Issue: 2016, Vol. 21, No. 4
ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASES IN SCHOOLCHILDREN: PECULIARITIES OF THEIR COURSE AND RECURRENCE IN DEPENDENCE ON CONSTITUTIONAL TYPE
- Keywords
- constitutional approach, acute respiratory diseases, individual approach, children
- Abstarct
- Objective - to reveal the features of course and recurrence of acute respiratory diseases in schoolchildren of different constitutional types. Material and methods. 729 children aged 7-17 years were examined within the frames of constitutional approach which stipulated the definition of psychic activity direction. Number of acute respiratory diseases annually, course peculiarities of acute respiratory diseases and their complications, features of vegetative disorders in acute respiratory diseases, formation of frequent respiratory morbidity were analyzed statistically. Results . Number of acute morbidity and presence of complications per one child annually were statistically higher in introverts and extraverts in comparison with centroverts. Part of the children with frequent diseases was statistically more in introvert group. Duration of acute respiratory disease more than 10 days, more lingering restorative period, rhinitis, pharyngitis and bronchitis with obstructive component were proved to be the character features for introverts. Higher temperature, episodes of febrile convulsions, prevalence of tonsillitis, laryngitis and otitis were observed in extraverts. Conclusions . Constitutional type determined the inclination to definite diseases, peculiarities of their course, severity and onset terms. In this case the stressed acuteness on constitutional peculiarities which led to complaints and clinical signs of vegetative dysregulation appearance was proved to be the sign which distinguished normal individual variant and pathological process.