Symptoms of aspiration pneumonia in infants

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Aspiration pneumonia is a common disease. It is caused by chemical pneumonia after patients inhale acid substances. If not treated in time, it will cause serious complications, such as respiratory failure and respiratory distress, which will threaten the safety of patients. What are the symptoms of diseases that can cause such serious complications? In order to let you understand this disease, the following small series to tell you what the symptoms of aspiration pneumonia.

Symptoms of aspiration pneumonia in infants

Aspiration pneumonia is generally due to patients with aspiration incentives, the disease will attack in a short time, 1-3 hours or so there will be obvious symptoms. Because there are many kinds of aspiration pneumonia, depending on the material the patient inhales. If it is aspiration pneumonia caused by tracheoesophageal fistula, there will be spasmodic cough and shortness of breath after eating. In the absence of consciousness, inhalation often has no obvious symptoms. But after 1~2 hours, dyspnea can occur suddenly, cyanosis and hypotension rapidly occur, and serous foamy phlegm often occurs, which can bring blood. Moist rales can be heard in both lungs, accompanied by tinnitus. Respiratory distress syndrome may occur in severe cases.

The distribution of lesions in the lung is related to the body position at the time of absorption, which is common in the middle and lower lung fields, and more common in the right lung. When pulmonary edema occurs, the patchy and cloud flocculent shadows of the two lungs fuse into a large area, and spread outward from the hilar of the two lungs, with the middle and inner zones of the two lungs as obvious, which is similar to the X-ray manifestations of cardiogenic acute pulmonary edema, but the heart size and shape are normal, and there is no sign of pulmonary venous hypertension.

Aspiration pneumonia is particularly easy to occur in children. When we have people with sudden dyspnea, non irritating cough and respiratory failure symptoms, we should highly suspect whether it is aspiration pneumonia. In daily life, we can prevent aspiration pneumonia. We usually need to prevent the absorption of food or stomach contents. Therefore, general patients should be gastric emptying during anesthesia, comatose patients can take head down and lateral position, and gastric tube should be placed as soon as possible.

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The above is about the symptoms of aspiration pneumonia. The complications caused by aspiration pneumonia are more serious, so it is suggested that we should pay more attention to the regular diet, don't overeat, what's abnormal in the body, it's best to see a doctor in time.