ENGLISH VERSION

INFECTION OR ALLERGY?

Dr. Guillermo Fco. Rosales Magallanes 

Infectous Diseases Pediatrician

You done this question infinity of times, nevertheless you come to look for diverse medical impressions and ever nobody has spoken to you brings over of this, you end rejecting it, but you must know which is the normal behavior of a child and under this premise to depart in the search what might be affecting your son, we invite you that you discover across this article if it is a question of an infectious event or is an allergy.

The allergy is not an exclusive event of certain group of age and it is important that you understand this since there are patients of 1 month of age that it accuses them of being carriers of respiratory infections many pediatricians they say to the dads that his children have bronchiolitis, the patient ends almost hospitalized for having cough and abundant snot in his nose giving them schemes of complex antibiotics and to nobody it happened to him to think that this patient has ALLERGY TO THE PROTEIN OF THE MILK.

To this point you were starting feeling probably identified and if they have said to you that your baby has or has had again and again "bronchiolitis" and your already you feel very related to this term I invite you to that you start making question, for that great people wonder that has to see a picture of cough with food allergy? It has to see everything, remember that the allergic patient is as if you stop in a mountain of snow with a grain of rice and push it, it turns into a ball of enormous snow that does devastations in the life of the patient and to any world one forgets him that inside this ball there is a " grain of rice " now you me understand?

The allergic patient leaves completely of the habitual behavior of the average patient, of which it is not allergic and presents a clinical picture that can simulate an infection, but this infection does not correspond clinical with any other infection described in the medical literature, that is to say, it starts sneezing and abundant snot and continues with a cough that is persistent during the following two weeks, which it was a torture for the parents for whom to this date at least already 3 pediatricians visited and two of them already gave to them antibiotics this is not an infection. An infection begins and in the following ones 72 hs (3 days) it auto-limits itself. About this we are speaking.

The prop of the treatment always is the change of milk, remember that to have a baby with probable allergy is like a " act of faith " since there are no studies that him could realize that it defines if it is a question or not of an allergy until it is evaluated by the expert who is Alergologist pediatrician, we invite you to read more on the topic.

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