Symptoms of recurrent fever in children with pneumonia

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According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, about 1 million children under 5 years old die of pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis caused by pneumococci every year, which is one of the most important causes of death in this age group. Children's pneumonia repeated fever symptoms to tell you.

Symptoms of recurrent fever in children with pneumonia

At the same time, the high disability rate of meningitis, otitis media and other diseases caused by pneumococcus has brought serious damage to children's physical and mental health. At the same time, the relevant survey shows that nearly 80% of the public do not know what "pneumococci" is, and another 60% of the public do not know that children under 5 years old are at high risk of pneumococci.

Recently, the temperature is changeable, so there are many babies with cold and fever. Many parents believe that the baby must burn for a few days to become pneumonia. In fact, this idea is wrong. Because some baby fever only two days has developed into pneumonia, and some baby fever a week is not caused by pneumonia. At the same time, parents should also be alert to children with pneumonia without fever. Not all children with pneumonia will have fever, especially if the newborn or children with low immune function suffer from pneumonia, they may not have symptoms of cough or fever. Parents must not ignore it, and they need to combine other aspects to judge.

Generally speaking, children with pneumonia have severe cough, some show dry cough, some cough with phlegm. Moreover, most of the children have anorexia, drowsiness and poor mental state. Some children have gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Severe children may have symptoms such as shortness of breath, flapping of nasal wings and depression of sternum. If the above conditions occur, the children should be sent to the hospital immediately for diagnosis and timely treatment.

matters needing attention

Should pay attention to eat less and more meals, food should be easy to digest and nutritious. When you have a fever, encourage your child to drink more water. Pneumonia children due to weakened digestive function, sometimes eating because of shortness of breath will affect breathing, aggravated breathing due to difficulty, therefore, children with pneumonia do not reluctantly feeding. In order to avoid choking into the esophagus, the baby's upper body should be raised when eating and taking medicine.