Specific tests for pneumonia in children

Pediatric pneumonia is a common pediatric disease and is easily cross-infected. It is difficult for babies to cooperate during the treatment process because they are small. Secondly, it is easy to relapse after recovery, which makes parents feel troubled. Do parents know the three routine examinations that children with pneumonia need to do?

(1) Sputum culture and drug sensitivity test

Through sputum culture, the type of pathogenic bacteria can be detected, so that appropriate drugs can be selected for treatment.

The drug sensitivity test is used to measure drug sensitivity so that drugs can be used for treatment accurately and effectively.

In addition, during the epidemic period of mycoplasma pneumonia, cold agglutination test should be performed to diagnose mycoplasma infection. Cold agglutination test is mainly used for auxiliary diagnosis of primary atypical pneumonia caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae.

(2) Blood routine

Routine blood test is the most general and basic blood test. Blood is composed of two major parts: liquid and visible cells. Routine blood test tests the cellular part of blood. Diseases can be judged by observing changes in quantity and morphological distribution. It is one of the commonly used auxiliary examination methods for doctors to diagnose diseases. These include the total white blood cell count and neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, etc. White blood cells are important defensive weapons in the human body. When pathogens invade the body, white blood cells can phagocytize and eliminate pathogens. Therefore, the nature of the infection, the body's response state and the prognosis can be roughly estimated from the total white blood cell count, classification and morphological changes. The total white blood cell count of children with bacterial pneumonia is mostly increased, generally up to (15-30)×109/L.

(3) X-ray examination

X-ray examination is often used as one of the auxiliary examination methods in medicine. There are two commonly used X-ray examination methods in clinical practice: fluoroscopy and radiography. Fluoroscopy is more economical and convenient, and the examined part can be changed at will for multi-faceted observation, but it cannot leave an objective record and it is not easy to distinguish details. Radiography can make the structure of the examined part clearly displayed on the X-ray film, and can be kept as an objective record for a long time, so that it can be studied at any time when needed or compared during reexamination. If necessary, special X-ray examinations can also be performed, such as tomography, wave recording photography, and angiography. The choice of which X-ray examination method must be based on the specific situation of the examination, the requirements for solving the disease and the clinical needs. X-ray examination is only one of the clinical auxiliary diagnosis methods.

I hope this article can help parents whose babies unfortunately have pneumonia, so that they will not be blind and helpless when taking their babies to the doctor. For the health of babies, learning these is far from enough. If you want to know more about children's diseases, please continue to pay attention to us!