Pretrachoma

Precancerous diseases in children: trachoma

*Relevance. Trachoma is an infectious-inflammatory disease characterized by the occurrence of a productive inflammatory reaction – follicular hyperplasia of the superficial layers of the conjunctiva, leading to partial loss of vision. The massive spread of infection throughout the world required the creation of certain preventive measures and the development of various programs, including government ones. Depending on the geographic location of the spread of infection, the average rate of disease progression is noted.*

**Introduction.** It is known that in addition to inflammatory diseases of the respiratory, digestive and urinary systems, the most common place for which is the periphery, around childhood. Unfortunately, many months of retellings of situations “from the life of Cinderella” convince us that the list of child illnesses is actually quite wide. This cannot continue indefinitely; in the end, both the child and his family suffer. As noted, many acute infectious diseases take a protracted course, and a significant number of them occur with a chronic process. The presence of chronic infections in patients leads to a decrease in general immunity, and allows new viral diseases to actively develop. There are no children in any country in the world, in any locality, who have never suffered from acute respiratory infections, a virus