The most serious dangers of pneumonia in children

Nowadays, most young men and women lack experience in taking care of babies. As new parents, they face various situations that may happen to their babies at any time. I believe that many parents do not understand how harmful neonatal pneumonia is. Here are the six common hazards of neonatal pneumonia:

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 times/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: The child is restless, has difficulty breathing and cyanosis, with faster breathing in the early stage and slower breathing in severe cases, with groaning breathing and changes in breathing rhythm. In severe cases, the heart rate speeds up or slows down, and coma and convulsions may occur.

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 the patient cannot lie still. One side of the chest is full.

4. 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.

5. Toxic shock: body temperature rises suddenly 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.

6. Toxic intestinal paralysis: manifested by severe abdominal distension, vomiting, constipation and anal canal 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 show that the intestine is dilated, the wall is thinned, the diaphragm is raised, and a gas-liquid level appears in the intestinal cavity.