Symptoms of Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis

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Among the pathogenic mycoplasma, Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumonia is also known as primary atypical pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumonia can occur throughout the year, especially in winter. Mycoplasma encephalitis is a common pneumonia in preschool children and young people. Mycoplasma pneumonia is mainly transmitted by droplets, with a long incubation period, up to 2-3 weeks. Although the course of mycoplasma pneumonia is longer, the lung lesions are more serious, and the absorption of inflammation is slower, most of the prognosis is good, and the complications are less. The symptom of Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis tells everybody.

Symptoms of Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis

The onset was slow, most of them were pharyngitis and bronchitis, 10% were pneumonia. The main symptoms are shivering, fever, fatigue, headache, discomfort, irritative dry cough, accompanied by sticky sputum, purulent sputum, and even bloody sputum. In severe cases, there may be shortness of breath and chest pain during severe cough; It can also have nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and joint pain, myocarditis, pericarditis, hepatitis, peripheral neuritis, meningitis, skin spot papules and other extrapulmonary manifestations.

Congestion and edema of nasopharynx and conjunctiva, enlargement of cervical lymph nodes and skin rash may occur; Chest signs are not obvious, pulmonary auscultation may have fine moist rales, occasionally pleural frications and pleural effusion sign. X-ray showed that the lung lesions were patchy or confluent. Bronchopneumonia or interstitial. Pneumonia with acute bronchitis. There may be a small amount of exudate in alveoli, focal atelectasis, pulmonary consolidation and emphysema. Neutrophils and large monocytes infiltrated into the alveolar wall and septum.

In some older patients, there are often no positive signs in the lung during the whole course of the disease. In a few patients, they will appear only in one week. The main lung signs are audible wheezing, dry and wet rales, pleural friction, and in some patients in the late stage, skin spots, papules, erythema multiforme, and erythema nodosum will appear.

matters needing attention

Keep the indoor air fresh, supply digestible and nutritious food and enough liquid. Keep oral hygiene and respiratory tract unobstructed, often turn over, pat back, change body position, promote secretion discharge, if necessary, appropriate sputum suction, remove viscous secretion. We should have more rest. For patients with mycoplasma pneumonia, the best room temperature is 18-20 ℃, while maintaining 60% air humidity, in order to prevent respiratory secretions from becoming dry and difficult to cough up. Also pay attention to do some nutritious and easy to digest food, and should be a small number of meals, encourage patients to drink more. Do not spit everywhere, to prevent bacteria from polluting the air and infecting others. Easy to suffer from respiratory tract infection patients in the cold season or climate change, go out, pay attention to add clothes, in order to prevent cold.