Children who often are ill, make considerable percent of all sick children which are under supervision of children's polyclinics, and are a serious problem of practical pediatrics. Frequent disease leads to decrease in indicators of health, a delay of intellectual and physical development, formation of a chronic pathology, impossibility of a reconstruction of healthy descendants. Besides, it creates pressure in a family, problems for parents, reduction of social activity of a family. Very often pediatrists, having examined the child, to the basic diagnosis of disease add - the child from group of often ill children. In the medical statistics there is such term, as the general disease of children. And so, 45-55 % from all disease are made by children whom it is frequent and is long are ill. It, as a rule, kids with the lowered immunity at which the respiratory pathology becomes complicated bacterial diseases.
At definition of group of children which it is frequent and it is long are ill, are considered, basically, cases of sharp respiratory diseases which repeat throughout a year, and aggravations of chronic inflammatory diseases of LOR-BODIES which arise against ORVI.
This group includes children, depending on age and frequency of repetitions of episodes of a respiratory infection: till 2-3 years - 6 and more diseases in a year; 4 years - 5 diseases; 5-6 years - 4 diseases; 7-8 years and seniors - 3 and more diseases ORVI in a year. Children with a chronic pneumonia, a bronchial asthma to this group do not concern - them allocate in special dispansernye groups with bronholegochnoj a pathology.