Symptoms of pneumonia in children, eight methods to teach you

Pediatric pneumonia has become more and more frequent nowadays. It is particularly important to clearly understand the symptoms of pediatric pneumonia and use them to determine whether the child has pediatric pneumonia. We must start to understand it immediately. So, what are the symptoms of pediatric pneumonia?

1. Fever is mostly high.

2. The cough starts with a frequent, irritating dry cough, followed by phlegm sounds in the throat, and the cough may be accompanied by vomiting and choking on milk.

3. Respiratory symptoms

Respiration is shallow and rapid, with nasal flaring, and some children have mild cyanosis around the mouth and nails.

4. Systemic symptoms

In addition to respiratory symptoms, children may also have systemic symptoms such as mental depression, irritability, loss of appetite, shivering, diarrhea, etc.

5. Respiratory symptoms

Breathing is shallow and rapid, reaching more than 80 times per minute, with flaring of the nostrils, three-depression sign, groaning during exhalation, and obvious cyanosis of the face and extremities, or even pale or grayish complexion. Dense, fine, moist rales can be heard in both lungs.

6. Circulatory system symptoms

Pneumonia in infants is often accompanied by heart failure.

7. Neurological symptoms

① Irritability, drowsiness, staring, squinting, and eyeballs moving upward. ② Drowsiness, even coma and convulsions. ③Conjunctival edema. ④Pupil changes, slow or absent reaction to light. ⑤Irregular breathing rhythm. ⑥ The anterior fontanelle is bulging, there are signs of meningeal irritation, and except for the increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure, everything else is normal. This is called toxic encephalopathy. In severe cases, the intracranial pressure is even higher and brain herniation may occur.

8. Digestive system symptoms

Children suffer from decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal distension. In severe cases, the vomitus is coffee-colored or there is blood in the stool, bowel sounds disappear, and they suffer from toxic intestinal paralysis and toxic hepatitis.

(5) Acidosis can occur as metabolic acidosis, respiratory acidosis, or mixed acidosis.