Is neonatal pneumonia serious?

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Neonatal pneumonia is the most common respiratory tract infection in the neonatal period. It is easy to cause respiratory failure, heart failure, sepsis and even death. We must not take it lightly. So, what are the symptoms of neonatal pneumonia? How to judge? I'd like to share my views with you.

Is neonatal pneumonia serious?

Neonatal pneumonia is a common respiratory infection. Early symptoms mainly include the following symptoms: mouth Zhou Fazi, mouth foaming, breathing fast, nasal alar fan, loss of appetite, easy to choke milk, low spirits, irritability and so on. It's different from the symptoms of a cold.

When it comes to severe pneumonia, the symptoms are much more severe. Shortness of breath, about 80 times per minute or more. The wings of the nose flapped. There is a very obvious feature, is the three concave disease, inspiratory children's sternal fossa, intercostal space, xiphoid depression.

Severe pneumonia, groaning on exhalation, obvious purple on face and extremities, pale, bloodless, or cyan gray. Irregular breathing and even apnea. When the doctor goes to listen to the chest sound, there will be a dense fine moist rale.

matters needing attention

Take care of children carefully and patiently. First of all, it is necessary to prevent hypoxia in the uterus of the fetus. The mother needs to do prenatal examination, which is necessary at the end of pregnancy. In the event of fetal hypoxia, timely treatment measures should be taken to reduce the severity of the disease. The living space after birth should be clean and comfortable, and the lactation products should be disinfected.