Cytomegalovirus - what is it?This question can be answered as follows. This disease is considered one of the most "young" viral diseases, as it is described and classified relatively recently - in 1956. This infection is widespread among people under the age of 40 years.
Researchers are still studying the diseasecytomegalovirus, what it is and how to treat it, which often causes disagreement in the medical environment about effective methods. Modern medicine claims that the presence of infection in the body - this is not an excuse to begin therapy. If there are no complaints about the functioning of the immune system and the pronounced symptoms of the disease, then do not worry if you have antibodies to cytomegalovirus. It should be noted that this virus can not be completely eliminated from the body.
In fact, cytomegalovirus isa relative of herpes simplex, as he is a member of the herpesvirus family. This can also include infectious mononucleosis and chicken pox. It is found in the blood, saliva, sperm, urine, vaginal mucus and even in the tears of a person. Therefore, in close contact with these biological fluids, infection occurs. But as the tears of another person get into the body extremely rarely, then the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact or a kiss. Please note that, despite its wide spread, cytomegalovirus does not belong to very infectious infections. To get infected, you need to mix your fluids with the fluids of the carrier of the virus for a long time. To children, this disease is transmitted through the mother's breast milk, as the virus lives in this kind of biological fluid.
Symptoms of cytomegalovirus are similar in many ways tomanifestations of an ordinary cold disease, for this reason it is difficult for doctors to immediately detect a virus in the human body. In addition, cytomegalovirus can for a long time not give any symptoms and manifest only during the period of exacerbation.
The greatest danger is in thethe period of pregnancy, so doctors recommend that all women who carry a child test themselves for infection. In medicine, there is only one reliable way to determine a virus - it's an analysis for the presence of antibodies.
The result is "cytomegalovirus negative"means that a person has not previously been infected, and therefore he is particularly prone to primary infection. The presence of antibodies is not an occasion to sound an alarm, since this may indicate not only the primary infection, but also the past illness. Treatment is necessary in the case when the number of antibodies increases approximately four times. This means that the virus entered the active phase and the body began to fight it.
Cytomegalovirus (what is it, it is told above)occurs in both children and adults. But it is worth noting that children infected in the womb are diagnosed as "carriers of congenital cytomegalovirus infection." But in many cases this means absolutely nothing, since the disease may not manifest itself throughout life. In rare cases, there are temporary symptoms, such as damage to the liver, lungs, spleen. But, as a rule, the child's organism can easily cope with them and does not feel any consequences of the transferred disease.
But there are more serious consequences of the disease -impaired coordination, problems with vision and hearing. Therefore, all babies with congenital cytomegalovirus should be observed for the development of vision and hearing organs, regardless of whether they have any symptoms of the disease. If in the first years of life abnormalities in the development of these organs were found, then treatment of cytomegalovirus should be started.
