Many children have had conjunctival congestion, tonsillitis, and fever since the last few months. Adenovirus infections have recently maintained more than 30 percent of respiratory viruses. Amid the steady pace of adenovirus, some people were worried that antibiotics were not prescribed even though they were suspected of adenovirus, so I sorted it out. Relationship between adenovirus morphology and antibiotics
The adenovirus is in the form of a regular dodecahedron, which contains many protein fragments and two strands of DNA.
This is a single-celled organism in the form of bacteria. There are several types of antibiotics, but they play a role in destroying the function and structure of bacteria such as. By the way, adenoviruses don’t have this kind of bacterial structure.So it doesn’t respond to antibiotics, does it? No powerful antibiotic has any effect on adenovirus
Antibiotics can only adversely affect the beneficial bacteria that live in our bodiessymptoms of adenovirus infection in childrensymptoms of adenovirus infection in childrenHigh fever can last for 3 to 4 days (and in some cases even longer), and neck and eye symptoms improve for most of the 7 days, but they can continue any longer. If accompanied by pneumonia, you may have a high fever, cough, and wheezing that lasts more than 39 degrees Celsius, but if it is mild, it will get better within two weeks. Other symptoms of gastroenteritis such as diarrhea and abdominal pain may also appear. Hemorrhagic cystitis and encephalitis are also possible in the case of immunocompromised or transplanted patients. severe pneumonia (very rare) that should be noted in children when infected with adenovirusAdroman, Source: Unsplash Severe adenovirus pneumonia fever lasts for a long time (more than 2 weeks), difficulty breathing, respiratory requirements, or severe pneumonia that shows these symptoms can occur in very young children between newborns and 18 months. In the case of these children, they have a long-term high fever and severe cough compared to other children, and they have a fast breathing rate and difficulty breathing. + In relation to adenovirus infection under the age of 2, intestinal lymphatic tissue proliferation, barriers and motility can cause intestinal superposition. Symptoms of mesatosis = red jelly stool/vomiting/periodically slow or abdominal painNo matter how powerful an antibiotic is, adenovirus does not work, so you don’t have to worry even if you don’t have an antibiotic prescription in the beginning. It is a virus that causes children to suffer from fever for too long. As I said at the beginning, other types of adenovirus can be reinfected and contracted immediately. There is no cure, but most children recover well. adenovirus infectionI hope you will overcome it well with your child’s strongest immune system. Way to go!!!Klanayake S, Tikoo SK. The core protein of adenovirus: structure and function. ウイルス 201.-https://www.brainkart.com/article/Mode-of-Action-of-Antibiotics_40970/-Shieh WJ. Update on human adenovirus infection-clinopathological correlation in pediatric populations. Biomedical J. 2022-Chen Suefei, Lv Jianhai, Qin Lu, Zou Chaochun, Tang Lanfang, Severe Adenovirus Pneumonia in Need of Extranodermal Oxygenation Assistance in Immunocompetent Children, Pediatric Boundaries, 2020