Are there any smokers in your family? Husband? Grandfather? Grandfather? Or the next door neighbor...
The first reaction to smelling smoke is not only pungent, but also non-stop coughing!
If it's really a choked cough, there's really no need to worry about it. This cough is generally not persistent and should be associated with the presence of soot.
But if the baby has the following coughing sounds, you must be vigilant, and it is most likely to be sick!
First of all, we can first judge whether it is [bronchitis] from the sound of coughing:
Shortness of breath when the baby coughs and is accompanied by a moan, a sound like this:
Due to the large amount of phlegm, the sound of purring is sometimes heard.
Mild sputum sounds may not be pathological, but sudden or gradually aggravated cough accompanied by sputum sounds, it should be noted that it may be pneumonia or bronchiolitis, bronchitis caused, parents should not take it lightly.
There are also some coughing sounds that also need to be vigilant:
The dog barks and coughs
Coughing sounds like this are likely to be caused by acute laryngitis.
Persistent cough with stridor
This could be a cough caused by asthma!
However, it should be noted that the sound that can be heard directly by the ear is not necessary for asthma diagnosis, and frequent and persistent coughing itself may also be an atypical manifestation of asthma.
The cough is violent and hoarse, which does not last more than a week and tends to worsen
This may be suffering from whooping cough, which is prone to high incidence during infancy and young children.
In addition to coughing, you can also judge whether the baby is targeted by bronchitis by breathing rate, so how to judge?
According to the WHO Programme for the Prevention and Control of Acute Respiratory Infections in Children, the criteria for shortness of breath in children are:
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How exactly should it be counted?
◆ When the child is quiet and has a fever, open the child's clothes and count the ups and downs of the chest or abdomen (the baby is mainly abdominal breathing) and count them together.
Counting needs to exclude emotional and environmental distractions, and frequent irritating coughs do not need to count the number of breaths.
If the above criteria are exceeded, it is necessary to seek prompt medical attention, because tracheitis without any complications is often not aggravated to the point of causing respiratory acceleration.
Doctors perform auscultation of the lungs, and further tests such as blood routine plus CRP, etiology, and x-rays are selected as appropriate.
When there is damage to other organs, abdominal ultrasound, electrocardiogram, and even chest and lung CT are also required.
In addition, it should be noted that you do not take antibiotics casually, and do not change drugs frequently.
Taking antibiotics depends on whether there is a predisposition to bacterial or atypical pathogen infection.
Because antibiotics themselves may cause allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, fungal infections, etc. Therefore, the application of indications can have more advantages than disadvantages.
If you have bronchitis:
How to care?
How to calculate well?
Can the doctor prescribe antibiotics for the baby to eat?
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These questions that everyone is most concerned about will be answered one by one by today!
1
How do you tell if it's bronchitis or pneumonia at home?
It is not recommended to judge for yourself at home, and if in doubt you must seek medical attention in time.
Both diseases require tests in the hospital, such as chest x-ray or CT of the lungs, to confirm the diagnosis.
2
Do you want to atomize?
For example, viral bronchitis without wheezing or coughing is not severe does not require nebulization.
In general, frequent coughing, wheezing, poor conventional treatment effect, sputum should not be coughed out, etc., nebulization treatment is considered. Whether atomization is required, it is recommended to listen to the advice of a doctor.
3
5 months baby, the doctor prescribed antibiotics, can you eat?
Even in newborns, a definitively diagnosed infection requires antibiotics, so age itself has little to do with whether it is used or not.
And many antibiotics have five-month-old children's usage and dosage, and parents do not need to worry too much about the antibiotics themselves. It is okay to use it in reasonable usage according to the instructions.
However, clinically, it is not always possible to make a clear diagnosis at the first time, and this is the place where you should communicate with your doctor.
4
The 10-month-old baby's bronchial inflammation is repeated, and the atomization effect is not ideal. How should it be treated and cared for?
Persistent fever indicates that the inflammation is not completely controlled, so the first thing to consider is not how to quickly stop coughing, but the question of whether the current treatment is effective or ineffective.
If the fever improves, but the fever is still intermittent, then at this time it is possible to continue treatment and continue to observe, because the improvement of respiratory symptoms is a process, and the smaller it is, the more so. Paying more attention to care during treatment can accelerate the rate at which symptoms improve.
For acute bronchitis, the nursing first let the baby rest well, reduce calorie consumption, keep the family environment good, pay attention to warm and ventilation to increase the air humidity appropriately.
The baby also needs to change the recumbent position frequently, so that the respiratory secretions are easy to discharge, pay attention to feeding more water, if there is a lack of water, the sputum is thicker and less easy to discharge.
For persistent fever and increasingly severe cough, it means that current anti-infective therapy may not be effective and require active follow-up and consideration of whether to replace or upgrade treatment.
5
How to judge that bronchitis is better?
During the recovery of bronchitis, the sputum gradually thins out, and the cough gradually disappears, which may take 2 to 3 weeks.
Note that respiratory tract infections can be recurrent, so more attention should be paid to protection during recovery, because the respiratory mucosa has not been repaired during this period, and cross-infection is more likely to occur.
6
Every time your baby catches a cold, it will develop bronchitis, how to prevent it? What medicine is good to take?
The first is to pay attention to avoiding upper respiratory tract infections and do a good job of vaccination against common pathogen vaccines such as influenza vaccines.
Second, prevent inhalation of irritating or allergy-prone substances, such as dust, smoke, irritating gases, and even excessively cold air.
It is also necessary to actively treat and correct certain diseases in infancy and early childhood, such as malnutrition, anemia, asthma and chronic rhinitis.
During respiratory disease epidemics, avoid going to crowded public places to avoid cross-infection. Finally, keep the indoor air fresh and avoid the undesirable stimulation of harmful gases such as smoke.
7
Why do I get bronchopneumonia after 13-valent pneumonia?
Bronchopneumonia can also be caused by viruses, mycoplasma, etc., 13-valent pneumonia vaccine mainly prevents bacteria, thirteen common serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, and there is no protection against pneumonia caused by pathogen infection outside this.
So even if the pneumonia vaccine does not prevent all bacterial infections, there will still be a possibility of bronchitis, reducing the probability and severity of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections in those 13 serotypes.