Identify Pneumonia In Babies Under 6 Months Old

Question: My son, 24 days old, had pneumonia and was hospitalized for treatment. When the doctor gave X-rays, examined and diagnosed pneumonia, I could not believe my ears. Because 2 days before the baby runny nose, coughing but still coughing, not showing signs of difficulty breathing.
Previously, my oldest son had pneumonia when he was 3 years old and I could see signs of difficulty breathing like coughing a lot, fever and hearing the back "clear" of sputum and "hiss" clearly. Please tell the doctor, are there any signs to identify early infant pneumonia? Is my son's condition progressing too quickly? (Hoang Hoa, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi)

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Reply
Unlike pneumonia in older children with the typical manifestations of high fever, coughing a lot, hearing the back can see a "whooping" sound, in babies under 6 months old, pneumonia develops very quickly and the signs are often not typical shaped, easily overlooked.
For children under 6 months of age, signs of fever, cough are not important signs. In fact, many babies are taken to the hospital by their parents, even though they do not have a fever (only a little warm in the head), do not cough much, but they have very serious pneumonia complications
In these cases, only by hearing the lungs, the doctor can definitely diagnose pneumonia and X-rays will easily see the image of the inflamed lungs.



Therefore, for children under 6 months old and newborn babies, parents need to pay attention to 3 basic signs to determine the status of the baby's illness, promptly bring it to the hospital. That is monitoring the process of feeding, when the baby sleeps and how the baby breathes.
If your baby suddenly feels uncomfortable, eats less than usual, cries while breastfeeding and then has an abnormal sleep (sleeps more than usual or less than usual, fussy), parents need to monitor closely . At this time, in addition to observing the baby's breathing through the nose (when breathing, the two wings of the nose swell up and down clearly), you should lift up the shirt to observe the chest.
Seeing your baby breathe faster, chest is more concave than usual, parents need to take the baby to see an early doctor because the disease may have advanced. In young children, pneumonia progress very quickly, so the early detection and taking of children for examination is extremely important, preventing unfortunate complications that may occur.

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