Pneumonia

What you need to know about the mother of pneumonia, ie inflammation of the lungs.

Well, firstly, that just because it does not arise. It is always to blame germs, most commonly - bacteria.

In very young pneumonia can occur after birth when the newborn "swallowed water. But such cases are still in the hospital monitor and treat pediatricians.

More often, mothers begin to worry when the child is coughing and acute respiratory disease coughs. This is actually a cause for excitement and reason to call the doctor at home.

Sometimes, after acute respiratory diseases, ie colds, the child may have pneumonia. This is one of the most frequent complications of acute respiratory disease. But do not think that "common complication" means that every second cold ends pneumonia. Not at all. But if a student has the temperature and cough, the first thing about what to think - is to call the doctor that he would listen to the lungs and excluded or confirmed the suspicion of pneumonia. And if the probability of pneumonia is high - antibiotics.

Pneumonia occurs when the child's body, weakened by the struggle with the cold virus gliding bacteria. Like viruses, they fall into the child through the nose and mouth, reaching the bronchi, causing bronchitis, down below and ... begins pneumonia.

And what ... When the first symptoms of a cold to worry and experience, not whether the pneumonia? ..

No. While the first days of illness are, even if you have a cough, and even more so - snot, even if the temperature is above 38 degrees, to think of pneumonia early. But at 3-4 day illness with cough and high fever should call a doctor, because the third symptom of pneumonia is a specific change in the sound "easy listening". To hear this may only doctor. So the doctor, if it considers it necessary, may be to tap the chest to detect the same change in sound, and can send a child on chest x-ray that would have on the image to see whether signs of pneumonia.

So, let's say, the parents are out of luck, and the doctor had diagnosed pneumonia. Do not despair. Modern drugs quite easily cope with this scourge. However, these medications do not nothing but does not like many parents antibiotics. But there was nowhere to go. The bacteria does not kill anything else. And if the virus can be treated safely ARI grandmother's recipe and traditional means, with pneumonia a number does not pass. The longer the not prescribe antibiotics, the harder and longer will have to treat pneumonia.

Antibiotic appointed not less than 5 days, usually for 7-10 days. Discontinue antibiotic can not under any circumstances - be sure to drink away the entire course. Even if the child 2-3 days of antibiotic therapy has become much better. It says only that the antibiotic is selected correctly and the treatment is successful ... but to drink the medicine must have as many days as appointed physician. Otherwise, all may come to nothing.

But if on the third day of antibiotic temperature continues to stay above 38, it must again call the doctor. Since this is one indication that the selected antibiotic has no effect on the bacteria that caused the disease. In this case, the doctor cancels one antibiotic and replaces it with another.

Sometimes, the doctor decides to appoint an antibiotic for 3-4 days ARI, if the temperature goes above 38 and a cough, even if not "heard" through phonendoscope pneumonia. Ie antibiotics to prevent pneumonia.

In this case you can not blame the doctor or in excessive reassurance nor superfluous antibiotic. Pneumonia is developing quite rapidly and the body in a weakened virus, bacteria, meeting no resistance, can multiply during the night, per day. And, today, the doctor listened and heard no pneumonia, and tomorrow she appeared ... A doctor then and there to listen. And while his parents called, until the doctor comes, while my father to go to the drugstore and buy antibiotic ... Pneumonia is luxuriant bloom color. So it turns out that sometimes "should strangle it in the bud". To do this, and sometimes a doctor appointed by antibiotic prophylaxis.

In parallel with the antibiotic to avoid side effects from its use, the physician may designate an antifungal medication, usually nystatin, and another product containing bifidus-and lacto-bacteria, called probiotics, and are now in a wide choice of pharmacies, as well as drug protivogistaminovy , to reduce inflammation and prevent an allergic reaction to antibiotics.

This approach makes the treatment of pneumonia safe, fairly fast and efficient.

Of course, the doctor would prescribe more drugs and inhaled expectorants. It is very important to ensure that sputum coughed, and rapidly eliminated from the body dead and half-dead microbes, and, consequently, the child recover quickly.

That's a terrible pneumonia into a manageable disease, which can be effectively treated.

Pediatrician Sokolov A