How to treat pneumonia in infants

There are two types of pneumonia in infants, one is mild pneumonia and the other is severe pneumonia. In mild pneumonia, the child has fever and cough, which may be accompanied by mild wheezing and no respiratory distress. For severe pneumonia, most children have dyspnea, shortness of breath, depression, and a chest X-ray or chest CT, suggesting that the pneumonia is more serious, and the treatment plan differs in different cases. 1. General treatment: Keep the air in the ward circulating, the room temperature should be maintained at about 20°C and the humidity at about 60%. Diet can be given easy to digest, nutritious, high-quality protein food. Pay attention to drink more warm water, turn and pat the back regularly to facilitate the discharge of sputum. 2.Control infection: select antibiotics that are sensitive to pathogenic bacteria for treatment according to clinical and laboratory information. 3, symptomatic treatment: if the child has fever, carry out antipyretic, physical cooling of the body temperature below 38.5 degrees, above the oral antipyretic drugs can be taken. If you have a lack of oxygen, give oxygen; if you can’t cough up phlegm, you can take nebulization, or take oral sugar cough medicine. Infant pneumonia is mainly to effectively control inflammation, improve pulmonary ventilation, avoid complications, usually family members pay attention to care to promote physical recovery.