Combined Therapy at Persistent Herpes Virus Infection in Sickly Children

Abstract

We examined 40 sickly children with recurrent croup (RC — 28) and bronchial obstruction (ROB — 8), (RC + ROB — 4) aged from 18 months till 14 years. We found that high frequency of persistent herpes viruses usually occurs as associations with CMV, EBV and human herpes virus 6 type. We substantiated anti viral and immune corrective therapy in two schemes compared in efficacy: the 1st group was administered monotherapy with Viferon, and the 2nd group received combined therapy Viferon + Arbidol in doses according to the age during three months. We received a more expressed clinical immunologic effect from the therapy with decreased antigenic load and frequency of recurrence of RC and ROB with Viferon application in suppositories in combination with Arbidol per orally in the intermittent scheme during three months.

Keywords

• ard
• recurrent croup
• recurrent obstructive bronchitis
• persistent herpes infection
• arbidol
• viferon