What are the symptoms of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection?

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a relatively common disease, it is in the season, will be more prone to pneumonia, so the suspended solids in the air will increase a lot, the temperature change is also very severe, especially in the morning, middle and evening temperature change is particularly obvious. So, what are the symptoms of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection? First of all, its onset is relatively slow, the main symptoms are chills, fever, fatigue, headache and discomfort, as well as irritating dry cough, mucus, pus and sputum, and even blood sputum. Also accompanied by nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and joint pain, myocarditis, peripheral neuritis, meningitis, skin spot papules and other extrapulmonary manifestations.

What are the symptoms of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection?

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.

The incubation period of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection was 16-35 days. From asymptomatic to severe interstitial pneumonia, it is dry cough at the beginning, which will affect sleep at night. Aggregation will lead to facial edema, chest tightness, chest pain, dizziness, headache, dry cough without sputum, or white mucus sputum after class, purulent sputum, and sometimes bloody hemoptysis.

Congestion and edema of nasopharynx and conjunctiva. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection can have cervical lymph node enlargement, rash, chest signs are not obvious, lung auscultation can have fine moist rale, occasionally pleural friction sound and pleural effusion sign. X-ray examination showed that there was a small amount of exudate in the alveoli, and pulmonary parenchyma change and emphysema could occur.

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In our country, some children's pneumonia is distributed in four seasons, but most of it occurs in winter or winter spring season. The climate changes suddenly, and colds often occur in this season. As a result of air pollution, crowded rooms, poor ventilation and so on, these are the external environmental incentives leading to infantile pneumonia.