Identification of fingertip blood sampling of bacterial infection or a virus infection

Fingertip blood identifiable bacterial infection or a virus infectionin children with pediatric hospital in the cold at the moment get together still exists, ask parents of children with foreign children is sampled from the nasal cavity to the cold, most of the local hospital was blood collecting and fingertips, is there a difference? In fact, after treatment in children with colds and other respiratory diseases best first blood collection to identify is a bacterial infection or a virus infection. Currently checks for children with respiratory tract diseases, mainly in blood tests and rapid diagnosis of respiratory viruses. Former General by collecting fingertip blood testing, which is from the nasal cavity, pharynx in children with samples for testing. Compare the two, blood testing is relatively coarse check, mainly look at the body's white blood cells in children with no increase in preliminary judging is a bacterial infection or a virus infection in children. In General, if the patient is a bacterial infection, the white blood cells, neutrophils in the blood will increase. If the white blood cell indices are not high, or opened that could potentially be a virus infection in children with infection of Mycoplasma and chlamydia infection. But blood tests cannot specifically determine which children with bacterial or viral infection. By contrast, rapid diagnosis of virus is specific to identify what kind of virus infection in children with means of detection, mainly against viruses, is also currently one of the principal means of detection of influenza virus. But the rapid diagnosis of virus costs more, such as for influenza virus testing cost will be around $ 300. In General, the respiratory outpatient patients do not need to do this check. Therefore remind parents, preferably according to the child's condition by doctors decide which kinds of testing to do. Subsidiary capital Institute of Pediatrics children's hospital physician respiratory Cao, Ling

See the family health report on December 10, 2009 2nd Edition of the original text "medical guide"