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Roseola medical therapy
Introduction
Overview
Overview
There is no treatment for roseola, it is a self limiting disease that resolves on its own without any medical intervention but antipyretics can be used as a supportive therapy in cases of high fever.[1]
Medical therapy
Medical therapy
The mainstay of therapy for roseola is supportive as HHV 6 typically causes a benign, self limited illness in infants and antiviral therapy is not indicated.
- Supportive therapy for roseola includes antipyretics such as acetaminophen if associated with discomfort.
- Intravenous foscarnet and ganciclovir are proposed as first line treatment for HHV 6 encephalitis for 3 to 4 weeks.
References
References
- ↑ Agut H, Bonnafous P, Gautheret-Dejean A (2015). “Laboratory and clinical aspects of human herpesvirus 6 infections”. Clin Microbiol Rev. 28 (2): 313–35. doi:10.1128/CMR.00122-14. PMC 4402955. PMID 25762531.
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