What are the early symptoms of pneumonia in infants? Pneumonia can cause significant harm to young children, so it is important to seek early treatment. Understanding the early symptoms of infant pneumonia is essential for timely detection and appropriate treatment.
1. Breathe quickly
The normal respiratory rate of newborns is about 40 times per minute, but in newborns with pneumonia, the respiratory rate can increase to over 60 times per minute. Newborns have small lung capacity, making it difficult to increase ventilation by deepening the breathing amplitude. Therefore, after the appearance of pulmonary lesions, the only way to increase ventilation is to increase the respiratory rate. Therefore, rapid breathing is the most common clinical manifestation of neonatal pneumonia.
2. Blue Purple
Children with pneumonia may have cyanosis around their mouth, while severe cases may have cyanosis on their lips, toenail beds, head, face, and entire body. cyanosis is a manifestation of hypoxia.
3. Coughing
Newborns with amniotic fluid aspiration pneumonia, meconium aspiration pneumonia, and intrauterine infection pneumonia often do not have respiratory symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, and cough. Postnatal infectious pneumonia is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract, with relatively more respiratory symptoms, including coughing during breastfeeding, single cough, and brief cough.
4. Foaming at the mouth
Oral foaming is one of the characteristics of neonatal pneumonia, and foaming mainly comes from tracheal secretions.
5. Fever
Most newborns with pneumonia do not have a fever, and even if they do, their body temperature is usually low, lasting for 2-3 days and rarely exceeding a week. Severe cases sometimes not only do not have a fever, but only show a lack of temperature rise.
6. Other symptoms
Some children may have poor breastfeeding, weak mental state, and digestive symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting.
After a clear understanding of the early symptoms of infantile pneumonia, there is an impression in the brain. This way, when the baby experiences these symptoms, they can be treated early.
