Patient's question:
What are the simple ways to determine if a newborn has pneumonia? The child has a persistent fever, coughing, and runny nose, and there is a concern that it may develop into pneumonia. What should be done? Seeking medical guidance?Doctor's answer:
Cough can occur clinically in neonatal pneumonia. Clinical symptoms, such as fever, shortness of breath, milk choking, and foaming at the mouth. The cough reflex in newborns has not yet fully developed, chest development is relatively incomplete, respiratory muscle weakness, so cough is rarely seen during illness, respiratory movements are very shallow, symptoms lack specificity, and lung rales cannot be heard, unable to fever or high fever or subnormal temperature, etc. Difficulty breathing is only manifested as apnea, irregular breathing, or tachypnea, and bluish skin appears when hypoxia is severe. General characteristics of diseases with upper respiratory tract infection before or with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection,、、、、、、、、、、、