When your child gets sick with a viral infection such as a cold, flu, or one of the
many other respiratory viruses, you can do several things to ease her symptoms and prevent serious complications.
Additional research is planned in part to determine if targeting metabolism might also be effective
against other respiratory viruses, including emerging respiratory viruses or others like respiratory syncytial virus, which causes life - threatening infections in infants.
While in the past CIV infections in and of themselves have not shown a significant mortality rate, CIV infections as well
as other respiratory viruses compromise the normal defenses of the lung permitting secondary bacterial pneumonias.
It begins like
any other respiratory virus with runny nose, fever and headache which are then followed with a rash on the face and body.
«The system could also be adapted for use with
other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
«We've known for a long time that RSV has an increased propensity, compared to
other respiratory viruses, for causing obstruction and inflammation in the narrowest airways of the infant lung, leading to severe bronchiolitis,» said Raymond Pickles, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and senior author of the JCI paper.
Andrew Pekosz is a virologist at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore who works with influenza A and
other respiratory viruses.
Over the course of the study, I had two common colds, one a rhinovirus and
the other a respiratory virus.
«The system could also be adapted for use with
other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, PhD, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.