Parents need to see the symptoms of lobar pneumonia in children

If a child suffers from lobar pneumonia, there will be many obvious symptoms, such as coughing, high fever, chest pain, and some patients will have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and diarrhea. The following will introduce more manifestations of this disease.

1. The disease occurs suddenly with chills, high fever, chest pain, cough, and iron-colored sputum. Extensive lesions may be accompanied by shortness of breath and cyanosis.

2. Some cases may also experience nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and diarrhea.

3. Severe cases may have neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as irritability, delirium, etc. Failure may also occur, complicated by infectious shock, which is called shock-type (or toxic) pneumonia.

4. Acute illness, rapid breathing, and flaring of nostrils. Some patients have herpes on the lips and around the nose.

5. During the congestive phase, pulmonary signs include weakened local respiratory activity, slightly enhanced voice tremor, dullness on percussion, and audible and crepitus sounds.

There may be typical signs in the consolidation stage, such as weakened respiratory movement in the affected area, increased voice resonance and vocal fremitus, dull or solid percussion sounds, and pathological bronchial breath sounds during auscultation; in the dissipation stage, percussion gradually becomes clear sounds, and bronchial breathing sounds gradually weaken and are replaced by moist rales.

6. Lobar pneumonia is alveolitis within one lobe or one segment of the lung caused by infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae. In recent years, due to the use of large amounts of powerful antibiotics, typical lobar pneumonia has become less common. The disease usually occurs when the climate changes suddenly and the body's resistance decreases. It is more common in winter and spring, mainly in children over 3 years old. At this time, the body's immune function, that is, the defense ability, gradually matures, which can limit the lesions to one lung lobe or one lung segment and prevent them from spreading. Generally, lobar pneumonia has an acute onset, manifested by sudden high fever, chest pain, loss of appetite, fatigue, and irritability. A small number of children may have abdominal pain, which is sometimes misdiagnosed as appendicitis. Severely ill children may experience symptoms of toxic encephalopathy, convulsions, delirium and coma, or even septic shock.