What are the symptoms of pneumonia in children?

We know that Chinese medicine has four steps to diagnose a disease: look, listen, ask, and feel. The first step, "look", means to determine the type of disease by checking the symptoms on the patient's body surface. The third step, "ask", also means to obtain information about symptoms that are not visible on the surface by asking the patient. A more careful way to diagnose the disease shows the importance of understanding the symptoms of the disease. In this case, let's see the symptoms of pneumonia.

1. Chills and high fever: Typical cases start with sudden chills, followed by high fever, which can be as high as 39℃~40℃, showing a prolonged fever type, often accompanied by headache, body muscle aches, and decreased appetite. The fever type may be atypical after the use of antibiotics, and the elderly and weak may only have a low fever or no fever.

2. Cough and sputum: In the initial stage, it is an irritating dry cough, followed by coughing up white mucus sputum or bloody sputum. After 1 to 2 days, you can cough up mucus, bloody sputum, rust-colored sputum, or purulent sputum. In the dissipation period, the amount of sputum increases, and the sputum is yellow and thin.

3. Chest pain: There is often severe side chest pain, often like a needle, which is aggravated by coughing or deep breathing and can radiate to the shoulder or abdomen. If it is lower lobe pneumonia, it can stimulate the diaphragmatic pleura and cause severe abdominal pain, which can be easily misdiagnosed as acute abdomen.

4. Dyspnea: Dyspnea, rapid and shallow breathing due to insufficient ventilation caused by pulmonary consolidation, chest pain and toxemia. In severe cases, it affects gas exchange, causes a decrease in arterial oxygen saturation and causes cyanosis.

5. Other symptoms: A small number of people with severe infection may experience gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension or diarrhea, and may experience confusion, irritability, drowsiness, coma, etc.

Through the above introduction, we know that there are five main symptoms of pneumonia. After further understanding the symptoms of pneumonia, what we should do is to prescribe the right medicine, break them one by one, and finally achieve the result of curing pneumonia. This is our ultimate goal of treating pneumonia, and we must do it well and quickly.