​Pay attention to preventing mycoplasma infection in children in winter

Many parents will find that their children have symptoms of constant coughing and fever that are difficult to cure after the winter. At this time, when our usual treatment methods don’t work. You should pay attention to whether your child is suffering from mycoplasma infection. You should know that winter is the peak season for mycoplasma infection to occur most frequently. So what exactly is mycoplasma infection and how to prevent it? Let me tell you about it today.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a pathogenic microorganism whose size is between bacteria and viruses. Mycoplasma infection is mainly transmitted through respiratory droplets. It can occur all year round, but is more common in autumn and winter.

The clinical manifestations of mycoplasma infection are diverse, mainly causing upper respiratory tract infection, nasopharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. Most children have a slow onset, with frequent temperature changes, low fever or no fever, and the fever lasts for 1 to 3 weeks. The cough is dry at first, and then turns into a stubborn and severe cough or a whooping cough-like spasmodic cough. There are no obvious lung signs, but significant chest X-ray changes. The course of the disease is 2 to 3 weeks or even several months.

A small number of children may also present with multi-system and multi-organ extrapulmonary complications such as aseptic meningoencephalitis, myocarditis, hemolytic anemia, hepatitis, and various skin diseases. This disease is more common in older children, but the incidence in infants and young children has increased year by year in recent years. The disease has an acute onset, severe condition, and a long course, with the main symptoms being difficulty breathing, wheezing, and wheezing. If your child has these symptoms, he or she should receive prompt treatment.

As parents, we should add or remove clothes for children in time according to daily temperature changes. They should eat a high-calorie, high-protein, low-fat diet and drink plenty of water. Functional foods that enhance immunity can be added, such as bovine colostrum rich in IgG, IgM, and IgA, to fully meet the energy needs of the baby's body and prevent mycoplasma infection and disease.

After reading the above article, parents should send their children to the hospital for examination in time if they show the above symptoms. Don't think that your child just has a common cold, as that can easily delay his or her illness.