How to treat the baby's early symptoms?
Have a fever.
Most children with pneumonia have fever symptoms, and their body temperature is above 38℃ for two or three days. Although the baby catches a cold, it will also give off heat, but the body temperature is mostly below 38℃, which lasts for a short time and the effect of antipyretics is also obvious. But at the same time, we should also be alert to children's pneumonia without fever. The baby may have a high temperature when he has pneumonia, but he may not have a fever, or even his temperature is lower than normal.
The duration of fever can not be used as a basis for judging pneumonia. Some babies get pneumonia after only two days of fever, while some babies get fever for a week without pneumonia. Therefore, it is not possible to judge whether a child has pneumonia from a fever, and it needs to be judged in combination with other aspects.
Second, see if it is difficult to cough and breathe.
Judging whether the baby has pneumonia depends on whether the baby has symptoms such as cough, wheezing and dyspnea. Cough and asthma caused by colds and bronchitis are mostly paroxysmal, and there is generally no difficulty in breathing. If the cough and wheezing are severe, the breathing frequency increases at rest (that is, the number of breaths of infants less than 2 months is ≥60 breaths/minute; 2- 12-month-old baby ≥50 times per minute; 1-5-year-old children ≥40 times/minute), one piece on each side of the nose, and the lips are blue or purple. Once the above symptoms appear, it means that the condition is serious and it is urgent.
More than 50% of the pathogens of viral pneumonia are respiratory syncytial virus, accounting for one-third of the total number of hospitalized children with pneumonia. It happens in winter and spring. The most prominent symptoms are wheezing, suffocation and prolonged exhalation. Sometimes you can hear the sound of breathing as long as you are close to the child, which is very painful.
Third, look at the mental state
Careful mothers should also pay attention to the child's mental state if they want to find the child's pneumonia in time. On the contrary, the baby's mental state is poor, his lips are blue, he is agitated, crying or sleeping, and he has convulsions. Delirium can occur in a small number of children, indicating that children are seriously ill and are more likely to get pneumonia.
Fourth, look at appetite.
When you get pneumonia, your appetite will drop significantly. Children who have pneumonia don't eat, or cry when they are nursing.
Five listening chest sounds
Because the baby's chest wall is thin, sometimes blisters can be heard without stethoscope, so careful parents can listen to his chest when the baby is quiet or asleep. When listening to the baby's chest, the room temperature should be above 18℃, take off the baby's coat, gently stick the ears on the chest walls on both sides of the baby's spine, and listen carefully. Children with pneumonia will hear the sound of "purring" when inhaling, which doctors call tiny blisters, which is an important sign of lung inflammation.
Do 6 o'clock every day to prevent pneumonia.
1, scheduled immunization and pneumonia vaccine injection for children are effective in preventing pneumonia in children.
2, pay attention to physical exercise, open the window every day indoors for ventilation, and often carry out outdoor activities to enhance the body's cold resistance and adaptability to environmental temperature changes, so that respiratory infections and pneumonia are not easy to occur.
Children's clothes should not be too thick or too thin, and babies should not be wrapped too tightly.
4. Infants and young children should avoid contact with patients with respiratory infections as much as possible, and stay away from children when their families catch a cold.
5. Strengthening exercise is the foundation: pay attention to nutrition in infancy, add complementary food in time, and cultivate good eating and hygiene habits. Prevention of rickets and malnutrition is the key to prevent pneumonia.
6. Just have a fever and ask to go to a big hospital or a small hospital for infusion, and stay in the infusion room with noisy cough for at least 2 hours. It is conceivable that children's small airways will inhale hundreds of bacteria or viruses, especially if they continue infusion for more than 3-4 days in the outpatient department, and they will be exposed to more pathogens. In recent two years, measles has been prevalent in infants and even newborns, and a considerable proportion of it was spread after infusion in outpatient department, which is a typical example.