It is long, difficult and can lead to complications. Symptoms appear between the 4th and 6th day
With stuffy nose, fever, tiredness and cough, children and adults fill private doctors’ offices.
Respiratory boom
diseases are also reported by epidemiologists in our country. However, the symptoms may not only be from respiratory viruses, but also from COVID, the Jeeps explain.
Although the coronavirus has subsided and the Unified Information Portal reports 200 infected per day, according to experts, there are twice as many. “Late” COVID affects both children and adults, but people aren’t tested and don’t even know they have it.
“I woke up with a headache, a sore throat, and shortly after a strong cough began, as well as a high fever,” a recently recovered patient told “24 Hours”. However, he said, he had lost his sense of smell and taste, a symptom that is no longer so common for COVID strains. Between three and five thousand people are being tested for the coronavirus a day, and about 5 percent of them test positive, according to a reference in the Unified Information Portal.
“Summer and warm weather have eased the infections, but we are likely to enter a new covid phase. The weakening of measures, especially in winter, is like an ‘almost extinguished’ fire – we put it out, but we left several fires smoldering – careless and irresponsible,” commented vaccine safety expert and head of a laboratory in Bern Dr. Asparuh Iliev on his Facebook profile.
He advises people to continue wearing masks on public transport and indoors.
At the same time, respiratory viruses are also declining en masse, personal doctors say.
“The bouquet of viruses is currently richer”,
Pulmonologist Dr. Alexander Simidchiev explained to “Bulgaria on Air”. Spread of two types of flu – H1N1, the so-called swine flu and H3N5, which is a variant of the standard one, have been registered at the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Together with them, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, adenoviruses, paraviruses, etc. circulate.
The data published by the center confirm the increase in infected people. In the first week of November there were 2,972 people suffering from acute respiratory diseases, almost 1,500 fewer than at the beginning of December.
“Respiratory syncytial virus, which is dangerous for newborns and many elderly people, is the first place with many times more frequent infection among people,” center director Prof. Iva Hristova commented to BNR. According to her, in very young children and the elderly, it can take longer, be more severe and lead to bronchiolitis, and respiratory function can be more severely affected. And this requires hospitalization of patients. Symptoms of syncytial virus usually appear between the fourth and sixth day after infection. For this condition
home regimen, rest and exact compliance with the prescribed treatment are recommended
Treatment doesn’t start with antibiotics in people with good immunity, doctors advise.
Among the most important preventive measures aimed at stopping the spread of the infection are quarantine and the use of masks.
During the pandemic, the immunity of younger children has weakened and they are more seriously ill, according to private doctors. And according to the virologist and consultant for health issues of the Metropolitan Municipality, Prof. Todor Kantarjiev, the measures that have been followed in the last 2 years have reduced the spread of most of the infections.
