However, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, or other complications of rhinovirus infection may require medication and monitoring. Intermountain Healthcare is a Utah-based, not-for-profit system of 24 hospitals includes "virtual" hospital , a Medical Group with more than 2, physicians and advanced practice clinicians at about clinics, a health plans division called SelectHealth, and other health services.
Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in clinical quality improvement and efficient healthcare delivery. Which should I choose? Authors Topics. Intermountain Healthcare Sep 13, How it Spreads Rhinovirus spreads easily from one person to another.
Diagnosis and Treatment Providers usually diagnose rhinovirus by taking a medical history and doing a physical exam. Illness usually starts with a runny nose, sore throat, and sneezing and may go on to include headache, cough, and muscle aches. Most rhinovirus infections are mild, but they can sometimes lead to bronchiolitis and pneumonia — especially in babies. Rhinovirus can bring on all of the familiar symptoms of a cold: runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, headache, cough, and body aches.
In some people, it can cause a mild fever, and may also lead to ear infections or sinus infections. In babies and young children, lung problems such as bronchiolitis and pneumonia sometimes develop. Rhinovirus spreads easily from one person to another. And since rhinovirus can live on surfaces for a while, anything that has been touched by the infected person — clothes, toys, utensils, furniture — can also transmit the virus. Providers usually diagnose rhinovirus by taking a medical history and doing a physical exam.
If illness is severe, the provider may choose to verify the diagnosis by testing a sample of mucus. Your child might touch the hands or skin of another child or toys that have the virus on it and then touch her own eyes or nose, infecting herself. She might also breathe in viruses that are in the air when a sick child sneezes or coughs.
Even though your child can get a cold at any time of the year, these infections are most common during the fall and spring. Most people know the signs and symptoms of the common cold. Your child's cold may start with a watery, runny nose that looks like a clear liquid.
Later, the discharge becomes thicker and is often a brownish, gray, or greenish color. These colors are normal to see as the child begins to get better from a cold. In some children, you may see pus whitish mucus on the tonsils, which could be a sign of a type of infection caused by a bacteria Streptococcus. Usually a child who has a rhinovirus infection won't have any signs or symptoms for the first 2 to 3 days. Once the symptoms start, they usually last for 10 to 14 days, but sometimes the child will get better faster than that.
When your child has a cold, make sure he or she gets enough rest and drinks extra fluid if he or she has a fever. If your child is uncomfortable, talk to his or her doctor about giving acetaminophen to lower the fever. Don't give over-the-counter cold and cough medicines without first checking with your doctor.
Over-the-counter medicines do not kill the virus and, most of the time, will not help your child feel better. If your baby is 3 months or younger and gets cold symptoms, talk with your child's doctor.
Young children are more likely to get sicker from colds, including getting pneumonia or bronchiolitis. Older children usually don't need to be seen by a doctor when they have a cold.
You can tell your child has a cold based on watching his or her symptoms. Anti-rhinovirus drug development is also moving forward. Although there are over rhinovirus serotypes, it has been found that most rhinoviruses attach to a single cell receptor by a single binding site on the virus. Also, the structure of the rhinovirus capsid is now known at the atomic level.
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