Not yet full-term baby even played with the mouth spitting bubbles, parents thought the child is smart and playful, the doctor diagnosed is suffering from neonatal pneumonia. The day before yesterday, the doctor found that the baby’s mouth has a lot of small white bubbles, seem irritable, poor response, breastfeeding does not eat, body temperature of only 35.5 degrees Celsius. The young parents were puzzled, the baby did not cough and wheeze, how could it be pneumonia? Due to the imperfect development of the nervous system of newborns, poor regulation, pneumonia, early did not show a cough or other typical symptoms. In the clinic, there will be a small number of babies with pneumonia show spitting bubbles, this is because the newborn’s trachea is short and narrow, and funnel-shaped, when exhaling, the lung gas through the narrow trachea rushed out of the trachea will be the sputum in the trachea through the short respiratory tract rushed out of the mouth, the gas through the dirty sputum when the bubble is produced. Newborns central nervous system and salivary glands are still immature, saliva secretion is small, 3-4 months salivary glands began to develop, saliva secretion increased. However, at this time, the baby’s mouth is relatively shallow, swallowing ability is not well developed, lip closure and swallowing movements are not coordinated, and will not regulate the excessive saliva in the mouth, so it is easy to appear drooling and spitting bubbles. No treatment is needed and it will disappear on its own! Symptoms of Neonatal Pneumonia Newborns, especially those of small months of age, have very inconspicuous symptoms of pneumonia, usually without coughing, and with a temperature that is not elevated or even below normal! Sometimes the only thing that can be observed is the phenomenon of “spitting bubbles” or digestive symptoms such as diarrhea. From the above characteristics, if your baby has the phenomenon of spitting up bubbles, you should pay attention to it. If the baby is less than three months old, it is likely to be a sign of pneumonia; if the baby is three or four months old, it is mostly normal. To determine whether there are signs of pneumonia, you can look at your baby’s breathing, feeding, mental state, and whether there are any other abnormalities to make a closer judgment in order to further decide whether or not to see a doctor. Characteristics and treatment of pneumonia in newborns About Pneumonia My baby was not yet out of the full moon when he got pneumonia, and it took him a whole month to get well. Analyzing the reasons now, it was mainly because his father and I were inexperienced and neglected some obvious symptoms. 1, wheezing (phlegm chirping) The first symptom is wheezing, especially at night is more obvious, the baby often suffocated breathless, I had to hold him from 2:00 a.m. to sleep, because the angle of inclination will make him more comfortable, such a situation, did not last two weeks, at my insistence, finally went to the hospital. The doctor said it was pneumonia. However, it should be distinguished from congenital calcium deficiency and laryngeal asthma. 2, spitting foam neonatal period, another obvious symptom of pneumonia, is spitting foam in the mouth, very much like spitting bubbles, especially when the baby is asleep, usually the development of pneumonia to a certain extent will spit foam. Of course newborns over 3 months old are not included here because babies over 3 months old they have saliva. Begin to grow milk teeth. 3, the number of breaths Pneumonia when the baby’s breathing increased significantly, the newborn period when the baby sleeps quietly, the number of breaths do not exceed 40 times, 40-50 times need to go to the hospital for diagnosis, either the flu, or pneumonia. Newborn period of the baby with the amount of movement continues to grow, the number of breaths is also decreasing, usually to not more than 40 times, to measure, but now my little baby sleeps on weekdays, but also only 20-25 times, because he has been a year old. 4.Breathing style Deep breathing, also called abdominal breathing, in which the chest is deeply concave when breathing. 5, spitting up (spitting up water) The main manifestation of spitting up milk, inexperienced will think that the air into the stomach, and then a few days even the “water” also spit up, and then realize the seriousness of the problem, the way of vomiting is the “jet”, different from the overflow of milk. 6, listen to the sound of the stethoscope to listen to the baby’s lungs, the common cold “breath sound thick”, pneumonia “dry rhonchi” “wet rhonchi”, through the treatment to become “small and medium bubble sound” and then “small and medium bubble sound”. Small and medium-sized blistering sounds” and then improved to “thick breath sounds” and then after recovery, the sound is “no obvious abnormality”. Precautions: Pneumonia in little babies usually does not have fever or high fever, and the cough is relatively small, especially in newborns, the cough is even less obvious, they tend to swallow the phlegm into the stomach, and then excreted by the stool, so the stool will be a little thin in babies with pneumonia. I usually like to use the method of counting breaths to determine the onset of the baby. Treatment: Combination of western and eastern medicine 1. Western medicine, we need to use a sufficient amount of antibiotics, usually need to use 8-14 days, especially when listening to the sound of “thick breath sounds” and then use 2-4 days of antibiotics, to maintain treatment. 2. 2, Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine for phlegm treatment, because there is phlegm stagnation in the lungs, pneumonia is not easy to get well, usually have to feed 4-6 Chinese medicine to resolve phlegm, often placed after antibiotic treatment. At this time the first thing the baby gets up in the morning is to spit out the phlegm, a big mouthful of phlegm, when the phlegm spit out, the day will be very easy. 3, probiotics, probiotics with adjuvant therapy, in the use of antibiotics 4-7 days later, the baby will appear intestinal flora disorders of diarrhea, this time the need for probiotics with adjuvant therapy, usually taken 2-4 hours after playing antibiotics, with milk can be. Some of this is quite important, there are some babies who are not cured of pneumonia and the diarrhea starts again. Healing: Pneumonia in the neonatal period can be completely cured, basically no sequelae, recurrence within a year is also very rare, but often the mother will be due to this big illness of the baby, will be more careful to take care of the baby, but instead of playing a bad role. Carry out cold air exercise, now this season is the best, every day outdoors for more than 3 hours of play, nature is the best teacher. Insist on bathing, the baby is equally beneficial. Warm reminder: many neonatal diseases do not have special symptoms, parents who find that the usual normal performance in all aspects of the child suddenly do not cry, do not make noise, do not eat, do not move, abnormal body temperature, parents should pay attention to, and take the child to the doctor as soon as possible.