Symptoms of intrauterine pneumonia in infants

When taking care of their babies, new mothers must be comprehensive. Babies have relatively poor immunity and are easily affected by the outside world. Therefore, they must be careful in all aspects of caring for their babies to avoid causing physical illness and causing harm to the baby. Intrauterine pneumonia is very common in babies, but mothers do not understand the symptoms of such a disease.

Symptoms of intrauterine pneumonia in infants:

The clinical manifestations vary greatly, and most of the symptoms occur within 24 hours after birth. There is often a history of asphyxia at birth, and after resuscitation, there may be shortness of breath, groaning, difficulty breathing, and unstable body temperature. Poor response. Auscultation of the lungs may reveal rough, reduced or moist rales. In severe cases, respiratory failure, heart failure, shock or persistent pulmonary hypertension may occur. Patients with hematogenous infection often lack pulmonary signs and instead present with multi-system involvement such as jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly and meningitis.

There are also cases where the disease progresses to chronic pneumonia several months after birth. The peripheral blood white blood cell count is mostly normal, but may also decrease or increase. Serum IgM and IgA are higher than those of normal newborns. Cord blood IgM>200mg/L or increased specific IgM are of diagnostic significance for prenatal infection. Chest X-rays often show changes of interstitial pneumonia, while bacterial pneumonia shows manifestations of bronchopneumonia. Check the gastric juice 1 to 2 hours after birth, and you will see pus cells and sometimes bacteria. Bacterial culture of external auditory canal pharyngeal swab may be positive.

After understanding the symptoms of intrauterine pneumonia in infants, when babies have such conditions, mothers need to send their babies to the hospital in time to treat such diseases in infants. It is necessary to choose suitable medicines for babies so that it will not hinder the growth of the baby. Mothers should also pay attention to this.