Many parents will mistakenly think that it is a cold in the early stage of pediatric pneumonia, and they do not pay attention to it, resulting in aggravation of the disease. In fact, it can be distinguished from the following points to determine whether it is a common cold or pneumonia.
1. Take your temperature. Pneumonia fever is mostly medium and high fever, body temperature rises rapidly, lasts for more than 3 days, and the effect of oral antipyretic drugs is maintained for a short time and is easy to repeat. Colds and fevers will be alleviated or even self-healing after 3 to 5 days, and taking antipyretic drugs will be quickly controlled.
2. Look at the mental state. When the baby has a cold, under normal circumstances, the mental state is acceptable and can play. When suffering from pneumonia, children are often irritable and crying.
3. Whether there is dyspnea. Children with colds, coughs, and wheezing are generally mild, while children with severe pneumonia often have difficulty breathing (manifested as breath holding), shortness of breath, severe cough, and cyanosis of the face and lips. Babies less than 2 months old breathe more than 60 times per minute, babies aged 2 months to 1 year old breathe more than 50 times per minute, and babies over 1 year old breathe more than 40 times per minute, all of which are shortness of breath.
4. Look at eating and sleeping. When children suffer from pneumonia, they often do not eat, do not breastfeed, and cry and are restless. The common cold is mostly to eat, drink, appetite has not changed significantly.
If your child has the symptoms related to the above pneumonia, he must seek medical treatment in time to avoid delaying the condition.