There is a disease that appears in the cloak of a common cold, and after lying dormant for a while, it is fast and accurate, and the attack is extremely dangerous. If you think of it as a common cold, it could kill your baby.
This kind of fierce horn is acute laryngitis. Let's take a look at the report:
When the 7-year-old boy first had a slight cough, his parents thought it was a common cold, and as a result, the cough was violent and unusual in the middle of the night, and his face was pale and breathing difficult, and he was woken up by his parents after the symptoms became more and more serious, and he was quickly sent to the hospital, and the diagnosis was severe acute laryngitis, and he was relieved of his life after emergency rescue.
Source: Yanbian News Network http://www.yanjinews.com/html/news/chinanews/2014/1127/56641.html
Parents who treat acute laryngitis as a cold are not alone, there are similar news all over the country, fortunately, there are no dangers.
Acute laryngitis and its harmfulness:
Acute laryngitis, a component of acute upper respiratory tract infections, is also an acute inflammation of the laryngeal mucosa that babies are prone to.
Focus: Once the attack is fiercer than the tiger.
Because the baby's laryngeal cavity is narrow, the cartilage is weak, and the blood vessels and lymph nodes in the mucous membrane are abundant, it is easy to cause laryngeal edema, coupled with their cough function is not strong, the secretions are not coughed out, and it is easy to have laryngeal spasm or complicated laryngeal obstruction.
The colder the weather, the easier it is to attack acute laryngitis, and most of them occur at night, catching parents off guard, so there are 6 months to 3 years old babies at home, pay more attention.
So why do you get acute laryngitis?
There are many reasons, such as the common cold, rhinitis, flu, measles, chickenpox, etc., but most of them are viral infections, and a small part are bacterial infections.
Symptoms of acute laryngitis:
As mentioned earlier, acute laryngitis is easily confused with the common cold, especially when trapped in a dog at night, the difficulty of distinguishing is +1.
It is true that the initial fever and cough are indeed very similar to the common cold, but after the inflammation worsens, there will be symptoms:
1. Low-grade fever is mainly medium-sized, and rarely high fever.
2, cough stiff like a puppy "empty", and mostly dry cough, hoarse voice or even unable to speak.
3. The baby will suddenly wake up, and when inhaling, the upper sternal fossa, the supraclavicular fossa and the intercostal space will be sunken, there are signs of hypoxia, and it will be slightly relieved after coughing up secretions.
4, will also beat faster, lips bruised, nose wing incitement or even mental atrophy, pulse weakening, indicating that the condition will be more critical, to go to the hospital immediately, otherwise it is easy to coma or even death.
5. Parents can also gently open the baby's mouth to see if the pharyngeal mucosa is red and swollen.
A figure teaches you to distinguish between acute laryngitis and the common cold
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common cold
Acute laryngitis
The coughing sounds normal
Coughing sounds like a puppy
There is no difference between night and day
Aggravated at night
Normal breathing
Symptoms are obvious on inhale, and it is easy to breathe shortly and have difficulty breathing
The voice is rarely hoarse
The voice will soon be hoarse or even unable to speak
Treatment and prevention of acute laryngitis:
The key to treatment is timely, as long as you find something wrong to run to the hospital, generally within a few hours can control the condition, 1-2 days will be significantly better.
If it is caused by a bacterial infection, antibiotics will also be used, and babies with breathing difficulties will also use hormones. In short, parents do not smell the discoloration, everything can follow the doctor's advice.
After returning home from the hospital, parents should take care of their babies like this:
Reduce the indoor temperature appropriately and cool down slightly than usual.
Keep the room ventilated.
Open a humidifier or end a basin of water to increase the humidity of the room.
Let your baby rest more, cry less, drink more water, and eat liquid food first.
No matter how sleepy you are at night, you should also work hard and pay more attention to the baby's breathing.
Of course, not getting sick is the best, so prevention is more important:
Exercise appropriately to enhance physical fitness and reduce the probability of colds.
Increase or decrease clothing in a timely manner according to weather changes.
Keep air circulation at home and take your baby less to public places where there is no air circulation and there are many people.
If your baby has a cold, the pillow can be slightly raised.
In short, although acute laryngitis is terrible, as long as you seek medical treatment in time and follow the doctor's instructions, the baby will be safe and will recover quickly.