Newborns feel shortness of breath may be physiological phenomenon, pneumonia, congenital heart disease, etc., need to be targeted to take the general treatment of medication, surgical treatment, and so on.
1. physiological phenomenon: due to the age of newborns, respiratory center is not stable, immature development of respiratory organs, its own respiratory rate is significantly higher than that of adults, generally speaking, the respiratory rate per minute <50 times, more is the normal situation, there will be a transient phenomenon of shortness of breath, do not need special treatment.
2. Pneumonia: often due to acute pneumonia caused by shortness of breath, the main anti-infective treatment, mostly for bacterial infections, can take cephalosporin antibiotic drugs, such as cefixime. If it is caused by viral infection, it can be nebulized, rehydration, sputum aspiration, ventilator-assisted ventilation and other symptomatic supportive treatment under the guidance of the doctor.
3. Congenital heart disease: congenital heart disease, if the heart defect is large, can also make the newborn shortness of breath symptoms, in this case, you can improve the heart ultrasound to assist in the diagnosis, if the defect is large, the symptoms are obvious or the combination of heart failure and other complications, if necessary, can be limited to interventional or surgical treatment.
Newborns feel shortness of breath, should promptly go to the hospital, identify the cause of targeted treatment or treatment, if the use of drugs must be guided by a doctor.