Acute and Recurrent Respiratory Tract Infections: Possible Reduction of the Patient’s Pill Burden

Abstract

Acute and recurrent respiratory tract infections in children are often the reason for seeking medical help. Frequent and prolonged respiratory infections in childhood may lead to the subsequent formation of chronic respiratory diseases in adults. Susceptibility to respiratory infections is common in children with allergic diseases and other chronic diseases accompanied by a decrease in immune reactivity. In the case of acute respiratory infection, these patients, in addition to the basic treatment of the underlying disease, have to take additional cough medicines that increase the pill burden on the body. The main causative agents of acute respiratory infections are viruses. Inosine pranobex is a drug with antiviral and immunomodulatory effects. The article describes the pharmacological properties and the results from studying the efficacy of inosine pranobex in the treatment of acute respiratory viral infections in children.

Keywords

• acute respiratory infections
• viruses
• immune response
• antiviral drugs
• inosine pranobex