How to treat mycoplasma pneumonia in children?

Generally, children will have troubles after being infected with Mycoplasma pneumonia, because Mycoplasma infection is more serious than the common cold, so the treatment method is also more special. Many young parents do not have much knowledge in this area, which may delay your child’s treatment time. If you keep dragging it out, the condition will become more and more serious. So the following editor will introduce specific treatment methods.

1. General treatment

⑴ Respiratory tract isolation

Mycoplasma infection can cause small epidemics, and the time for children to excrete mycoplasma after becoming ill is long, up to 1 to 2 months. In infancy, the disease only presents with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, and pneumonia develops after repeated infection. At the same time, during the period of MP infection, it is easy to be infected with other viruses again, which will cause the disease to worsen and become difficult to heal. Therefore, respiratory isolation should be achieved as much as possible for sick children or children with a history of close contact to prevent reinfection and cross-infection.

⑵ Nursing

Keep the indoor air fresh and provide easily digestible, nutritious food and plenty of fluids. Maintain oral hygiene and clear respiratory tract, turn the child over, pat the back, and change body position frequently to promote the discharge of secretions. If necessary, suction the sputum appropriately to remove viscous secretions.

⑶ Oxygen therapy

For patients with severe symptoms of hypoxia or severe airway obstruction, oxygen should be given promptly. Its purpose is to increase the partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood and improve tissue hypoxia caused by hypoxemia. The method of oxygen administration is the same as that for general pneumonia.

2. Symptomatic treatment

Expectorant

The purpose is to make the sputum thinner and easier to discharge, otherwise it will increase the chance of bacterial infection. However, there are few effective expectorants. In addition to increasing turning over, patting the back, nebulization, and suctioning sputum, you can choose expectorants such as Bisuoping and Tanyijing.

In addition to the above methods, if necessary, you can also give your child some antibiotics, which can also play a good therapeutic role and is also very helpful in preventing mycoplasma pneumonia. However, you must not take too much, otherwise it is very likely to cause the body to produce antibodies, which will be useless next time you encounter similar problems.