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Hi all!
Most parents knows that 2-3-year-old (especially active )children are often ill with ARD (acute respiratory disease).
Have you and your children ever taken immunomodulators(medicine to restoring defence mechanism of an organism) for ARD treating and preventing?
What was the result?

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Wow, I never heard such term, but our very active almost 3-year-old son might be actually ill as well. I have read the decease description but it was quite scary. What are the symptoms you saw?

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I'm not good at medicine terms, but I've just meaned such illness as simple cold, pharyngitis, quinsy, tracheitis, laryngitis

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I'm not good at medicine terms, but I've just meant such illness as pharyngitis, quinsy, tracheitis, laryngitis with cold, cough, high temperature under joint name ARD.

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Oh, I see now! Then it's something we are familiar with as well Probably everybody is. Our doctor thinks the same as we do about natural healthy lifestyle, so we are following it as far as we can and fortunately cold is very rare for us. But of course sometimes it happens for us to breathe in or eat a virus. Then we usually don't give any meds while body temperature is below 39 - only Gripp-Heel, which our doctor advises and which is actually stimulates immune system. I heard also about Aflubin but we never used it so far. Gripp-Heel has very mild effect and it seems to be quite safe even for small kids. What is your experience with it?

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To my mind mostly all 2-3-year-old children have ARD, but I'm not a great expert in this field, so you'd better consult a doctor.

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I also think that a healthy lifestyle is the best prevention of disease and try not give the child unnecessary medication. Really, children get sick more often than adults because their immune system is training. However, there are often flu epidemic during the cold season in kindergartens and schools.
For example, many children from our kindergarten had flu this winter. Some of them had it easily, and some had temperature above 40°C for a week. What should we do? We can vaccinate, but the influenza virus constantly mutates, and the vaccine may be of another type of virus.
We can take medicines like Gripp-Heel or interferon or other immunomodulators in addition, but will they be effective in this case? These medicines are safe, but also have an unproven effectiveness. We should also remember that pharmaceutics is a big business today.
Eventually you can do nothing (as we did ). My 3-year-old son had flu 3 times this winter. So I’m asking, is it possible to avoid it?

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What I can say from my own experience when I was a child, when my sister was little, it is impossible to avoid catching a cold during winter at least once at the preschool age. But you can do something to make your child's health stronger. Healthy food and healthy lifestyle. Swimming is really useful. When I myself went to the swimming pool, I didn't catch a cold at all those years.

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As for immunomodulators, I would think carefully before giving such medicines to my kid. My friend, a practicing family doctor, says that any interference in the immune system is unneeded... when a kid has caught a cold, it is necessary, but not as preventive measures.

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Thanks all of you!
Swimming pool is a good thing when it's located not far from home and it's easy to get there:(
As for immunomodulators, I completly agree with you. We have to train our organism to prepare an own interferon.

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It seems all the recipes are quite well known: let the children have as much activity as they would like - strongly preferably outside, let them wear as little as they would like so that they would never be overheated and finally let them east as much/little as they would like! That is, fairly try to make the child responsible for himself in much bigger way than it's usually done. At least all this works perfectly fine for us and our friends.