Correctly distinguish children with pneumonia and the flu

Cold temperatures, emergency room with pneumonia significantly increased recently. Because children with pneumonia and flu symptoms are sometimes similar to, parents are very easy to confuse the two. Experts remind that —

Children prone to upper respiratory tract infection or influenza, scarlet fever, chicken pox, measles, whooping cough and other infectious diseases, in the case of lower resistance also may be complicated by pneumonia in children. Because children with pneumonia and flu symptoms are sometimes similar to, parents are very easy to confuse the two. Experts remind parents from the “four to see a” start, the correct distinction between children with pneumonia and flu.

A look at most of fever in children suffering from pneumonia symptoms are fever, body temperature over 38 ℃ in the above last two or three days, fever medicine can only make a temporary drop in body temperature while, blamed for rise in the near future. Although the child will be a cold fever, but most of them in body temperature below 38 ℃, short duration, the effect of antipyretic drugs are also more apparent.

2 See coughing and breathing to determine whether the child needs to see a child suffering from pneumonia and whether or cough, asthma and breathing is difficult. Colds and bronchitis caused by cough, dyspnea paroxysmal Duocheng will normally be difficulty in breathing. If the cough, dyspnea heavier, still breathing frequency increased fast (ie, less than 2 months the number of infant respiratory ≥ 60 beats / min; 2 to 12 months infants ≥ 50 beats / min; 1 ~ 5 year-old children ≥ 40 times / points), suggesting a serious condition, without delay.

3 to see if the child in the spirit of fever, cough, while in good spirits, then the tips are less likely to suffer from pneumonia. On the contrary, poor mental state of the child, lips cyanosis, irritability, crying or sleeping and so on, more likely to get pneumonia. Children suffering from pneumonia, can be both the spirit of the initial no significant change in mental state may also be poor.

Four children got to see appetite pneumonia, significantly decreased appetite, stop eating, or a nurse on the crying disturbed. If diagnosed after the child has suffered from pneumonia and should continue to breast-feeding, feeding, if the children with anorexia should be Shaoshiduocan, breast-feeding infants should increase the number of daily feeding in order to enhance nutrition and physical.

5 chest because of the child’s chest wall is thin, and sometimes blisters can be heard without stethoscope sound, so attentive parents when their children fall asleep listening to quiet or his chest. Listening to the child chest, ask the room temperature at 18 ℃ above, take off the child’s shirt, put your ear gently affixed to the spine on both sides of the chest wall, a child, listening carefully. Children with pneumonia will be heard when inhaling, “Gollum Gollum child abuse,” the voice, the doctor called the small blisters sound, it is important signs of lung inflammation.

At the same time carefully observe whether the child chest depression (in the breathing, the ribs on both sides of the edge of invagination with the breath rise and fall). If this happens, you need to send their children to the hospital for treatment immediately.