The pediatrician told about the unsafe child the illness and called її symptoms Infectious mononucleosis - ce viral ailment, її calls the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), accompanied by pain and sore throat, increased lymph nodes, weak fever.

About the symptoms of infection on Instagram, pediatrician from Kharkiv Dar'ya Vlasenko.

What is known about mononucleosis.

Children and young adults are most often ill with mononucleosis.

Most people are infected with EBV in childhood and stink, while antibodies to the virus can occur in 90-95% of cases, but sometimes with the first infection, it can be blamed for acute illness-infectious mononucleosis.

VEB is considered to be of the herpesvirus family and in this case it also passes into a latent (inactive) phase, without symptoms..

How can you get an infection?

Most of the infection is transmitted through contact, the virus is spread in the skin, for example, in the case of stools, which is sometimes called "

3 hours of infection before the onset of symptoms of mononucleosis to pass in an average of 4 to 6 days.

Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis.

The temperature rise of the body is higher than 38 degrees.

Bіl at the throat, can be filled with that black.

Improvement of lymph nodes.

Weakness that feels like it (maybe for months).

Head bіl, ache at the body.

Enlargement of the spleen, pain in the abdomen.

Children under 5 years of age may have more than two symptoms.

How to make a diagnosis?

Based on characteristic symptoms.

Increase in the number of lymphocytes + atypical mononuclear cells in global blood analysis.

Detection of antibodies to EBV in the blood.

Close to 10% of illnesses, which are predicted by the symptoms of mononucleosis, are caused not by VEB (but by cytomegalovirus, herpes virus type 6 and 7, toxoplasmosis, etc.) and the result of the analysis for antibodies or the presence of VEB will be negative.

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