leads to imbalance of biorhythms of the child's organism and exacerbation of chronic pathology. Give freshly squeezed orange juice, green tea and rose hip to the student for vivacity, cook porridge in the morning (they are energy-intensive) and offer fruit - one apple, a banana, two mandarins ... By the way, all pupils are first-graders and eleven-graders, especially with chronic diagnosis, should be eaten 5 times a day (every 3-4.5 hours) at the same time. Compliance with the diet and the day as a whole promotes synchronization of internal processes and serves as a kind of protection against exacerbations of diseases.