Many parents believe that pneumonia is a serious disease, and once infected with pneumonia, they need injections and infusions**, which generally take more than 1 week. In fact, like any disease, children have mild and severe pneumonia, and do not necessarily need injections and infusions, and sometimes do not necessarily need to use antibiotics**
1.Is a child's prolonged cough pneumonia?
There are many causes of cough, some infectious and some non-infectious, and cough is just a symptom of the respiratory tract. It is necessary to determine whether the cough caused by pneumonia is usually called pneumonia, which is generally infectious pneumonia, and whether pneumonia depends on the child's body temperature, mental state, cough severity, and sometimes a comprehensive analysis and judgment based on the doctor's physical examination and lung imaging examination. In fact, most prolonged coughs are not the cause of pneumonia, and coughs that are usually not caused by infectious causes are more common.
2.Is a child's cough and asthma pneumonia?
Children's cough and wheezing in infants and young children are mostly related to viral infection, and sometimes they may also be a manifestation of viral pneumonia; Or the cough and asthma caused by the virus**. Older children show cough and wheezing, and many of them are due to bronchial asthma rather than pneumonia. None of these conditions are bacterial infections, and antibiotics are not necessary if there is no clear possibility of bacterial infection; It does not require a longer period of infusion.
3.If the child has a fever for a long time, will it be pneumonia?
Fever is one of the most common symptoms of respiratory infections and does not usually "burn" into pneumonia. If your child does not have a cough, a fever alone is usually less likely to cause pneumonia. Sometimes lobar pneumonia, consolidation of the lungs, the child can just have a fever and no cough; If the fever is more than 3 days, it is necessary to check the cause of the fever, combined with the doctor's physical examination, to see if there is a need for chest x-ray.
4.Can a child's fever and cough be pneumonia?
The common cold can also be manifested as fever and cough, and the fever caused by the common cold is usually 3-5 days, most of which are fever first, and cough is present during the recovery process. If there is a cough followed by a fever; Or persistent fever and worsening cough need to be alert to the possibility of pneumonia. It is necessary to see a doctor and have lung imaging tests if necessary.
5.If a baby does not have a fever, can it be pneumonia?
Pneumonia rarely occurs in infants under 3 months of age, and if fever does, it often indicates that the pneumonia is relatively severe. At this age, if the child has a cough with phlegm, the cough gradually worsens, accompanied by a decrease in **, drowsiness, and rapid breathing, it is likely to be infected with pneumonia, and the condition of the baby changes rapidly, and the suspicion of pneumonia generally requires hospitalization for observation.
6.Is it pneumonia for a baby to spit bubbles?
For newborn babies, if there is lung disease or pneumonia, cough is rare, shortness of breath, moaning, and sometimes "blowing", when this phenomenon occurs, it will be accompanied by foaming at the mouth, and it is necessary to be highly vigilant for the possibility of pneumonia.
After the child is full moon, there may be foaming in the mouth under normal circumstances, and it is not just based on this to judge whether there is pneumonia; At this age, if there is pneumonia, there will generally be a cough, if the cough has phlegm, or the cough is deep, and each cough is a continuous cough, you need to be alert to the possibility of pneumonia.
7.Chest x-ray is bronchopneumonia, must it be pneumonia?
Your child's cough sometimes needs to be examined on x-rays, and the results of the examination report a "bronchopneumonia" finding. This is done in conjunction with the child's performance and the results of the doctor's physical examination. First, to see if the cough is caused by the infection and the severity of the cough, the doctor physically examines the lungs for "fixed crackles".
Whether the cough is caused by infection can generally be judged from whether the cough has a time pattern. If the child has a cough during the day and night, especially if the cough has phlegm, it is often infectious; If the cough is only at night, in the morning, or at a certain time during the day, it is more regular and generally not caused by pneumonia.
8.Do I need antibiotics for pneumonia?
Pneumonia is not necessarily caused by infection, and the ** of pneumonia can be biological, physical, chemical, etc. Even if the infection causes pneumonia, antibiotics are only needed if there is a bacterial, mycoplasma, chlamydia, or fungal infection. If the cause of viral infection is identified, antibiotics are not needed in most cases unless there is a bacterial infection later in the disease.
9.Do I need to be hospitalized to diagnose pneumonia**?
The purpose of infusion** is nothing more than two, one is to replenish fluids and nutrients, and the other is to use medicine. If the condition is not serious, the child is in good spirits, can eat, and it is not difficult to take oral drugs, you can take oral drugs first**, and observe the changes in the condition during the period. If symptoms do not improve within 48 hours of oral medication, infusions may be considered**.
If you are considering bacterial or mycoplasma infection and need to use antibiotics**, and your child refuses to take medication, relying solely on his own resistance, sometimes it is not easy to recover, then choosing infusion may be a helpless move.