What are the symptoms of mycoplasma infection in children?

Normal mycoplasma infection is transmitted through sexual transmission, but there is also a chance of this disease being transmitted between mother and child. Parents need to detect mycoplasma infection in children as early as possible, because the symptoms of some patients are relatively subtle if parents do not examine them carefully. Generally, children with mycoplasma infection will experience symptoms such as cough, organ lesions, and fever.

1. Cough:

In the early stage, children cough with little sputum and it is dry cough. Later, it gradually turns into a stubborn and severe cough accompanied by a small amount of mucous sputum, especially at night, which is a bit like whooping cough. Infants and young children present with wheezing and difficulty breathing. About 3%-10% of them can develop into mycoplasma pneumonia. Some children do not have obvious cough, but mainly have high fever, chills and sore throat symptoms.

2. Other organ diseases:

Mycoplasma pneumoniae can also cause lesions in other systems and organs, such as measles-like rash, myalgia, migratory joint pain, liver function damage, hemolytic anemia, meningoencephalitis, myocarditis, pericarditis, nephritis, etc.

Mycoplasma infection: Mycoplasma infection in children has very obvious characteristics. It is more common in older children, especially those over 3 years old, and less common in children under 1 year old; moderate fever, with body temperature mostly between 38-39℃; irritating cough, which is more severe and lasts for a long time, and the short-term treatment effect is poor; wheezing almost never occurs.

Bronchial asthma: Children with bronchial asthma sometimes cough violently, but at the same time they also wheeze. Some parents do not realize that their children are wheezing. On the one hand, they do not know what wheezing is. They only notice that their children seem to have a hissing sound in their throats or that their children always have phlegm that they cannot spit out. Some children are indeed atypical, and the doctor can only hear the wheezing at the end of exhalation through a stethoscope.