What are the symptoms of pneumonia in children?

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Pneumonia, as a very harmful disease, needs comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, which makes us unable to work and study normally and seriously affects people's mood. In the process of treatment, we also need comprehensive nursing and health care, especially diet nursing. Only reasonable diet can improve the patient's body resistance. Let me talk with you today Children pneumonia symptoms under home study?.

What are the symptoms of pneumonia in children?

First, the child has fever, refeeding, irritability, wheezing and other symptoms, early body temperature is 38 ~ 39 ℃, can also be as high as 40 ℃. In addition to respiratory symptoms, children can be accompanied by mental malaise, irritability, loss of appetite, shivering, diarrhea and other systemic symptoms. Refusals, choking milk, vomiting and dyspnea are common in infants.

Second: at the beginning of the frequent irritative dry cough, followed by throat sputum, severe cough can be accompanied by vomiting, choking milk. The respiratory surface is shallow, the nasal alar is agitated, and some children may have mild cyanosis around the mouth and fingernails. Pulmonary signs may not be obvious in the early stage, and small and medium blisters can be heard later. When combined with pleural effusion, percussion sound and / or respiratory sound disappeared.

Third: infantile pneumonia is often accompanied by cardiac insufficiency. Congestive heart failure should be considered if the heart rate increases to 160-200 beats / min, the liver enlarges or obviously enlarges in a short time, the complexion is pale, the mouth is cyanotic, the limbs are edematous and the urine is little.

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This article introduces the symptoms of infantile pneumonia for all patients. After reading this article, we should know the symptoms of infantile pneumonia. Drinking more water is conducive to the discharge of sputum and the normal operation of the body. Therefore, mothers should encourage their children to drink more water, help and guide their parents to pat their children on the back and turn over to promote the discharge of sputum. And, try to breastfeed, if artificial feeding can be based on its digestive function and disease to determine the amount and concentration of milk, such as diarrhea to give skimmed milk, for young children or children should supply light, easy to digest, rich in vitamins diet, convalescent children should give rich nutrition, high calorie food. For the critically ill children who can not eat, give intravenous infusion to supplement heat and water.