Respiratory syncytial virus is a typical "soft" virus that mainly infects children under 5 years old, especially children under 2 years old.
When children are infected, they first experience fever, irritating cough, sore throat, loss of appetite, and in some cases, digestive symptoms such as abdominal pain or diarrhea.
If the child's resistance is weak, it can easily develop into capillary bronchitis and pneumonia.
It is difficult to make a definitive diagnosis based on clinical manifestations alone, so it is necessary to combine this with appropriate ancillary tests.
The most common and simplest method is the pharyngeal swab virus test.
This means that the doctor uses a special swab to take some secretions from the child's throat, and if the respiratory syncytial virus can be isolated or if antibodies to the respiratory syncytial virus can be detected, the diagnosis is clear.
