Children with pneumonia prevention and treatment tips

Pneumonia is a common disease in children in children against life-threatening disease, one of the largest, the younger the more complications, more severe disease. Especially now that spring and summer, the air humidity, pathogens easily transmitted, a high incidence of pneumonia, but also should cause parents attention.

Pneumonia divided by duration: acute pneumonia, persistent pneumonia, chronic pneumonia in three types. Classification by pathogens: bacterial pneumonia, mycoplasma pneumonia, fungal pneumonia, viral pneumonia. Recently, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention release said that it had been containment of the “atypical pneumonia” is a coronavirus pneumonia.

The occurrence of pneumonia, often due to colds, bronchitis and other diseases and timely treatment is not spread to the lungs to become pneumonia. After the majority of the performance of a child suffering from pneumonia, fever, cough, shortness of breath, sometimes nose incitement, lips cyanosis and so on. Severe pneumonia may be due to breathing difficulties caused by severe hypoxia, there heartbeat, pale or bluish-purple, irritability, lethargy and other symptoms, or even heat cramps, and vomiting brown objects, abdominal distension, which is very dangerous. Newborns, especially premature infants ability to respond poorly, suffering from symptoms of atypical pneumonia without fever or cough, body temperature normal or below normal, it is often easy to overlook the adults and neonatal pneumonia, leading to adverse consequences occurred, in fact, a careful observation, you can still find some symptoms of suffering from pneumonia of newborns often vomit white foam, non-feeding, crying is low, looking gray hair, bruising around the lips, skin gray, cold limbs, hair, irritability, shallow breathing rapid or irregular, but also see the expansion nasal symptoms such as incitement to, or nose, parents and newborns found the above symptoms, should be particularly vigilant.

      Prevention of pneumonia in children usually focus on strengthening the physical exercise, timely treatment of colds and bronchitis. In addition, the child should be given to the necessary and adequate nutrition, we must fight for breast-feeding for at least 4 months later, and reasonably complementary feeding. Children usually go to outdoor activities, sun exposure, indoor air should be fresh and circulation. Seasonal epidemics of infectious diseases are not kids go to public places, do not let children come into contact with infected children and adults, when the weather changes in a timely manner for their children clothes. Then there must actively prevent rickets, anemia, malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and other disorders. Because they are closely related with the occurrence and development of pneumonia. Should also pay attention to their children according to the procedures for planning immunization, measles, whooping cough, influenza and other infectious diseases can be so that the lowering of body resistance in children caused by pneumonia, so do not ignore the EPI.