Özet:

Influenza often appears as a self-limiting infection in healthy children; but in many children complications appear. Influenza viruses are spread from person to person, through contact with respiratory secretions (through sneezing, coughing, talking, touching) or by contaminated objects. Generally; transmitted from person to person by air, droplet and contact. Fever rising with chills, headache, myalgia, weakness, loss of appetite, photophobia and cough without sputumare common symptoms. Depending on the influenza infection, complications such as myositis, febrile convulsion, Reye's syndrome, aseptic meningitis, acute cerebellar ataxia, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, myocarditis, pericarditis and hepatitis may develop. In this article, a pediatric patient diagnosed with post-infectious cerebellitis and hepatitis due to influenza A is presented.

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