The Ministry of Health and Population revealed symptoms of respiratory diseases in children, such as syncytial virus, which were (difficulty breathing, fever, runny nose, vomiting, sore throat), stressing that a specialist should be visited when any of these symptoms appear on a child to receive care and treatment. suitable.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, indicated for the seventh day that the ministry has a strong epidemiological surveillance system for infectious diseases, in 27 facilities, explaining that since 2020 a number of simple cases that were diagnosed and then the disease disappeared, and in October and November 2022 it began Monitoring the seasonal attack of this virus, indicating that the pathological symptoms of the virus are simple to moderate, but its prevalence rates are high..
He stressed that there is no antibiotic to treat this disease because it is “viral” and not “bacterial”, and there is no vaccine for it yet, due to the periodic change in the virus’s proteins, but there is a treatment that is given to children at a young age, stressing that the most important methods of treating minor symptoms are Home comfort, and the use of fever reducers with the doctor’s instructions, warning against the wrong use of antibiotics in such pathological conditions.