Acute Respiratory Infection

ARI is an acronym for Acute Respiratory Infection, the term is adapted from the term in English Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI). Acute infectious disease that attacks one or more of the parts and starting from the nasal airway (upper line) to the alveoli (lower line) including adneksanya networks such as the sinuses, middle ear cavity and the pleura. Respiratory disease is a disease that often occurs in children, because children's immune system is still low. Genesis psenyakit cough in infants in Indonesia is estimated to 3 to 6 times per year, which means an average toddler had suffered a cough and cold as much as 3 to 6 times a year. The term encompasses three elements namely ARI infections, and acute respiratory tract, where its understanding as follows: sneezing
1. Infection
Is the entry of germs or microorganisms into the human body and multiply, causing symptoms of the disease.
2. Respiratory tract
Is the organ from its nose to the alveoli adneksanya organs such as the sinuses, middle ear cavity and the pleura.
3. Acute Infection
Infection is a direct up to 14 days. limit of 14 days was taken to indicate an acute process although for some diseases that can be classified in the ARD process can last more than 14 days.
ARI anatomically include upper respiratory tract, lower respiratory tract (including the lung tissue - lung) respiratory tract and adnexal organs. with this limitation, lung tissue included in the respiratory tract (respiratory tract). The majority of respiratory tract infections just be mild such as cough and cold and does not require treatment with antibiotics, however, the child will suffer pneumonia when lung infection is not treated with antibiotics resulted in death. Disease Eradication Program (P2) divides ARI ARI disease in two groups, namely:
* Non-pneumonia ARI: community known by the term cough and cold
* Pneumonia: cough and cold when accompanied by other symptoms such as difficulty breathing, increased frequency of breathing (rapid breathing).
Respiratory tract from nose to bronchi lined by ciliated mucous membrane, the incoming air through the nasal cavity is filtered, warmed and humidified. Coarse dust particles can be filtered by the hairs found in the nose, while the fine dust particles will be trapped in the mucous layer. Movement of cilia push the mucosal lining of the nasal cavity and posterior to the superior direction toward the pharynx.
In general, the effects of air pollution on the respiratory tract can cause nasal cilia movement becomes slow and stiff can even stop so it can not clean the respiratory tract irritation caused by pollutants. Mucus production will increase, causing narrowing of the airways and destruction of bacteria-killing cells in the respiratory tract. As a result of this will cause difficulty in breathing that attracted foreign object and other bacteria can not be expelled from the respiratory tract, this will facilitate the occurrence of respiratory tract infections.
According to WHO, the secretion of mucus or cold symptoms also occur in diseases caused by common cold virus infection groups or types of rhinovirus and coronavirus. This disease can be accompanied by fever in children for several hours to three days. While air pollution is suspected to be the originator of viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. ARI can be transmitted through saliva, blood, sneezing, breathing air containing germs are inhaled by healthy people kesaluran breathing.