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Acute Respiratory Infection

Written By masgari on Thursday, March 10, 2011 | 7:57 AM


Acute Respiratory Tract Infection or a medical term is acute respiratory infection is a disease that attacks children under five and many of the some of the victims should be hospitalized in the hospital because of a dangerous disease. The attack on the respiratory tract in infancy can lead to disability and child to adult.

Death caused by acute respiratory infection between 20 percent to 30 percent, and is a health issue that should not be ignored because it causes the death of infants and toddlers are high at 1 in 4 deaths.

So it can be expected to have 3 to 6 episodes of ARI each year. Could then be presented about 40 percent to 60 percent of visits at the health center is a respiratory infection. This is the greatest mortality in general because of pneumonia and infants less than 2 months.

The disease can be transmitted through breathing air containing a recurrence are inhaled through the respiratory tract of healthy people. The virus that causes upper respiratory tract infections, which often occur in all segments of society in the winter.


However, ARI is not handled information, will be the specter of a pneumonia that attacks small children and infants when there is a lack of nutrients and supplemented with environmental conditions that are not clean.

Immunology a big burden as it is used for parasitic diseases and worms, unavailability or excessive use of antibiotics and the increasing cross-infection which is a major risk to children - children and toddlers.



Well ... This disease can be identified with kind of signs or symptoms that are generated:

  • Breath sounds weak and even disappear as there is fluid so that sounds harsh, there are symptoms of shortness of bluish, nostrils the breath or breathing hole where his nose is not, interested in the skin into the chest wall or can be called a retraction and an irregular respiratory system as well as fast.
  • Heart failure, hypertension, rapid heart rate sometimes weak sometimes contained in the circulatory system and heart.
  • Seizures and coma, confusion, headache, easy to stimulated, often anxious that the attack on the nervous system.
  • Tired and sweats a lot.

For children age 2 months to 5 years of seizures, the intensity decreased consciousness, poor nutrition and can not drink. As for children under 2 months which is the ability to drink a drop dramatically which is usually less than half the volume of each habit, wheezing, snoring fever, cold, and the intensity of consciousness decreased.

Tags : upper respiratory infections, bronchitis, symptoms of pneumonia, is pneumonia contagious, respiratory tract infection