Treatment of children with pneumonia

If the child develops pneumonia, home care plays a crucial role in the prognosis of the disease in addition to medication. Parents should do the following care:

(1) Keep a quiet, clean environment and ensure that children have a rest.

If there are always many elders and friends around the child, on the one hand, because people are noisy, it is not conducive to the rest of the children. At the same time, people's exhaled carbon dioxide accumulates. The dirty air is not conducive to physical rehabilitation. Therefore, the indoor staff should not be too much. Visitors should not stay too long. The room should be regularly ventilated and ventilated to allow air circulation.

(2) should pay attention to reasonable nutrition and to add enough water.

Children with pneumonia are often accompanied by high fever, poor appetite, and reluctance to eat, so the diet should be light, easy to digest, while ensuring a certain quality protein. With fever, give a liquid diet (such as human milk, milk, rice soup, egg soup, beef soup, vegetable soup, fruit juice, etc.), and add a semi-liquid food (such as porridge, noodles, cakes, etc.) after fever. ) Because children with pneumonia evaporate more than usual, they must add appropriate amounts of sugar and salt water.

(3) Strengthen skin and oral care.

In particular, sweaty children should promptly change their wet clothes and wipe them with a hot towel. This is good for skin heat dissipation and resistance to germs. Children with phlegm should try to make sputum cough up and prevent the sputum from discharging and affect the recovery of pneumonia. In the case of illness, parents should often pick up children, gently pat on the back, bedridden children should stand up, so that it can make sputum easy to cough, and help recovery.

(4) Keep the airway open.

In children with pneumonia, gas exchange in the alveoli is limited and the body has varying degrees of hypoxia. If the nasal cavity is obstructed or there is a large amount of sputum in the trachea and bronchus, the inhalation of air will be affected and the lack of oxygen will increase. Therefore, parents should remove nasal secretions and sucking in order to keep the airway open. Indoors to maintain a certain degree of humidity, to avoid air drying, is conducive to sputum sputum.

(5) Take medications and injections on time so as not to affect the efficacy.

Due to the poor ability of children to resist disease, especially if the baby is easily relapsed, when the parents found that the children breathe quickly, breathing difficulties, around the mouth blue, pale or cyanosis, indicating that children have hypoxia, must be rescued as soon as possible.