What are the symptoms of lobar pneumonia in children?

Pneumonia is a relatively complicated disease clinically, and has different classifications depending on the condition of the disease, including lobar pneumonia. The causes of the disease are relatively complicated, mainly bacterial infection, especially streptococcal infection is an important cause. It is reported that lobar pneumonia is most likely to occur in spring and most likely to occur in children. So once a child develops lobar pneumonia, what physical manifestations will appear?

Symptoms of lobar pneumonia in children:

Once a child suffers from lobar pneumonia, parents will definitely be very anxious. As the saying goes, the pain of the child is the mother's heart. Let me introduce what are the symptoms of lobar pneumonia in children? What are the symptoms?

What are the symptoms of lobar pneumonia in children? What are the symptoms?

Lobar pneumonia refers to an inflammatory disease in which the lesions involve most or all of the lung lobes and the main manifestation is diffuse fibrin exudation in the alveoli.

Symptoms of lobar pneumonia: Lobar pneumonia is more common in winter and spring, mainly in children over 3 years old. At this time, the body's immune function, that is, the defense ability, gradually matures, which can limit the lesions to one lobe or one segment of the lung and prevent them from spreading. Generally, lobar pneumonia has an acute onset, manifested by sudden high fever, chest pain, loss of appetite, fatigue, and irritability. A small number of children may have abdominal pain, which is sometimes misdiagnosed as appendicitis. Severely ill children may experience symptoms of toxic encephalopathy, convulsions, delirium and coma, or even septic shock.

Causes of lobar pneumonia: More than 90% of lobar pneumonia is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, with types 1, 3, 7 and 2 being the most common, but type 3 being the most virulent. Streptococcus pneumoniae exists in the oral cavity and nasopharynx of normal people. It is a normal flora and does not cause disease under normal circumstances. When the seasons change or the body is exposed to cold, alcoholism, excessive fatigue or anesthesia, the resistance decreases and the defense function of the respiratory tract also weakens. Streptococcus pneumoniae can take the opportunity to invade the alveoli, grow and multiply in the alveoli, cause allergic reactions and become ill.

Once lobar pneumonia occurs in life, it is recommended to actively treat it:

For patients with mild symptoms, intramuscular injection of penicillin should be the first choice. Patients with severe or shock-type pneumonia should be given timely and sufficient intravenous drip of antibiotics, and 2-3 broad-spectrum antibiotics can be used in combination. Such as penicillin, cephalosporins, etc., strengthen support and symptomatic treatment.

For children with lobar pneumonia, the following things should be paid attention to in daily life: parents can give them more vitamins and foods that have the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. They can also take some traditional Chinese medicines that have the function of moisturizing and clearing lung heat, such as ginseng, American ginseng, yam, lily, white fungus, Sichuan fritillary, etc.

Pneumonia has an acute onset, and some cases can turn into pneumonia within a day, and some cases can even be diagnosed as pneumonia as soon as a fever occurs. Therefore, for inexperienced parents, especially during the peak influenza season, if a child has a high fever that persists for 1 to 2 days, they should go to the hospital without hesitation and never wait until the condition becomes critical before sending the child to the hospital urgently.