How to take care of children with pneumonia

Pneumonia is not unfamiliar in our lives, but because we know too little about pneumonia and do not know some common sense about pneumonia, if you feel that you have pneumonia but cannot confirm it yourself, pneumonia patients can go to a regular hospital for relevant examinations. However, pneumonia patients should pay attention to common sense issues. So, how to care for children with pneumonia?

(1) Keep the indoor air fresh: In winter, the house should be ventilated frequently, but care should be taken to avoid convection wind, and the child should be kept warm. In the hot summer, wrap the child in a blanket and take him to a shaded place outside to let him breathe fresh air and improve hypoxia.

(2) Ensure adequate rest and sleep: All examinations and treatments should be carried out in a concentrated manner, and excessive crying should be avoided to reduce oxygen consumption and alleviate the burden on the heart.

(3) Fever care:

1. For children with wind-cold lung-blocking syndrome, after taking the medicine, they should be lightly covered with a blanket and given hot porridge to help sweating. Slight sweating is appropriate, and wind should be avoided. If there is high fever and excessive sweating, you can wipe it with a dry towel, but do not use cold water or ice to prevent the pores from closing suddenly and the evil qi from being able to be expelled.

2. For children with phlegm-heat blocking the lungs, who have high fever and no sweating, you can apply an ice pack or a wet towel to the forehead.

(4) Diet care: Give liquid food rich in nutrition and vitamins, such as human milk, cow's milk, vegetable juice and fruit juice. Due to high fever, the child's breathing speeds up and loses more water, so more water should be supplemented appropriately. It is not advisable to eat a lot of fat-rich food and spicy and roasted food to avoid heat and phlegm. When feeding, giving water and medicine to children with severe pneumonia, the child should be held in a sloped position, fed frequently in small amounts, and fed after swallowing to prevent accidental aspiration and suffocation, which may cause sudden death.

How to care for children with pneumonia is as described above. It is for your reference only. In order for the children to recover soon, I hope that parents will do a good job of nursing. I wish the children a speedy recovery.