Neonatal pneumonia is categorized into aspiration pneumonia and infectious pneumonia. Due to the young age of newborns and rapid changes in their condition, self-testing is not recommended. If your baby has the following symptoms, it is recommended that you seek medical attention in a timely manner, and under the guidance of a doctor, the combination of your child’s medical history, clinical symptoms, physical examination and auxiliary examination will help to make a definitive diagnosis.
1. Medical history: Newborns with aspiration pneumonia may have experienced intrauterine distress, asphyxia after birth, choking due to improper feeding, or congenital digestive malformations. Newborns with infectious pneumonia may have had premature rupture of membranes, contaminated amniotic fluid, or tracheal intubation, as well as a history of respiratory infections in the mother or other parents.
2. Clinical symptoms: Children with aspiration pneumonia are characterized by cyanosis or pallor, foamy mouth, shortness of breath, dyspnea, and fever. In addition, it can be accompanied by shallow respiration, nasal fluttering, nodding respiration, and the three concave signs.
3. Physical examination: coarse and fine wet rales can be heard on lung auscultation.
4. Auxiliary examination: Pathogen detection, through the detection of pathogenic bacteria to make a preliminary diagnosis. Lung x-ray and ultrasonography can also be used to further assist in the diagnosis.
Clinical manifestations of neonatal pneumonia are sometimes atypical, and it is not scientific to judge by one symptom. If any of the above symptoms occur, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for early and regular treatment.