What symptom is diphtheria?

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Baby has been six years old this year, at about 17 pm last week, suddenly appeared repeated cough, expectoration for a week, aggravated with chest tightness, shortness of breath for a day. Admission diagnosis: 1. Cardiac insufficiency, myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy; 2. Treatment of acute respiratory tract infection: after admission, the relevant examination was improved, the diagnosis was made clear, the cardiac load was reduced, the tube was dilated, and anti ischemia was given. The doctor said that this is suffering from a disease of diphtheria, and no one in our family has ever had this disease. What are the symptoms of diphtheria? Let's talk about it.

What symptom is diphtheria?

During the onset of the disease, patients will first have mild fever, and flat tonsils will be red and swollen. After a few days, the symptoms will disappear naturally. It is easy to be misdiagnosed as acute tonsillitis. It is suggested that more attention should be paid to the epidemic stage of diphtheria.

Until the middle stage of the disease, the patient will begin to have nausea, pain and moderate fever. During this period, the tonsils will appear obvious redness and swelling, and obvious large white pseudomembrane can be found in the tonsils, which can cause a small amount of bleeding.

When the disease develops to a serious stage, the signs of throat edema of patients will increase significantly, and the mouth can be accompanied by obvious odor, and even lymphadenitis, at the same time, there is serous bloody nasal discharge, later turned to thick purulent nasal discharge, sometimes mixed with epistaxis, often unilateral and so on.

matters needing attention

It is suggested that people should develop a good attitude in their daily life to avoid excessive mental tension and pressure. At the same time, appropriate increase of physical exercise, reasonable with healthy diet. Can be away from the harm of disease.