MEDICAL AND SOCIAL MONITORING OF INCIDENCE RATE OF ACUTE BRONCHITIS AND PNEUMONIA IN CHILDERN (BASED ON DATA FROM MICROBIOLOGICAL LABORATORY OF THE CITY OF HLUKHIV, SUMY REGION)

Abstract

The article emphasizes on medical and social monitoring of the incidence of acute bronchitis and pneumonia in children and elucidates the peculiarities of the course of these diseases during the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been established that the main cause of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI), including pneumonia and bronchitis, and other respiratory diseases, is an impairment of the mechanisms of specific and non-specific protection. In terms of prevalence, bronchitis and pneumonia occupy the first place among broncho-pulmonary diseases in children. Recurrent bronchitis occurs in children of different ages, but most often in the childhood period from 4 to 7 years. The highest number of hospitalized children with acute bronchitis and pneumonia was observed in the city of Hlukhiv and the Hlukhiv district, Sumy region, in 2019; the number of boys significantly exceeded the number of girls. The main cause for the decrease in the incidence and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children is still remaining unclear. Although this decrease in incidence was attributed to reduced exposure and risk factors during the initial phase of a pandemic, it is now understood that biological factors that interfere with the pathogenesis of infection and the immune response may play a protective role in children compared to the more aggressive clinical manifestations seen in adults. The data obtained demonstrate the patients with acute bronchitis have different numbers of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Some patients, 43 out of 64, have normal ESR values, within 4-12 mm / h (p <0.05). With an exacerbation of the process, an increase in ESR is noted in the range of 12-14 mm / h in 21 patients. We have found out acute pneumonia in children is associated with complex changes in blood parameters, and, in particularly, with neutrophilic leukocytosis, increased hemoglobin up to 170 ± 1.4 g / l, an accelerated ESR, a significant increase in platelets. The positive effect of physiotherapy exercises and massage can also improve the parameters of the peripheral blood in the children. Thus, these supportive measures maintain the general mechanisms of homeostasis.