How to identify pneumonia in children?

I believe that everyone is particularly familiar with neonatal pneumonia. This disease is a particularly common disease. Many children will get the disease after birth. The harm of this disease to the frail newborns cannot be underestimated. Some diseases are easily confused with this disease. Let us take a look at how to identify pediatric pneumonia.

1. Bronchiolitis

The main symptom is wheezing and shortness of breath. Widespread wheezing and fine moist rales can be heard in both lungs. Severely ill children have obvious hypoxia, and X-rays only show increased translucency in both lungs, descent of the diaphragm, and transient emphysema changes. A few children have a few spotty shadows.

2. Acute miliary tuberculosis

It is very similar to bronchopneumonia and should be differentiated based on history of contact with tuberculosis, clinical symptoms, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, positive tuberculin test, detection of tuberculosis bacteria in sputum or gastric lavage fluid, and X-ray follow-up observation.

3. Bronchitis

Systemic symptoms are mild, generally without dyspnea or hypoxia. Lung rales are not fixed and often disappear with coughing or changes in body position.

4. Bronchial foreign body

There is often a history of foreign body aspiration or choking. Tracheal slapping sounds heard during auscultation can help with the diagnosis, but the diagnosis is confirmed by fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

5. Caseous pneumonia

X-ray examination can show dense consolidation in a lung segment or even a large part of a lung lobe. The outline becomes blurred, and usually brighter liquefied areas or even translucent cavities can be seen.

Through the above understanding of the relevant knowledge about neonatal pneumonia, we already know very clearly which diseases are confused with this disease. The harm caused by the occurrence of this disease to children cannot be underestimated. We must pay attention to it and do more preventive work in our daily life to reduce the occurrence of this disease.