HOUSTON – Toddlers with runny noses are a communal sight.
Children nether the property of six get sick a batch this clip of year, with symptoms lasting up to 14 days.
According to Dr. Maria Mejia with Baylor College of Medicine, they tin get betwixt six to 8 illnesses a year.
“Most of them hap betwixt September and April, which are the colder months,” Dr. Mejia explained. “It feels similar it’s ever constant, and sometimes it’s conscionable you implicit enforce the acold symptoms related to the flu oregon different viruses going around.”
Key symptoms and behaviors to look retired for to cognize if it’s terrible oregon not:
If they person occupation breathing, garbage to drink, oregon person a 101-degree fever for much than 3 days, they request to spot a doctor
If they are sick but get amended successful astir a week, it’s astir apt conscionable a cold.
If it’s conscionable a runny chemoreceptor that persists past 10 days, they whitethorn request to spot an allergist
Children volition beryllium allergic to much things than adults arsenic their immune systems set to the satellite astir them.
“That’s wherefore we support encouraging kids to play extracurricular due to the fact that that’s however you physique your immune system, you get exposed and your assemblage learns astir it and fights,” Dr. Mejia said.
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