Correct nursing measures for children with pneumonia

Pneumonia is not common among adults, but it is common among children with low immunity. Once a child accidentally gets pneumonia, what parents should do in home care becomes particularly important. So what should we generally do in home care for children with pneumonia? And how should we do it? Here we will introduce some home care methods.

(1) Keep a quiet and clean environment to ensure that the sick child has a good rest. It is common to see that there are always many elders and relatives around the sick child. On the one hand, the noise caused by the large number of people is not conducive to the sick child's rest. On the other hand, the large number of people causes the exhaled carbon dioxide to accumulate inside, and the polluted air is not conducive to the recovery of pneumonia. Therefore, there should not be too many people in the room, and visitors should not stay too long. The room should be ventilated regularly to ensure air circulation, but drafts should be avoided, which is conducive to the recovery of pneumonia.

(2) Attention should be paid to proper nutrition and adequate water intake. Children with pneumonia often have high fever, poor appetite, and are unwilling to eat, so the diet should be light and easy to digest, while ensuring a certain amount of high-quality protein. For those with fever, give them a liquid diet (such as human milk, cow's milk, rice soup, egg drop soup, beef soup, vegetable soup, fruit juice, etc.), and add semi-liquid food (such as porridge, noodles, cakes, etc.) after the fever subsides. Because children with pneumonia have more breathing times and fever, the evaporation of water is more than usual, so it is necessary to supplement with an appropriate amount of sugar and salt water.

(3) Strengthen skin and oral care. Especially for patients with excessive sweating, wet clothes should be changed in time and sweat should be wiped off with a hot towel. This is good for the skin to dissipate heat and resist bacteria. Children with excessive sputum should try to cough up the sputum to prevent the poor discharge of sputum from affecting the recovery of pneumonia. If the condition permits, parents should often pick up the child and gently pat the back. Children who are bedridden should turn over frequently. This can prevent congestion in the lungs and make it easier to cough up sputum, which helps recovery.

(4) Keep the airway open. When children suffer from pneumonia, the gas exchange in the alveoli is restricted, and there is varying degrees of hypoxia in the body. If the nasal cavity is blocked or there is a large amount of sputum in the trachea or bronchi, it will affect the inhalation of air and aggravate hypoxia. Therefore, parents should promptly clear nasal secretions and suction sputum for the child to keep the airway open, and prevent sticky sputum from blocking the airway and choking on milk or medicine to cause suffocation. A certain humidity should be maintained in the room to avoid dry air, which is conducive to coughing up sputum.

(5) Take medicine and injections on time to avoid affecting the efficacy. Children have poor disease resistance, especially infants, whose illnesses are prone to relapse. When parents find that their children are breathing fast, have difficulty breathing, have blue lips, or have a pale or cyanotic face, it means that the child is suffering from hypoxia, which is a sign of worsening illness and must be treated as soon as possible.

In the home care of pediatric pneumonia, we must do the above, and at the same time pay attention to some other details. The health of the child is the greatest wish of the parents. I hope the above methods will help you and your child's health. The health of the child is our common wish.