Cold from the flu, bronchitis to pneumonia ... Winter diseases

Cold, endless rain, and life is enough to harass the lives of people paralyzed by snow. These problems are in the upper and lower respiratory tract infections as not yet able to condemn us to bed. Find a cure for many diseases of modern medicine, unfortunately it still does not provide the exact solution to this epidemic ravaged the world each year. Thus, infection of healthy seasonal changes seen to spend most common methods of protection from these diseases and know the first doctor to listen to their suggestions!

Colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia ... upper and lower respiratory tract infections shrugged reduce our quality of life by many of us and takes us a long time among the major health problems that keep our business. Even particularly pneumonia can lead to serious, even life tables that could cost as much as those in the risk groups. This disease takes us under the influence of the most common seasonal transition is sudden changes in temperature and winter. Especially in cold weather made en masse closed and poorly ventilated spaces in order to infect the virus creates the ideal environment.

This season, in addition to our benefit less from the sun, have more exposure to stress that suppress the immune system, which helps the growth of infectious agents. Fortunately, the upper and lower respiratory tract to be protected from the possible, also with treatment to get rid of! This month is the most important way to spend a healthy passes through the first doctor to listen to their suggestions. Anadolu Medical Center Internal Medicine Specialist Dr. Sadi Rushdie most common diseases of the winter season Vural, told with prevention methods and treatment.

UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS

Flu-COLDS,

Colds; characterized by mild symptoms in some caused by various viruses and upper respiratory tract is defined as a disease. Almost everyone caught a cold once or twice a year. Especially in recent months due to sudden temperature changes of the seasons change is increasing the incidence of colds. Therefore, most colds are emerging in the fall. Spend more time indoors, poor ventilation conditions and benefit less from the sun, is accelerating the development and spread of the infection. While there is interest in the age and gender of illness, children are said to be more sensitive than adults. Colds goes up to one week without the need to treat themselves within ten days. However, disease sinusitis, otitis media does cause complications such as pneumonia and harder for the patient's recovery and treatment duration will be longer.

How smears? Inhalation of virus spread by sneezing and coughing up the results of the smears. In addition, the virus can spread through contact with respiratory secretions and hand.

Symptoms: The symptoms can begin after a few hours after the virus infected colds. Weakness, mild headache, slight fever, cough, redness and tearing eyes, runny nose and burning sensation in the upper respiratory tract are the most important symptoms of colds. Decreased sense of smell and taste, also to be found in sound quality with various symptoms, such as a feeling of pressure in the ears.

How is it treated? Antibiotic treatment of colds should not be heard. Applying treating symptoms of the disease. Headache, malaise, and fever medications can be used to the paracetamol. Saline nose wash with water and consume plenty of vitamin C rich foods also among the methods that utilize common colds. In addition, nasal congestion relieving spray or nasal drops, is also effective. The rest and avoiding stress, helping to regain the body resistance. Colds; sinusitis can lead to serious complications such as pneumonia and otitis media. Therefore, despite the lapse of one week's notice that everyone who needs to be intensified to improve the complaints and do not forget to consult a doctor.

How to be protected?
- The disease is spreading rapidly in closed and crowded places. Therefore, careful to avoid public displays of experienced indoor environment
- Do not go into close contact with people who suffer from cold
- Viruses can survive where they infect. Therefore, be sure to use your personal belongings with people who suffer from cold.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water.

GRİP- INFLUENZA
Flu virus is defined as an acute infectious disease. The structure of the influenza virus can spread very common in society has changed rapidly without encountering any resistance, can cause epidemic affecting the whole world. Generally, if the epidemic can be seen in the late summer arises in the autumn cold months. flu; children, the elderly and patients with decreased body resistance under the more people are taking effect. Schools, barracks, factories, prisons and nursing homes and in public places such as the living virus is spread more easily and rapidly spreading disease. Public transport in the fall and winter, the place where the crowd as theater and cinema also known to facilitate the spread of the disease. Flu is slowly starting to improve in 4-5 days and often goes in a week. However, sinusitis, otitis media, pneumonia, inflammation of the pericardium and if complications such as meningitis and disease, especially in children and the body develops resistance turns into a killer in elderly patients with reduced table. It also leads to serious loss for labor, connect the patient to bed for days.

How smears? Influenza viruses are spread by droplets of saliva.

Symptoms: Flu virus transmission within 1 - 3 days after symptoms begin to develop. Fever with chills in the 39 - 40 degree turns. At first, joints and muscles, especially in the waist with back pain occurs. These, as well as fatigue, nausea and vomiting can sometimes be seen. Sore throat, are found frequently in severe symptoms like coughing and burning in the chest. Formed in the body from pain and fatigue can fall due to bed.

Treatment: Bed rest for the effective treatment of influenza is recommended. The relief of reducing the high fever and muscle aches are the most important target for treatment. Exploited the drug of paracetamol to reduce fever. Contrary to popular belief is not required in the treatment of influenza antibiotics. However, if the elderly and children to prevent the occurrence of complications such as risk or complications can be applied to develop antibiotics to treat them. Runny nose, sore throat, burning occurs, mouthwash to reduce the sensation of pain with compassion, sprays, lozenges and cough syrups are also used. Rich foods to consume plenty of fluids and plenty of vitamin C must not be missing from the table. To pay attention to rest and sleep patterns also provide very useful for the relief of muscle pain and general fatigue.

How to be protected?

- Avoid close contact with people who contract the flu
- Pen, use your personal belongings such as books and cups with a sick person
- Make sure to hand hygiene. Avoid contact with eyes and nose with your hand
- Especially from indoors, stay away as possible from the best non-ventilated place.
- Make sure to dress according to the season. What are your clothes too thin, nor should be very thick.
- Do not forget to get the flu vaccine. Today, the flu (influenza) vaccine constitute the safest way to protect against this disease. Influenza vaccines July - December applied between the outer surface of the upper arm as a single dose. Pandemic influenza virus changes every year, which in itself. The World Health Organization (WHO) also forms the vaccine formulation After determining the structure of the virus. Therefore, you need to repeat the season flu vaccine each fall. Those over the age of 65, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic heart and circulatory system disease, suffering from kidney failure and diabetes are taking place within the groups to be vaccinated. At the same time, medical personnel, working in the public services, those in close contact with those in the risk groups are taking advantage of the flu vaccine. However, 6 months of little baby, women within the first 2 months of pregnancy (if determined to be necessary by the doctor can be certain influenza vaccine) and have to make a flu vaccine to those allergic to eggs.

LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS

Acute bronchitis

Usually, upper respiratory tract infection and then developing bronchitis, emerges as a result of inflammation of the bronchi. Acute bronchitis is usually settled in the bronchi causing viruses such as ifluenz. Colds and flu are said to be more prone to bronchitis of individuals experiencing. On the other hand, where there is no rest for a long time, and ventilation in indoor workers are accounted for in the risk group. In addition, the body resistance is lower for smokers also are responding and are becoming harder to treat bronchitis easier.

How smears? Acute bronchitis virus is spread through close contact such as shaking hands or by the patient or person by breathing.

Symptoms: Dry cough form the typical symptom of bronchitis. Focusing especially cough at night sometimes last for days. Cells settled in developing bronchial mucus unless sufficient wetting fluid taken. Weakness and chest pain are common symptoms again tops. Necessarily need to have a high fever, bronchitis. Acute bronchitis and pneumonia can also cause the same symptoms. Therefore, if you have a high fever, you feel sluggish yourself and do not forget to consult a doctor for diagnosis If you cough in progress.

Treatment: requiring the use of antibiotics in the treatment of bronchial inaudible. Antitussive drugs against cough is given. However, bronchitis characterized by sputum often exploited without antibiotics. Adding a high fever and pain relief therapy in patients with pain. Water consumed plenty of fluids such as linden tea or fruit juices also provide very useful to moisten the bronchi. Average it takes 10 days for the treatment of acute bronchitis. However, fatigue, continued to cigarette consumption by moving to inadequate nutrition and treatment of the disease leads to turn into pneumonia. Therefore, be sure to treat the patient and needs to rest for a week to regain necessarily re resistance of the body.

How to be protected?

- The emergence of air pollution as much as possible in the days of intense street
- Avoid closed and poorly ventilated environment
- Avoid close contact with people caught bronchitis
- Non-consuming this, as in no-smoking places
- Wash your hands often with soap and water

pneumonia

Winter more frequent pneumonia, which is considered as a serious lung infection caused by bacteria or viruses. Despite the diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia developing today still represents one of the most common disease causing death. Although infant pneumonia occur at any age, affecting more children and in older individuals. All pneumococcal pneumonia bacteria blamed for half of the cases. Especially in elderly individuals comprising this bacterial pneumonia, a disease in which disrupts the immune system, diabetes, kidney or liver cirrhosis can cause suffering in the table can be fatal. World Health Organization data, every year thousands of people in the world 10-15 reveal that the catch pneumonia. In our country, according to Ministry of Health statistics seen 90 thousand cases of pneumonia each year, and 2,500 people lost their lives. But experts say the real figure for Turkey is very much higher than watch and said that every year about 500 thousand people caught pneumonia. Again, according to Health Ministry data, 1 in our country - 22 percent of the most common causes of death in children between ages 4 forms of this disease.

Symptoms: Symptoms usually begin suddenly after upper respiratory tract infection. High fever, chills - chills, cough, sputum, breathing style sink chest pain, shortness of breath, loss of appetite and reduces symptoms such as bed patients. However, the disease can progress in the insidious way; persistent dry cough response to chest pain, other symptoms such as shortness of breath and can sputum was encountered. Many patients with head and joint pain, skin rashes, vomiting and diarrhea as the extrapulmonary symptoms can develop.

How smears? Pneumococcus is spread through close contact with sick people. Bacteria entering the body through breathing alone or droplets.

Treatment: Pneumonia strong antibiotics are needed to treat a disease. Today, almost all existing antibiotics effective against bacteria. Important that the correct selection of antibiotic treatment, the use of adequate dose and duration. However geçtikte day of pneumococcal resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics can cause problems gain treatment. Unlike the flu fall from a high fever pneumonia can find a week. After the fall of pneumonia in patients with fever should continue as long as the doctor recommends treatment with antibiotics. Treatment also relieve cough, fever reducing, diluting the mucus and also facilitating removal of benefiting from the drug. Bed rest plays an important role in the recycling of the body resistance. Pneumonia the treatment period lasts 1-3 weeks.

How to be protected?

- Many bacteria and to prevent precisely to prevent the virus from pneumonia because it opens the way method does not exist. The only way to make a vaccine to prevent pneumonia. For this purpose two types of vaccines applied current; If one of these other influenza vaccine pneumococcal vaccine. Influenza vaccine should be repeated every year, is obtained immunity lasts for 5 years with pneumococcal vaccine. Especially the heart, lungs, blood, kidneys and diabetes, splenectomy people, including taking the absolute pneumonia vaccine for high-risk individuals, such as those over the age of 65 is recommended. Experts said that the right of making pregnant women and children under 2 years of age with pneumonia vaccine.

GENERAL MEASURES ..

Get plenty of vitamin C; To consume fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C. Wear appropriate to the season. Consume plenty of warm liquid foods. Learn rest. In this way, both the shorter time you heal, you can not prevent the spread of the disease to the environment.

By sneezing of flu or cold to avoid contamination through droplets eneksiyon Try to stay away from crowded places.

Do not reuse handkerchiefs that you use to sneeze.

Be careful hand hygiene, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.

Getting a flu vaccine.

Cold heart imposes an extra burden. Such as heart disease or cold air outside snowplow without telling your doctor if you have high blood pressure do not do heavy work. If you need to dress up the good work and check to see if in slow motion. Remember that your body is already working more than necessary to maintain the temperature, you increase the load as well.

The sun shows its face increasingly rare. Days are getting shorter. Approaching rain and snow. The human body is also considered a similar nature to that of fatigue, depressive state can be dominant. Seasonal changes affect people's psychology. In addition to our soul in our body begins some changes. Daily energy, is an increase in the vitamin and mineral requirements.

To prevent infections due to seasonal changes, increase the body resistance and to feed properly comes to mind first as vitamins. Vitamins, which has many important functions and protective features, materials need to be a jump is not produced by the body.

A balanced diet helps maintain the body temperature. Do not use alcoholic beverages will increase heat loss. Put the sugar or a hindrance to terms instead of hot drinks and your health. Increase the body resistance in sports. Exercise regularly ..