Acute respiratory infection: separating the wheat from the chaff
In the framework of the XXI Congress of Pediatricians of Russia with international participation «Actual problems of pediatrics», held in early 2019, an interdisciplinary symposium on modern principles of treatment of children with acute respiratory diseases took place. In their reports, foreign and Russian experts highlighted the most discussed topics of pediatrics: the choice and application of immunostimulating therapy in the management of children with recurrent infections, the tactics of cough treatment in children, the impact of antibiotic therapy on microbiome and rational approaches to antibiotic therapy in childhood.