Diseases causing fever
Common in infants and young children are cold, food and other specific diseases - causing fever and symptoms. It takes more than eight years for a child to fully shape the child's immune system, which means that children up to this time are particularly susceptible to various types of ailments that pose a minor threat to adults.
Diseases causing fever in children
- measles (symptoms: fever, red eyes, tearing, photophobia, runny nose, sore throat, tiring and dry cough);
- mumps (symptoms: painful swelling below the ears, swelling of the submandibular and sublingual salivary glands, thicker neck, fever);
- rubella (symptoms: pink rash, initially behind the ears on the neck and then on the entire body, enlargement and painful lymph nodes on the back of the neck, on the neck, a small fever);
- meningitis (symptoms: bad general condition, fever, headache, vomiting, stiff neck)
- chickenpox (symptoms: red spots filling with serous fluid, and then breaking at the slightest injury, the pustules formed in this place are covered with scabs that fall off after 1-3 weeks, fever up to 40 ° C).
- other - otitis media, three-day fever, painful teething, other inflammation.
In addition, the reason for the elevated temperature may be:
bronchitis and bronchiolitis, pneumonia, reaction to protective vaccinations, sunburn, allergic reactions, diseases of the immune system, and other inflammations. e.t.c.
Treatment of influenza and colds
Pirogens - the direct cause of fever
Pirogens are special protein substances that cause fever. The so-called. External pyrogens are found in bacteria, metabolism products, and virus growth, and can also form in some immune processes. They usually appear in the bloodstream as a result of an infectious viral, bacterial infection, etc. In response to these pyrogens, the destroyers of phagocytic germs of leukocytes and monocytes are activated. These types of immune cells produce so-called endogenous pyrogens. The latter increase the production of specific inflammation mediators in the hypothalamus (especially prostaglandins). Mediators deregulate the temperature center in the brain, resulting in an increase in body temperature.
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