Is pneumonia in children particularly dangerous?

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, accidents may happen to newborn babies. So, is the harm of pediatric pneumonia particularly serious? I hope this introduction will help you 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.

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.

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.

Neonatal pneumonia is the most common severe respiratory disease in the neonatal period. Since most couples are new parents, they do not have much experience in taking care of newborn babies. Therefore, if they are not careful, newborn babies may have accidents. Therefore, parents should pay attention to any situation with their babies.