Cytomegalovirus

Why the cytomegalovirus is considered one of the most artful diseases of the present?

To answer this question, it is necessary to have at least general idea of what represents a cytomegalovirus. Insidiousness of a cytomegalovirus is that, having got into a human body, contagiums remain in it forever, and at the vast majority infected a disease proceeds in the latent form. Respectively, at diagnosis "cytomegalovirus" treatment often begins too late that, in turn, leads to development of inflammatory processes.

Activation of a cytomegalovirus happens because of the strong and long decrease in immunity caused, for example, by pregnancy, AIDS or regular drug intake which influence protective systems of an organism.

Ways of infection

The cytomegalovirus was open in 1956. At the moment it is found in 10-15% of teenagers and in 40% of adults. Such wide circulation is explained by tendency of the activator to a lifelong persistention (preservation) in a human body. At normal immunity causative agents of a cytomegavirus do not constitute danger, but once protective barriers weaken, the cytomegalovirus at children and adults has right there an effect. Pleases only the fact that the infection is hardly transmitted from the person to the person. As a rule, long, close contacts with sick people are necessary for direct infection.

The most widespread ways of infection with a cytomegavirus:

• vozdushno drop – activators get to an organism with saliva at kisses;
• sexual – with sperm or slime of the channel of a neck of uterus;
• transtsplatsentarny – a cytomegalovirus is transferred to a fruit during pre-natal development;
• infection of the newborn is possible during feeding with breast milk;
• the infection can be "brought" during hemotransfusion or transplantation of donor organs.

Symptoms of a cytomegalovirus

Symptoms of a cytomegalovirus appear within 20 - 60 days. Usually the cytomegalovirus begins sharply and proves the following signs:

• fervescence;
• symptoms of the general intoxication;
• vegetovascular frustration;
• general weakness;
• bystry fatigue;
• plentiful salivation;
• development of inflammatory processes in the field of urinogenital bodies.

In the absence of treatment the cytomegalovirus often flows in a generalized form at which multiple defeats of various bodies and systems are observed. At patients with a cytomegalovirus are observed: inflammations of hepatic fabric and spleen, pneumonia, bronchitis, defeats of vessels of a brain and eye, increase in submaxillary glands, skin rash, inflammations of joints. The cytomegalovirus at children and pregnant women is most dangerous. In a children's organism we will talk about development of a cytomegalovirus slightly below. As for future mothers, in their case the infection poses a serious threat for a fruit. The cytomegalovirus is one of the most common causes of not incubation of the child and development of a serious illness in the kid, in particular, of damages of the central nervous system. If at the diagnosis a cytomegalovirus treatment was begun too late, then in 20-30% of cases the fruit perishes even before normal childbirth.

Cytomegalovirus at children

As it was already told above, sick mother can infect the child and during incubation, and after the delivery, having transferred to activators together with breast milk. At an early stage of pregnancy the child, as a rule, dies. Timely carried out analysis on a cytomegalovirus as the immune system of a fruit was not created yet does not help with similar situations even, and activators badly give in to an antibioticotherapia. On late terms children survive, but the cytomegalovirus anyway exerts impact on their full development. Statement of the correct diagnosis is complicated also that if at the kid the cytomegalovirus develops, symptoms of a disease can be absent completely. As a result, symptoms of a cytomegalovirus are found only when activators made irreversible impact on the vital systems and bodies. However, at normal immunity the latent form is smaller of two evils as the hidden carriage is eurysynusic among the population, does not give to the patient any inconvenience and does not do harm to health.

Treatment of a cytomegalovirus

It is necessary to understand at once that the Cytomegaloviral infection is incurable. All drugs existing at the moment allow to control the number of activators in blood, but cannot destroy them completely. For normalization of a condition of the patient doctors use all range of the drugs increasing immunity and means from group of interferon which suppress activity of a virus.