The arrival of cold weather leads to an increase in flu and paraflu cases in adults and children. Cold, cough, sore throat, bronchiolitis they are all caused by some viral agents that proliferate in these seasons when we find ourselves indoors. Viruses that are transmitted by breathing or through contaminated hands.
Last year or so 15 million Italians they had the flu or various paraflu syndromes and a third were children and teenagers. In the 2023-24 period theBambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome recorded 13 thousand visits to the emergency room for respiratory infections with 1500 hospitalizations of which 100 ended up in intensive care. Depending on the pathology there are different peaksinfluenza has a peak of cases between December and February, bronchiolitis caused by the respiratory syncytial virus occurs between November and March, while other parainfluenza viruses strike between spring and summer.
