Symptoms and manifestations of pneumonia in young children

  The main symptoms of pneumonia are fever, cough, shortness of breath, mental agitation, mild diarrhea or vomiting, etc. The child has a recent history of cold and flu. If the following symptoms and manifestations occur, consider pneumonia: 1. The child may have a normal temperature during the day and then start to develop a fever in the evening. There is no fixed pattern of fever in children with pneumonia, but most children with pneumonia have a high fever that does not go away.  2. The child has a frequent cough, which in the early stages may appear to be an irritating dry cough.  3. Pneumonia in young children mostly occurs after fever and cough. The child exhibits dyspnea, often with purple coloring around the mouth and nose and lips, and accelerated breathing, up to 40-80 times per minute.  4, lung rales, the doctor with a stethoscope in the child’s lungs can hear a medium and fine wet rales, X-ray examination will have pathological changes.  If a young child has any of the above conditions, he or she needs to go to the hospital as soon as possible. It is best not to use medication blindly without the guidance of a professional doctor first to avoid covering up the condition. If your child has a high fever, you can use physical cooling or fever patches to avoid febrile convulsions on the way to the hospital.