What are the symptoms of pneumonia in children?

Rapid breathing, cyanosis and cough are common symptoms of neonatal pneumonia. If parents find that their children have the symptoms described below, please take your child to see a doctor in time to avoid worsening of the condition. Let's learn more about this disease below.

1. Rapid breathing: The normal respiratory rate of a newborn is about 40 times per minute, while that of a newborn with pneumonia can increase to more than 60 times per minute. The lung capacity of a newborn is small, and it is difficult to increase ventilation by deepening the breathing amplitude. Therefore, after the apex of the lung is lesioned, the ventilation can only be increased by speeding up the breathing rate. Therefore, rapid breathing is the most common clinical manifestation of neonatal pneumonia.

2. Cyanosis: Children with pneumonia may have cyanosis around the mouth. Severely ill children may have cyanosis on the lips, nail beds, head, face and whole body. Cyanosis is a sign of hypoxia.

3. Cough: Newborns suffering from amniotic fluid aspiration pneumonia, meconium aspiration pneumonia and intrauterine infectious pneumonia often do not have respiratory symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, etc. However, postnatal infectious pneumonia is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract, and respiratory symptoms are relatively more, which can be manifested as choking cough during feeding, single cough and short cough.

4. Foaming at the mouth: Foaming at the mouth is one of the characteristics of neonatal pneumonia. The foam mainly comes from tracheal secretions.

5. Fever: Most newborns with pneumonia do not have fever. Even if they have fever, the temperature is mostly low and lasts for 2-3 days, rarely more than a week. Severely ill children sometimes not only do not have fever, but only have a low body temperature.

6. Other symptoms: poor feeding, weak spirit, and some children also have digestive tract symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting.

After understanding the various symptoms of neonatal pneumonia, parents can take their children to see a doctor and then choose the correct treatment method to treat the disease.