What causes recurrent respiratory infections in children?

Today, the editor will take you to understand the causes of recurrent respiratory tract infections in children. Recurrent respiratory tract infections in children are very common, which is very worrying for parents. Let’s take a look at what recurrent respiratory tract infections in children are. So what are the causes of the disease? Let’s find out together.

Recurrent respiratory tract infections in children refer to infants and young children under 3 years old who have repeated respiratory tract infections more than 7 times a year or lower respiratory tract infections more than 3 times a year. Its causes include:

(1) Children are born with poor physical constitution, such as low birth weight babies, premature babies, twins, multiple fetuses and deformed babies.

(2) Problems that occur during the birthing process in children, such as asphyxiation and aspiration pneumonia caused by difficult labor.

(3) Illnesses in the neonatal period affect the physical constitution, such as neonatal sepsis, neonatal pneumonia, enteritis and other infectious diseases.

(4) Caused by improper feeding during infancy, such as lack of breast milk or insufficient breast milk, unreasonable artificial feeding, which causes indigestion, spleen and stomach disharmony and even malnutrition since childhood. Or rickets, iron deficiency anemia, etc. may be caused by calcium deficiency, iron deficiency, zinc deficiency, etc.

(5) Due to the physiological and anatomical characteristics of infants and young children, for example, the respiratory and digestive tracts are not fully developed, the immune organs are not fully developed, and there is not enough disease resistance, so they are very susceptible to diseases.

(6) Caused by environmental factors, such as sudden changes in weather, sudden changes in temperature. Children have poor tolerance to cold and heat, and they do not add clothes in time, which causes colds.

(7) Caused by air pollution. Children live in cities where the atmosphere is often polluted by car exhaust. They also live in smoking families. The air polluted by cigarettes puts children in conditions of passive smoking, and their low respiratory immune function makes them prone to coughing and infection. Another type of contamination is that children live with adults or children who have colds or tracheitis, and the germs are directly inhaled through the air, causing cross infection. Children are more likely to be infected, especially when the direct supervisor of the child has a respiratory disease.

(8) Caused by poor management. Not many children in the early childhood period can dress and undress by themselves. In areas with large temperature differences between indoor and outdoor areas, they should pay more attention to dressing and undressing properly. Children who are very active will sweat a lot, so they should replenish water in time and wipe off the sweat. They should not let the sweat dry up due to its own temperature, as this will make them more likely to get sick. In addition, every child has a different physique. Some are afraid of heat, some are afraid of cold, some like to drink cold water, and some like to drink hot water. We must strengthen management at all times according to the child's physique to prevent him or her from getting sick.

(9) Caused by psychological factors. Young children may also be easily maladjusted and become ill if their environment changes. For example, new children entering kindergarten are prone to illness, or if their nanny changes. Children may also become emotionally tense after being beaten or scolded by adults, which can also cause illness. Therefore, it is also very important to create a happy family atmosphere for children.

From the above, we can know that there are many reasons for recurrent respiratory tract infections in children, so there are many aspects that parents need to pay attention to, not just one aspect. If you find that your child suffers from recurrent respiratory tract infections, you should seek medical attention immediately. The editor hopes that this article will be helpful to parents. I also hope that children suffering from recurrent respiratory tract infections in children will recover soon!