How many infections are normal?
Once again, nose and cough of the child - who normally can not be! However, it can calm down: it is simply normal. Children in the first years of life to train their immune system to cope with a variety of pathogens front. The infections in childhood is quite natural. And if his son on several occasions colds, the symptoms are similar, each time, but there are always other pathogens, which are troubled. This is not surprising if you know that there are over 100 different cold viruses.
Even without defensive weakness up to twelve infections per year
Colds with colds, possibly a slight fever in the early days of illness and / or additional cough occur in children who do not weakened relatively common. On average,
* Babies of six to eight times per year,
* Children aged one to four years eight to nine times a year,
* Children aged five to seven years six to eight times per year under a cold.
If your child this year in kindergarten or in the crib come, it may be that you have the feeling that today is almost constantly ill. Especially in the early months of an infection often follows the other. And even this is not normal, because the nursery and kindergarten children are often up to twelve infections a year.
Because children as many infections in otolaryngology-through the area, are often swollen neck, hard and not infrequently, painful to lymph nodes. Although many parents fear the same could be worse: neck swollen lymph nodes are signs of increased advocacy and in most cases harmless. It may be weeks or months until the swelling has completely cleared the lymph nodes and not enredarte. However, you must make swollen lymph nodes in the next date of the medical examination of the child, so certainly not overlooked!
Fewer infections such as rapid Recovery those Infekthäufigkeit is not so important, because how could you just read are a good number of infections per year normally. How often your child is sick, depends crucially on how much contact with pathogens.
Much more important is how the infection to her son term. Recover after an infection quickly? Will it be done without antibiotics? Or, each of colds or bronchitis a thick middle ear inflammation, but once again the antibiotic needs to be addressed? Our test helps determine when a severe immune deficiency.
Test: Is your child suspected of abnormal immune?
* Do you or other family member with a congenital immune deficiency?
* If your child is more than a year and has not stopped Soorpilz in the mouth? Li () Is it twice a year or more under a pneumonia?
* If your child twice a year or more severe sinusitis?
* Has your child is eight or more purulent middle ear infections per year?
* Is your child never in serious infections, such as bone marrow, skin and brain inflammation ill?
* They are with him on several occasions abscesses of the skin or internal organs occurred?
* If your baby or your child existed in childhood redness on the hands and feet that are not covered by a skin disease caused or are?
* Has your child ever been two months without treatment antibiotic therapy has beaten?
* If your child after the measles, mumps, rubella and / or vaccine against chickenpox complications occurred, which has a redness in the Inoculation place, short-term fever or a short-term weakness of the eruption go further?
* Is your child a way to prosper and grow slightly less than normal?
* If your child never abnormalities in the blood has been determined to speak immunodeficiency, for example, a call leukopenia (reducing the number of white blood cells)?
Evaluations:
If you are none of those questions yes, your child is not suspected of being an immune, even if it is very often colds or suffering gastro-intestinal infections.
Does one or more questions is yes, you should ask your pediatrician to ask for a thorough investigation, if only in immunodeficiency existence of several signals of the survey is likely. However, failure to thrive, for example, by intolerance to gluten (celiac disease) are activated and repeated lung infections can be an asthma behind him so that clarification is necessary.
Fortunately, congenital immune deficiencies, which is undoubtedly a serious disruption of the immune system there, very rare. Of the most common form of antibody deficiency is only one of the 15,000 children affected.
Children with a congenital immunodeficiency
* In general, see constantly sick,
* Infections after recovering very slowly (appetite and the general state of health remain disproportionately affected long)
* They are often physically underdeveloped,
* Despite frequent infections often small almonds (healthy children, however, are quite large and tonsils "polyps") and
* To develop normally harmless infections often complications.
In the case of cold permanent asthma and allergies think!
If your child in the winter months is constantly cold, should not always a cold virus, which makes creating. It could also be allergic to house dust mites or mold behind. These observations are in a stuffy nose or Sneezing accumulations (mite allergy often in the morning after the adjournment). Moreover, the mucous membranes of the respiratory allergy to the attacked, so that each additional cold very quickly fixed.
If your child has bronchitis and permanently several times in an inflammation of the lung was sick and / or evening often cough, asthma may be one behind. Another test, for example, coughing or wheezing to breathe after the race and Rave violent or laughter. Infektbedingtem children with asthma often catching a night before the first symptoms of a cold (runny nose, sneezing attacks) during the night to dry cough.
If your child permanently cold, there should be absolutely careful, pediatrician (preferably with the additional designation of Allergology) will also be explored. In addition to research normal Abhorchen including the lungs, followed by an allergy test and - as the preschool - a study of lung function. Because without the necessary treatment antiasthmatische or rehabilitation of housing for mites or mold allergy is the "cold period" will not improve.
