Respiratory frequency for diagnosis of pneumonia

Pneumonia is a common disease in children, frequently-occurring disease, particularly in infants and young children begins abruptly, often accompanied by fever, cough, throat snore, sound obvious symptoms such as phlegm. As the baby does not expectoration, and sometimes mucus in the main airway obstruction may be manifested as shortness of breath, severe breathing difficulties, due to phlegm blocking the airway and suffocate. In addition, the decline in digestive function, vomiting, diarrhea, pneumonia is also a manifestation of the baby.

Often found by physical examination in children with breathing fast, shallow, severe shortness of breath occurs when the sternum and chest on the concave depression, nose flap, mouth-week hair green, bluish lips and finger nails, check the chest when the lungs can be heard a dry, moist Luo tone.

World Health Organization in the “case management of children with acute respiratory tract infection”, the strongly recommended for prevention and treatment of acute respiratory infections in developing countries the technology, aims to improve grass-roots medical staff to pneumonia diagnosis and treatment capacity, while parents can control it to diagnosis of pneumonia.

Depending on age, the number of infants and young children to diagnose pneumonia, respiratory

Age, respiratory rate,

≤ 2 Yue ≥ 60 times / min

2 ~ December ≥ 50 beats / min

1 ~ 5-year-old former ≥ 40 beats / min