How to protect yourself from influenza and other acute respiratory

With the onset of the cold season,there are favorable conditions for the spread of pathogens of acute respiratory viral infections, leading to an increase in the incidence of these infections, as well as a threat of a flu epidemic. The group of acute respiratory viral infections owns a large number of viral diseases that occurs with lesions of the upper respiratory tract. The most common SARS: influenza, para-influenza respiratory sentytsialna, and rynovirusna adenoviral infection.

The source of infection is the sick man of these infections: SARS patient identifies pathogens in the environment with droplets of saliva and mucus in cough, sniff, conversation. The patient, being at work or classes, one day can infect nearly one hundred of their colleagues. Infection of healthy humans is by inhalation of particulate mucus and saliva selected patients.


" Typical clinical signs of SARS: fever, weakness, malaise, headache, scratchy or sore throat, dry cough, runny nose, difficulty breathing through the nose. The disease usually begins acutely with chills, hot flashes, severe headache, pain in the eyes. Disturbing ache in the back, buttocks, joints, muscle pain, disturbed sleep. Already in the early hours of the disease the body temperature reaches 39-40 ° C. Difficult breathing through the nose, the face becomes puffy, his eyes shine. Whole face of the patient with influenza like face tearful child. On the second day of the disease there is a dry cough, trouble begins chest pain , "- says Yuri Randyuk , assistant professor of infectious diseases and epidemiology Bukovina State Medical University .


For the prevention of influenza and other acute respiratory specialist advises follow these tips. Regulate the regime of work and rest, avoid excessive physical and psychological stress, isolated enough time for sleep. Make outdoor exercise, using the parks, gardens or area adjacent green space. Based on the street, Dress according to the weather, avoid hypothermia, drafts, getting wet feet. Limit attendance of crowded (cinemas, discos, etc.). Should also limit the use of public transport if the distance is small better go. If necessary, use a gauze bandage on classes, indoor shopping facilities, public transport, etc..


It is advisable to regularly wet cleaning and airing the apartment. Another important aspect in the prevention of acute respiratory infections are regulated regime and diet: Eat at least 3 times a day with a mandatory first course at dinner time every day eat fruits (apples, pears, oranges, tangerines), and also salads with raw cabbage, carrots, beets, dressed greens, garlic, onions, prefer drinks with berries, such as teas and decoctions of dried, frozen or mashed with sugar viburnum, blackberry, currants, strawberries. However, the most effective way to prevent the flu is vaccination, which is held for 2-3 weeks before the epidemic.

Employees of the Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine BSMU held the first exit simulation training in resuscitation and post-reanimation neonatal physicians to Ternopil

In October 2010, the International Conciliation Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR)  presented new recommendations for primary neonatal intensive care that will determine global clinical practice over the next 5 years. Conclusions and recommendations of previous international consensus, conference were published in late 2005 and became the basis for the development of existing national guidelines on post-reanimation resuscitation and newborn care. Working Group of the Association of Neonatologists Ukraine, composed of leading scientists and experts from health began preparing a new protocol with the resuscitation of newborns who meet the current recommendations of ILCOR 2010.

Employees of the Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine Bukovina State Medical University in the 2012-2013 academic year began on-site simulation training post-reanimation resuscitation and newborn care with the goal of exploring physicians neonatologists, obstetricians, gynecologists and anesthetists obstetric facilities in Western Ukraine with international standards newborn care in critical condition, including the algorithm and post-reanimation resuscitation neonatal.

First exit simulation training was held on 24-28 September 2012 at the Regional Children's Hospital Ternopil. Classes are conducted by the department of pediatrics, neonatology and perinatal medicine BSMU MD, Professor YD Hodovanets and assistant chair of MD AG Babintseva. To participate in the training sessions were involved doctors neonatologists, anesthesiologists, obstetricians and obstetric facilities Ternopil and Ternopil region. Students were presented modern world standards post-reanimation resuscitation and newborn care as recommended by ILCOR 2010, and changes in protocol are expected, on the main stages of the current algorithm neonatal resuscitation (MOH of Ukraine № 312 of 06.08.2007 year). Doctors were able to consolidate knowledge through the use of tests to lectures, as well as elaborate practical skills in resuscitation of newborns to mock.

As the specialist neonatologist, MD, Professor YD Hodovanets: "Training of specialists in the postgraduate education, with current data EBM and WHO recommendations intended to ensure the implementation of modern perinatal care, improve medical care to newborns with severe perinatal pathology, including those with low and very low weight body, which reduces perinatal mortality, prevention of disability in childhood growth and improvement of the demographic situation in the country. Effective implementation of modern technologies to provide emergency newborn may only constant continuous training of doctors who work in maternity and medical institutions at all levels of perinatal care, including by means of simulation training. "

This information is from the university website "http://www.bsmu.edu.ua/".