Three-week flu: factors that prolong respiratory infections

Wake up realize that yours children they had illnesses respiratory since last fall.

“We started somewhere in October, November, when they started getting sick, like the flu, well, you know, we took them to the pediatrician, and they couldn’t get past paracetamol or loratadine, they went out for a week and relapsed again, and that’s how we kept to “Now that we’re already in February”. Estela Romero / readings

Why do respiratory diseases last so long?

specialists explain why extend both diseases respiratory Are they bacterial or viral.

He first The factor, they say, is pollution environment, explains the pediatric allergist-infectious disease specialist, – Gerardo Lopez Perez.

“The environmental aspect has contributed greatly to direct damage to the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, that is, what covers the nose, throat and lower respiratory tract, that is, the bronchi, and this leads to their constant inflammation.”

Gerardo Lopez Perez / pediatric allergist-infectious disease specialist

However, there is second factor: allergy.

“One of the conditions that causes a person to have long-term symptoms of what appears to be the common flu or to constantly recur due to these respiratory symptoms is what people with allergies correspond to.”

. Gerardo Lopez Perez / Pediatric allergist-infectious disease specialist

Likewise, another one factors Are illnesses Chronicles.

“People suffering from diabetes, people suffering from chronic bronchitis or COPD, people suffering from cardiovascular diseases, other people suffering from gastroesophageal reflux, which is a very common pathology, then it irritates the airways and causes them to also have a state of permanence. “

Gerardo Lopez Perez / pediatric allergist-infectious disease specialist

symptoms they are more persistent stuffy nose and cough. If they don’t leave, you’ll have to go

With specialist.

“An allergist, like a pulmonologist, like an otolaryngologist, the doctor who treats you, if you observe this behavior, should refer you to these specialists.”. Gerardo Lopez Perez / Pediatric allergist-infectious disease specialist