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People's Daily Online, Beijing, December 17 (Reporter Qiao Yeqiong) Today, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter and answer questions from reporters.
At the meeting, focusing on the prolongation of the course of respiratory tract infections in some children, Lu Gen, director of the respiratory department of Guangzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Guangdong Province, said that it is necessary to look at the specific situation.
Lugan said that if it is an influenza virus infection, it is mostly an acute course, most of the symptoms will disappear in 3-5 days, and the vast majority of the course of the disease will recover within a week. If it is mycoplasma infection, in fact, most of it is still a self-limited course, and even if it causes pneumonia, the vast majority of it is mild, and only a very small number will develop into severe disease. After the severe and mild diseases are standardized**, the recovery is generally very good, and will not cause serious sequelae or irreversible damage to the lungs.
Mycoplasma infection has a relatively long course of illness, usually 2 to 4 weeks. At present, some children have influenza, mycoplasma, adenovirus or respiratory syncytial virus and other successive or superimposed infections, which is also the reason for the prolongation of the course of respiratory infections. Lugan said.