Treatment of SARS and flu differs, say doctors

Ukrainian doctors pay attention of parents to differences in parental treatment of children from a regular virus and influenza. In the case of SARS, if your kid remains active, he/she needs only antipyretic drug at temperatures above 38.5 degrees, saline nose, cool room, and the constant use of water. Colds retreats in 3 - 5 days. The flu is accompanied with a sharp rise in temperature, chills, chest pain, uncontrollable coughing. If it is the flu without complications, the child recovers on the 5th day. Bacterial complications force ill kid to stay in bed for at least a week, said chief children immunologist of the city of Kyiv Fedir Lapiy.