First signs of influenza

Influenza is an acute disease thatis incredibly contagious and can lead to complications. It is very important to recognize the disease in time and start its treatment, especially in children. This will help prevent serious consequences in the form of pneumonia and meningitis. In this article, we will look at the first signs of influenza.

Influenza in children

Children suffer the disease in different ways. Some continue to play and run even with a high temperature, others become listless, capricious and sleepy. In any case, children should be treated when the first symptoms appear. Symptoms

flu in children are as follows:

• Loss of appetite.

• Drowsiness, apathy.

• Coryza.

• Temperature increase.

• Headache.

• Red throat.

Sometimes signs of influenza begin to manifest immediatelyafter getting into the body of pathogens. The incubation period ranges from several hours to several days, after which the child has the first symptoms.

Influenza in adults

Few people know that the flu can cause a huge number of various viruses. Most often they provoke respiratory diseases characterized by

strong cold, sinusitis and angina. But there are other viruses, to which a person after the transferred illness develops immunity for a year.

The first signs of influenza are as follows:

• Body aches.

• Headache.

• Chills or fever.

• Coryza.

• Trembling in the body.

• Pain in the eyes.

• Sweating.

• Unpleasant sensation in the mouth.

• Lethargy, apathy or irritability.

To these symptoms very quickly joinselevated temperature, which for some may not rise above 38 degrees, but most often holds at around 39 degrees. Usually it falls off on the fourth day of the disease.

Intestinal flu

There is also a rotavirus infection thatwas called "intestinal flu." The disease is very contagious and lasts about 5 days. However, rotavirus infection does not apply to influenza in general. It is an independent disease that leads to intestinal frustration. Most often, children under the age of four suffer from this.

Signs of intestinal flu:

• pain in the stomach, stomach;

• increased gassing;

• severe diarrhea (up to 20 times in bitches);

• frequent vomiting;

• temperature increase.

Rotavirus was called "intestinal flu" due to the fact that very often

These signs are joined by other symptoms that are inherent in normal influenza. Namely - a runny nose, a headache, a sore throat.

The disease is extremely contagious. If one member of the family becomes ill, everything soon starts to hurt. But after the transferred rotavirus infection, immunity is developed, which allows not to face the disease for several years.

Know the first signs of the flu - it means beingready to meet with seasonal disease. Viruses actively propagate and spread mainly in spring and autumn. In summer, in hot weather, they do not survive. But there are summer flu viruses that have the property of living in water. When the first symptoms appear, you need to provide yourself or your child with bed rest and start treatment.

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