Abstract:
Nowadays a serious individual and collective traumatization is observed for the population of Ukraine under the full-scale Russian military aggression and it negatively affects public health, especially children's health. Acute respiratory viral infection (ARI) is at the highest level of relevance, as it accounts for 90% of all infectious diseases. Children of preschool and primary school age get ARI on average 6-7 times a year and 28-30% of hospitalization rate in general pediatric hospitals. In 30-40% of those hospitalized patients with ARI at preschool and primary school age, pronounced premorbid conditions such as acetonemic syndrome, anemia, minor anomalies of heart development, minor brain dysfunction, impaired physical development, asthenic syndrome as consequences of the stress caused by the war are seen. This category of patients has its own limitations regarding the use of many protocol drugs, namely: antipyretics, analgesics, topical decongestants, as well as drugs to thin sputum. But the modern strategy of their treatment requires minimizing the use of chemical preparations, thus it is essential to stimulate a local immune protection, which would increase the level of interferon, lysozyme and immunoglobulins.
