How to care for children with pneumonia in winter? Two key points to determine infant pneumonia

Winter is very harmful to babies, especially childhood pneumonia, which tends to be more prevalent in winter. Note that winter pneumonia patients are generally children. If you find that your baby has pneumonia, you should not eat anything randomly. Parents need to pay attention to the baby's dietary health.

The diet of pneumonia patients should be based on the principle of patient recovery, nutritional supplementation and increasing the body's disease resistance. It is best to eat more nourishing and nutritious foods. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to many taboo foods:

Two key points to determine infant pneumonia

1. Rapid breathing is the main manifestation of pneumonia

Although colds and pneumonia are two completely different diseases, in reality they are sometimes difficult to distinguish, even for professional clinicians, especially in the early stages of the disease when symptoms are atypical.

Common colds can cause runny nose, sneezing, coughing and other symptoms. The fever will gradually decrease after 2 to 3 days, and the previous symptoms will gradually ease until the patient is completely healthy. The natural course of the disease is generally about one week. The lesions of colds are mainly in the upper respiratory tract. If the lesions are not controlled and spread to the lower respiratory tract (trachea, bronchi, lungs), they will develop into bronchitis and pneumonia. If pneumonia develops, the typical manifestations are fever, cough, shortness of breath, cyanosis, nasal flaring, fine moist rales on auscultation of the lungs, and patchy shadows on chest X-rays. The two are easy to confuse, and here it is particularly emphasized that increased breathing is the main manifestation of pneumonia. Shortness of breath refers to: infants less than 2 months old, breathing ≥ 60 times/minute; 2-12 months old, breathing ≥ 50 times/minute; 1-5 years old, breathing ≥ 40 times/minute. Therefore, pneumonia should be considered when symptoms of shortness of breath (nasal flaring, nodding breathing, three-depression sign, etc.) appear. To confirm pneumonia, doctors need to auscultate the lungs and take chest X-rays.

2. Perform chest X-ray examination and professional diagnosis by a doctor to rule out pneumonia

Pneumonia diagnosis includes professional diagnosis by doctors and chest X-ray imaging diagnosis. The simplest and easiest is a chest X-ray.

How to care for children with pneumonia in winter

1. Maintain a quiet and clean environment to ensure that the child has a good rest. The air in the room should be fresh, and the room temperature should be kept between 18℃ and 22℃. The humidity should be kept at a certain level. In addition, the room should be kept quiet to avoid affecting the child's rest and hindering the child's recovery.

2. Pay attention to diet nutrition and water supplementation. The diet of the child should be light, easy to digest and nutritious. For children who choke on milk, baby rice cereal can be added to the milk to make it thicker to avoid choking. Children with pneumonia have increased breathing frequency and fever, which consumes a lot of water in the body, so the child should be supplemented with an appropriate amount of sugar and salt water.

3. Keep the child's respiratory tract unobstructed. Parents should promptly clear the child's nasal secretions and help the child cough up phlegm to keep the respiratory tract unobstructed, and prevent sticky phlegm from blocking the trachea and milk or medicine from choking on the trachea and causing suffocation.

4. Take medicine and injections on time. Take antipyretic medicine as prescribed by the doctor, and let the child drink plenty of water after taking the medicine to help sweat and reduce fever. Physical cooling methods can also be used to reduce the temperature, such as alcohol baths, cold water bags on the forehead, etc. For malnourished and weak children with fever, warm water baths can be used, or Chinese patent medicines with heat-clearing effects can be taken.

What are the dietary taboos for children with pneumonia?

1. High-protein diet Lean meat, fish and eggs are mainly composed of protein. Children who eat more protein will excrete more urea, and for every 300 mg of urea excreted, at least 20 ml of water will be taken away. Therefore, children with pneumonia, high fever and dehydration should avoid high-protein diets, and can supplement them appropriately in the later stages of the disease to improve their physical fitness.

2. Sea food: Sea food such as fish and shrimp can easily cause heat and phlegm, which is not conducive to the treatment of this disease and the recovery of the body.

3. Spicy food: Spicy food is highly irritating and can easily generate heat and damage body fluids. Therefore, children with pneumonia should not add chili oil, pepper and spicy condiments to their diet.

4. Greasy and heavy food: Children with this disease have weak digestive function. If they eat greasy and heavy food, it will affect their digestion and absorption function, and nutrition will not be replenished in time, resulting in reduced disease resistance. Therefore, children with this disease should not eat fatty pork, pork chops, egg yolks, crabs, anchovies, crucian carp roe, animal offal and other heavy foods.

5. Too sweet food: If children with pneumonia eat too much sugar, the bactericidal effect of white blood cells in the body will be inhibited. The more sugar they eat, the more obvious the inhibition will be, the disease will be difficult to cure, and the condition will be delayed.

6. Raw and cold food: Children have immature yin and yang bodies. If they eat too much raw and cold food such as cold drinks, frozen juice, watermelon, banana, raw pears, etc., it is easy to damage the yang energy in the body. If the yang energy is damaged, the child will be unable to resist evil and the illness will be difficult to cure. Therefore, they should avoid eating this food.