Cough symptoms of Mycoplasma in children

summary

Mycoplasma infection in children mainly affects children's respiratory system. Symptoms: high fever, loss of appetite, mental fatigue, drowsiness or restlessness. The onset of the disease is cough. In the early stage, it was mostly dry cough, and later it turned to wet cough with phlegm. Moderate and fine moist rales could be heard in the lungs, especially in the lower part of the two lungs on the back and near the spine. When the lesions were fused and expanded, there could be dullness on percussion, and decreased or tubular respiratory sounds on auscultation. Children with persistent high fever, body temperature does not drop after medication, or body temperature drops after antipyretic drugs and rises to high fever in a short time, should go to the hospital laboratory in time for serological examination, to see if it is mycoplasma infection, and do other related examinations, such as X-ray, and exclude tuberculosis, etc., erythromycin is effective for mycoplasma pneumonia, let's talk about the symptoms of Mycoplasma cough in children

Cough symptoms of Mycoplasma in children

1. Mycoplasma pneumoniae does not cause symptoms immediately after it enters the baby's body. It will cause symptoms only after it has been latent for about 2 to 3 weeks. The main manifestations of the baby are general discomfort, loss of appetite, etc.

2. Cough: heavy cough. In the initial stage of dry cough, then secretion of sputum (occasionally with a small amount of blood), sometimes cough slightly like pertussis. In the early stage, the baby coughs with little sputum, showing a dry cough, and then gradually turns into a stubborn severe cough, accompanied by a small amount of mucoid sputum. Especially at night, the cough is very severe, a bit like pertussis. Infants show asthma and dyspnea.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae can also cause diseases of other systems and organs, such as measles like rash, myalgia, wandering joint pain, liver function damage, hemolytic anemia, meningoencephalitis, myocarditis, pericarditis, nephritis, etc.

matters needing attention

Lean meat, fish and eggs are mainly composed of protein. One gram of protein absorbs 18 ml of water in the body, and the final product of protein metabolism is urea. Children eat more protein, excretion of urea will be relatively increased, and every 300 mg of urea excretion, at least to take 20 ml of water. Therefore, high protein diet should be avoided in children with high fever and dehydration, and it can be supplemented appropriately in the later stage of the disease to improve their physique. The pungent food stimulates greatly, and it is easy to change heat and injure body fluid, so it is not suitable to add spicy oil, pepper and spicy condiments in the diet of children with pneumonia.