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Why does darling spring get pneumonia easily?

Pneumonia, for children, is a great danger, serious may endanger the life of the baby. Children's resistance is low, it is easy to be infected with upper respiratory tract disease, thus inducing pneumonia. And air pollution is more stimulating the baby's young lungs, aggravating the child's condition. If the treatment of infantile pneumonia is not thorough, it is easy to relapse, cause a variety of severe complications, seriously affect the growth and development of children, parents must pay attention to it!

Pneumonia is strictly defined as any inflammatory disease involving the lungs (including pleura, connective tissue, airway, alveoli and vascular structures).

Why is pneumonia common in children?

The trend and conclusion of etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in children are as follows

Pneumococcus is the most common bacterial pathogen in children with pneumonia.

Simple viral infection accounts for 14% - 35% of children's pneumonia, accounting for 50% of children's cases. Most viral pneumonia is preceded by a viral upper respiratory tract infection. The common viruses are respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and parainfluenza virus and adenovirus.

The virus is more often found in children under 5 years of age.

Mycoplasma and chlamydia pneumonia are more common in children over 5 years old.

Treatment of pneumonia

Viral pneumonia: good rest and treatment of fever, in addition to the above two points, there is no other good prescription. Antibiotics are not effective in bacterial infection. Viral pneumonia will recover itself in a few days.

Cough is a physiological reaction, which has the function of clearing respiratory secretions. Cough suppression may cause retention of secretions, so antitussive drugs are usually not required.

How to prevent pneumonia?

Pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccination

Prevention in infancy:

Everyone should wash their hands before touching or holding the baby

Reduce close contact with your baby if family members have runny nose or other discomfort

If the elder brother or sister has cold symptoms, reduce the time with the baby

Avoid taking your baby to densely populated areas

Avoid smoking around your baby

Must pneumonia be vaccinated?

Q: What is the seven valent pneumonia vaccine? Does my baby need to be vaccinated?

A: Heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, used for active immunization of infants, can prevent invasive diseases caused by 7 serotypes of pneumococci.

Pneumococcal diseases are a series of diseases caused by pneumococcal infection, which spread among people through close contact.

Pneumococcal infection can cause otitis media, but also lead to the following more serious infections:

● pneumonia

● bacteremia

Meningitis

Pneumococcal meningitis can lead to deafness and brain damage, and even death. The mortality of children is as high as 1 / 10.

The risk of pneumococcal disease is very high in children under 2 years old. In recent years, due to antibiotic resistance, drug treatment is not as effective as before. Therefore, it is particularly important for children under 2 years old to be vaccinated against pneumonia.