Health care methods for children with pneumonia

People have heard of pneumonia. Many pneumonia patients suffer from the disease. Therefore, the treatment of pneumonia has become a serious matter. There are reasons for the occurrence of pneumonia. Timely treatment can effectively control pneumonia. But nursing work should not be neglected. What are the main daily care for children with pneumonia?

1. Pay attention to proper nutrition and adequate water intake. Children with pneumonia often have high fever, poor appetite, and are unwilling to eat, so the diet should be light and easy to digest, while ensuring a certain amount of high-quality protein. For those with fever, give them a liquid diet (such as human milk, cow's milk, rice soup, egg drop soup, beef soup, vegetable soup, fruit juice, etc.), and add semi-liquid food (such as porridge, noodles, cakes, etc.) after the fever subsides. Because children with pneumonia have more breathing times and fever, the evaporation of water is more than usual, so it is necessary to add an appropriate amount of sugar and salt water.

2. Strengthen skin and oral care, especially for patients with excessive sweating, change damp clothes in time and wipe off sweat with a hot towel, which is good for skin heat dissipation and resistance to germs. Children with excessive sputum should try to cough up the sputum to prevent poor sputum discharge and affect pneumonia recovery. If the condition allows, parents should often pick up the child and pat the back gently. Bedridden children should turn over frequently, which can prevent lung congestion and make sputum easier to cough up, which is helpful for recovery.

3. Take medicine and injections on time to avoid affecting the efficacy. Children have poor disease resistance, especially infants, and their condition is prone to relapse. When parents find that their children are breathing fast, have difficulty breathing, have blue lips, and are pale or cyanotic, it means that the child is lacking oxygen, which is a sign of worsening condition and must be rescued as soon as possible.

4. Keep the respiratory tract unobstructed. When children have pneumonia, the gas exchange in the alveoli is restricted, and there are varying degrees of hypoxia in the body. If the nasal cavity is blocked or there is a lot of sputum in the trachea and bronchi, it will affect the inhalation of air and aggravate hypoxia. Therefore, parents should clear nasal secretions and suction sputum for children in time to keep the respiratory tract unobstructed, and prevent sticky sputum from blocking and choking on milk or medicine to cause suffocation. The room should maintain a certain humidity to avoid dry air, which is conducive to coughing up sputum.

5. Keep a quiet and clean environment to ensure that the sick child rests. It is common to see that there are always many elders and relatives around the sick children. On the one hand, it is not conducive to the rest of the sick children because of the noise of many people. At the same time, with many people, the exhaled carbon dioxide accumulates inside, and the dirty air is not conducive to the recovery of pneumonia. Therefore, there should not be too many people in the room, and visitors should not stay too long. The room should be ventilated regularly to ensure air circulation, but drafts should be avoided, which is conducive to the recovery of pneumonia.

Children are very weak and are easily infected by common diseases such as pediatric pneumonia. Therefore, in daily life, parents must take preventive measures to ensure that their children are not harmed by the disease. In addition, once infected with this disease, please go to a regular hospital for treatment in time to avoid delaying the disease.