Patient's question:
My child is 2 years old. Lately, he has been experiencing frequent sore throat and continuous coughing, which gets particularly severe at night. Previously, his health condition was quite good. After checking at the hospital, it was diagnosed as pneumonia. How should pediatric pneumonia be treated effectively?Doctor's answer:
How to treat pediatric pneumonia is a question that this mother does not need to worry too much about. Pediatric pneumonia refers to lung inflammation caused by different pathogens or other factors. Most pneumonia is caused by the spread of acute upper respiratory tract infection or bronchitis, or it follows respiratory infectious diseases such as measles. The common pathogens of pneumonia are bacteria (e.g., Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli) and viruses (e.g., parainfluenza virus, influenza virus, adenovirus). Additionally, some children with pneumonia develop secondary bacterial infections on the basis of viral infections, which is known as "mixed pneumonia." In recent years, due to the excessive and indiscriminate use of antibiotics, leading to microbial imbalance, pneumonia caused by drug-resistant strains such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and fungi has been continuously increasing.