Your child may get RSV from a school-aged sibling or at a daycare center.What increases my child's risk for a severe RSV infection?Premature (early) birth, or a low birth weight A weak immune system A heart or lung problem Being formula fed, or little or no breastfeeding Exposure to ...
The Respiratory Syncytial Virus is a major cause of respiratory illness in all ages. In adults, it tends to cause mild cold symptoms; in school-aged children, it can cause a cold and bronchial cough; in infants and toddlers it can cause bronchiolitis (inflammation of the smaller airways of ...
especially in the school-aged child. School-aged children may resent being admitted to the hospital, and the lack of energy to do activities that they like may frustrate them even more.
An estimated 58,000 to 80,000 children under age 5 are hospitalized with the virus every year, as well as 60,000 to 160,000 people aged 65 and older, the CDC said. Moreover, some infants and young children are at aneven greater risk of severe illnessfrom RSV, includ...
Of the 62 million common colds requiring medical attention in the United States each year, more than 80% affect school-aged children. Controlled clinical trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of zinc gluconate glycine lozenges (Cold-Eeze) in reducing cold duration. The objective of this study ...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) poses a significant public health challenge, especially among children. Although palivizumab and nirsevimab, neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the RSV F protein, have been used for prophylaxis, their limitations u
License Application for nirsevimab for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract disease in newborns and infants entering or during their first RSV season and for children up to 24 months of age who remain vulnerable to severe RSV ...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of children’s pulmonary infections. However, there are fewer studies on RSV infections in adults. The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical manifestations, para-clinical characteristics, and outcome of RSV infection among adult pa...
young children, and older adults, with chronic medical conditions, at risk for more severe disease. Annually, RSV leads to approximately 58,000 hospitalizations with 100-500 deaths among children younger than 5 years old and 177,000 hospitalizations with 14,000 deaths among adults, a...
RSV-specific hospitalisations in older adults were scaled up to account for under-ascertainment (see Additional file 1). In addition to vaccinating older adults, we assumed that all infants aged months 1–5 were given Nirsevimab. The older adult strategies were thus compared to the infant ...