Nursing children with pneumonia

In China, infant and child mortality caused by pneumonia is the first disease. However, parents should not be overly nervous, so long as a doctor with active treatment, enhanced care, rehabilitation of sick children will soon be restored.

Children with pneumonia care, many things, focusing on six areas:

1, pneumonia in children living environment should keep the air fresh and clean. Children get sick, you should decline a visitor, especially other people have respiratory tract infection, children should be isolated to prevent cross-infection. Bedroom windows should be timed so that the air circulation, can not smoke indoors, cut can not be windows and doors closed, causing indoor air quality. Room temperature appropriate to around 18 ℃.

2, the sick children during the period should be allowed to stay in bed, children with relatively weak health, adequate rest is conducive to children with physical rehabilitation.

3, we must pay attention to children with additional water. An increase in respiratory secretions of children with pneumonia, throat often sputum sound, coupled with the loss of heat when the water more, so to ensure a sufficient volume of fluid intake. In bed, parents should be constantly changing position in children to promote mucus discharge. For the severe asthmatic children, and are advised to take semi-supine head and upper body elevation, so that reduce the symptoms of breathing difficulties.

It is noteworthy that, parents should also pay attention to maintaining airway patency in children, in the way medical care for fear of children not to cold but will cover your children with facial port, so that increase the impact of respiratory disease.

4, care should be strengthened during the supplementary nutrition to children, a small amount of land to many children eat easily digestible food, In addition, we must pay attention to children with vitamin supplements to boost children’s resistance to disease.

5, usually observed in children should pay attention to breathing, identifying the severity of the disease.

6, observe the children during quiet breathing frequency, if the number of children with quiet breathing, when more than 50 times per minute, they should immediately to the hospital. If the children not only to speed up breathing, coughing, and make them apathetic or irritability, nasal flap, lip bruising weeks, this is severe in children, should live in hospital for treatment as soon as possible.