Perinatal Nursing & Adolescent Psychiatry

Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Allergy and Infectious diseases is the subject that deals with applied research for better understanding to treat infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases. The common chronic allergic illness in children is asthma. It may be caused due to dust or environmental pollutants. Infectious diseases are caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Patients may get infected from affected individuals or from animals. Pneumonia is caused by a virus called influenza virus or adenovirus, where the patient air ways are inflamed by deposition of fluid. Children are more susceptible to diseases and allergies as they are having poor knowledge about health and related diseases and cannot maintain hygienic conditions for themselves.