The harm of improper treatment of pneumonia in children

Nowadays, most young men and women lack experience in taking care of babies. How should they, as new parents, deal with various situations that may occur to their babies at any time? If you are not careful, newborn babies may have accidents. Neonatal pneumonia is the most common serious respiratory disease in the neonatal period. What are the dangers of neonatal pneumonia? I hope this introduction will be helpful in caring for your newborn baby.

1. 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.

What are the dangers of neonatal pneumonia?

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

What are the dangers of neonatal pneumonia?

3. Hypoxic encephalopathy: When pneumonia causes breathing difficulties and severe hypoxia, children may vomit, have headaches, become sleepy or irritable, 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.

Toxic intestinal paralysis is manifested by severe abdominal distension, vomiting, constipation, and anal inability to pass 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, bowel sounds disappear, and the vomitus may be coffee-colored or fecal-like. X-ray examinations reveal dilated intestines, thinning walls, rising diaphragms, and gas-liquid levels in the intestinal cavity.

When a baby suffers toxic shock, his body temperature may rise suddenly to 40-41℃ or drop suddenly, and he will have chills, pale face, irritability or coma, sweating, marbleized skin, low blood pressure or unmeasureable blood pressure, and changes in multiple organ functions. The symptoms are serious.