What symptom is infantile pneumonia?
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To judge whether the child is suffering from pneumonia, it is necessary to see whether the child has cough, wheezing and dyspnea. Cough and asthma caused by cold and bronchitis are paroxysmal, and dyspnea generally does not occur. What symptom is infantile pneumonia? Let's talk about it.
What symptom is infantile pneumonia?
When febrile children suffer from pneumonia, most of them have fever symptoms. Their body temperature is above 38 ℃ for two or three days. Antipyretic drugs can only make their body temperature drop for a while, and then rise again soon. Although children's colds can also cause fever, their body temperature is mostly below 38 ℃ and the duration is short. The effect of antipyretic drugs is also obvious. But at the same time, we should also be alert to children with pneumonia without fever. The temperature of the baby with pneumonia may be very high, but it may not have fever, or even lower than normal. The duration of fever can not be used as a basis for judging pneumonia. Some baby fever only two days has developed into pneumonia, and some baby fever a week is not caused by pneumonia. Therefore, it is impossible to judge whether the child has pneumonia from fever, but it needs to be combined with other aspects.
Second, to judge whether the child is suffering from pneumonia, it is necessary to see whether the child has cough, asthma and dyspnea. Cough and asthma caused by cold and bronchitis are paroxysmal, and dyspnea generally does not occur. If the cough and asthma are serious, the respiratory rate increases at rest (i.e. the respiratory rate of infants less than 2 months old is more than or equal to 60 times / min; Infants aged 2-12 months ≥ 50 times / min; Children aged 1-5 years old (≥ 40 times / min), one by one on both sides of the nose, lips blue or purple, once the above symptoms appear, it indicates that the condition is serious and can not be delayed. More than 50% of the pathogens of viral pneumonia are respiratory syncytial virus, which accounts for one third of the total number of hospitalized children with pneumonia. It usually occurs in winter and spring. The most typical age of onset is 6 months to 3 years old. These children often have acute onset, first have "cold" symptoms, lasting for about 3 days, showing low fever (measuring body temperature at about 38 ℃), clear nose, cough, about 60% of the children may not have fever. 2-3 days later, the cough worsened, breathing fast and superficial, up to 60-100 times per minute. The most prominent symptoms are wheezing, suffocation, and prolonged exhalation. Sometimes the wheezing sound does not need to use a stethoscope. It can be heard as long as it is close to the child, and the child is very painful. Lobar pneumonia refers to inflammation and complete consolidation of one or more lobes of the lung. The pathogen is Streptococcus pneumoniae. Bacterial pneumonia accounts for about 10% - 30% of the total pneumonia in children. After catching cold, typical patients showed cold, high fever, chest pain, cough, spitting iron rust colored sputum, dyspnea, face and lips cyanosis.
Third, in order to discover children's pneumonia in time, careful mothers should also pay attention to children's mental state. If the child is in a good mood, can play and loves to laugh while having a fever, coughing and wheezing, the possibility of suffering from pneumonia is very small. On the contrary, the child's poor mental state, blue lips, irritability, crying or sleeping, wind, a small number of children may appear delirium, which means that the child is more seriously ill, more likely to get pneumonia. In the early stage of pneumonia, the child may not have obvious mental changes, or may not be in a good mental state.
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At the same time, carefully observe whether the child has chest depression (when breathing in, both sides of the rib edge collapse with breathing ups and downs). If this happens, you need to send the child to the hospital immediately for diagnosis, so that timely treatment.
