Symptoms of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
When the respiratory syncytial virus enters the body produces an activation of the immune system produces antibodies, ie, defenses directed against a specific pathogen, but because the virus has antigenic variation (has small mutations that allow escape recognition of our immune system) recurrent infection by the respiratory syncytial virus are common, and no group seems to be fully protected.
What are the main symptoms of the disease?
Infection with this virus, unlike others, rarely is asymptomatic. In most cases, is manifested by a lower respiratory tract disease in the form of pneumonia (lung infection), tracheobronchitis (inflammation affecting the bronchi and trachea) or bronchiolitis, it can also cause fever or otitis media, as Now we’ll see.
The lower respiratory tract disease is often preceded by an upper respiratory tract infection, nasal congestion and sore throat, temperature is generally high (between 38 ° C and 40 ° C) and their duration varies from two to four days. The patient will usually have a cough, which is the most striking sign of the disease is not persistent cough, but that comes and goes, and is sometimes associated with vomiting. A few days the cough becomes more evident and is accompanied by shortness of breath.
Otitis media is a common complication of respiratory syncytial virus infection in young children, most common in infants, have discomfort in the ear.
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