Is the child's mental anxiety caused by pneumonia? Pneumonia in children can cause 6 hazards

Many parents cannot distinguish the symptoms of childhood pneumonia and childhood colds. Today, the editor has compiled 4 obvious characteristics of childhood pneumonia. Parents, please continue to learn more.

There are 4 obvious characteristics of pneumonia in children

Symptom 1: Increased body temperature

By touching the forehead, body and measuring the temperature, you can find changes in the child's body temperature. Most children with pneumonia have a fever, and most of them are above 38°C. If antipyretics are used, they can only temporarily reduce the fever. The duration of the fever cannot be used as the only basis for judging pneumonia. Some babies develop pneumonia after only two days of fever, while some babies have a fever for a week and it is not caused by pneumonia. Therefore, fever alone cannot determine whether a child has pneumonia. It needs to be judged in combination with other aspects.

Symptom 2: Difficulty breathing

If a child has pneumonia, he or she will usually have a severe cough or wheeze and difficulty breathing. Difficulty breathing is manifested as breath holding, bilateral nostrils opening and closing, and purple lips, which indicates that the condition is serious and should not be delayed.

When parents observe their child's breathing rate, they must know: "The breathing rate of children at rest is different at different ages." If the cough and wheezing are severe, and the breathing rate increases when still, that is, the baby's breathing rate does not meet the following numerical standards, he is suspected of "pediatric pneumonia."

Less than 2-3 months: less than 60 times/min;

2 months to 12 months: less than 50 times/minute;

1-5 years old: less than 40 times/minute.

If a child has a cough and has increased breathing, it is mild pneumonia; if there is increased breathing and chest indentation, it is severe pneumonia; if it is accompanied by inability to drink water and cyanosis, it is extremely severe pneumonia. Mild pneumonia can be treated at home; severe pneumonia must be hospitalized. However, if symptoms are found, you must first go to the hospital to ask a doctor to help confirm the diagnosis.

Symptom 3: Mental anxiety

If a child has pediatric pneumonia, he or she will show some mental abnormalities, such as being often anxious, crying, or drowsy, having convulsions, etc.

In order to detect pneumonia in children in time, careful mothers should also pay attention to the mental state of their children. If the child is in good spirits, can play, and loves to laugh while having a fever, coughing, and wheezing, it indicates that the child is unlikely to have pneumonia. On the contrary, if the child is in a poor mental state, has blue lips and lips, is irritable, cries, or is drowsy, has convulsions, and a few children may have delirium, it means that the child is more seriously ill and is more likely to have pneumonia. In the early stages of pneumonia, the child may not have obvious changes in spirit, or may be in a poor mental state.

Symptom 4: Decreased appetite

If a child has pneumonia, his appetite will decrease significantly, and he will keep crying when feeding, which will catch the mother off guard. If the child is confirmed to have pneumonia, he should continue to be breastfed and fed, and drink more soup. If the child has a decreased appetite, he should eat small meals frequently. Breastfeeding babies should increase the number of feedings per day to enhance nutrition and physical strength.

As long as children with pneumonia are found in time and treated effectively, they can recover quickly. However, severe cases are prone to the following complications, and if not treated in time, the prognosis is poor.

① Heart failure: When the disease occurs, the child will be restless, have difficulty breathing and cyanosis, accelerated heart rate, 180 beats/minute, rapid breathing, >60 beats/minute, enlarged liver, edema of lower limbs, etc. Immediate measures should be taken to control its development and use cardiotonic drugs, diuretics, etc. for treatment.

② Respiratory failure: Children are restless, have difficulty breathing and cyanosis, their breathing speeds up in the early stage, slows down in severe cases, they have groaning breathing and changes in breathing rhythm. In severe cases, the heart rate speeds up or slows down, and they may become comatose and convulse.

③ Pneumothorax: Pneumothorax is prone to occur in cases of Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. At this time, the high fever persists or the body temperature rises again after it drops, coughing is frequent, breathing is rapid, and one side of the chest is full.

④ Hypoxic encephalopathy: When pneumonia causes breathing difficulties and severe hypoxia, children may vomit, have headaches, become drowsy or restless, followed by coma and convulsions. Encephalopathy is rapid, aggressive, and severe, often intertwined with multiple complications, which affect each other, making the condition more complicated and causing a high mortality rate.

⑤ Toxic shock, body temperature suddenly rises to 40-41℃ or drops suddenly, chills, pale complexion, irritability or coma, sweating, marbleized skin, decreased blood pressure or unmeasurable blood pressure, and changes in multiple organ functions. The symptoms are severe.

⑥Toxic intestinal paralysis: manifested by severe abdominal distension, vomiting, constipation and anal tube without gas (no farting). Abdominal distension compresses the heart and lungs, making breathing more severe. At this time, the bread is pale and gray, the abdomen is percussed with a tympanic sound, the bowel sounds disappear, the vomitus may be coffee-colored or feces-like, and X-ray examinations reveal that the intestinal tube is dilated, the wall is thinned, the diaphragm is raised, and a gas-liquid level appears in the intestinal cavity.