Treatment of pneumonia in children

In colder periods of winter, when colds and tonsil infections are on the agenda, not a few boys who become ill with pneumonia. The first symptom of this infection are serious chills. It produces a sudden rise in temperature (up to 39 or 40 °) and the child feels pain in the chest.

When you cough, which makes continuously expels a purulent sputum, sometimes tinged with blood. Other symptoms of pneumonia are loss of appetite, sweating abundant, and often weak pulse, gasping for air and headache.

Good prognosis. In general, any patient with pneumonia should be considered as serious or potentially serious. Small with acute symptoms, infants and chronically ill should be placed, at least during the first five days of the process.

The other kids can be cured at home with a strict medical supervision. Must stay home between 10 and 15 days, and drink plenty of fluids. But if parents follow the doctor's instructions on diet and hygiene measures, relief will soon make act of presence.

Bronchitis

The bronchitis consists on the inflammation of the bronchial tree, accompanied by an excessive production of mucosity. The acute variety of bronchitis, very current, usually determines scarce incompetence. On the contrary, the chronic form is important, since he/she goes accompanied by intense dysfunctions of the respiratory feature and frequently continued of emphysema, and it can even drive to the death for bronchopneumonia or acute and cardiac breathing failure.

In the case of the acute bronchitis, you are about a process that can dearrollarse like the initial manifestation of an infectious illness, as the measles and the typhoid fever, or parallelly to an acute bacterial pneumonia. In chronic bronchitis they are sometimes observed symptoms of an acute, unchained bronchitis, apparently, for the ación of irritating factors, rather that infectious, such as the substances that pollute the atmosphere.

You frequently begin with nuisances retroesternales, due to the inflammation of the trachea and dry, difficult and painful cough, in crisis form or paroxysms. The exhibition to the cold air and the inhalation of irritating agents, as the tobacco plant, they make worse the crisis of cough. Frequently he/she goes accompanied by noisy and perceptible respiration; and at the beginning, it is usually escalsa the expectoration of the mucus, which are made then more abundant and I thicken.

The bronchitis agudade the children evolve in a very serious way, because of the pneumonia that originate.

As for the chronic bronchitis, you are characterized by cough and expectoration that it persist the whole year, with abundant secretion of bronchial mucus and inflammatory alterations of the bronchial wall.

The factors that intervene in the setting-up of the chronic bronchitis are several and they are not still very well-known. The frequency of due deaths to this illness increases with the age, and you are eviodente the prevalence of the men on the women.

You are difficult to establish the paper carried out by the sick person's profession in the origin of this illness, but the certain thing is that you take place with more frequency in the industrial fields. You are suspected firmly that the sludges of the atmospherical air influence notably in the path and disease progression. You seem also to be certain that the nicotine inhaled with the fume of the tobacco plant acts directly on the bronchial mucosa and you force her to segregate an excessive quantity of mucus; however, all the smokers of cigarettes not suffer bronchitis, that which make suppose that certain individual and family susceptibility exists.

The development of the chronic bronchitis is manifested by intermittent crisis of acute bronchitis, mainly in the months of winter, crisis of which it are more and more difficult to recover. In general, the illness begins in way inidosa, although it can begin in an acute way. Many sick persons allocate your promeros symptoms to some infectious acute process, as pneumonia, measles, whooping cough, etc.; other, simply to smoke. The progress of the chronic bronchitis is co patent frequency, until transforming into a suffering that last the whole year, with acute exacerbations. This state frequently leads to the death, well for rough pneumonia, well for breathing failure or cardiac right, to the end of 20 or 40 years after your beginning.

The influence of the atmospherical state, is fully grateful, and you are notorious the aggravation of the symptoms the days of cold, wet time and with mist.

Pneumonia

The inflammations of the lung or pneumonias (commonly pneumonias), they are usually produced by bacteria but viral pneumonias, rickettsiósicas, etc also exist. the germs pathogens arrive to the lung transported by the blood stream, or for top-down propagation of infectious processes of the respiratory higher channels: rinitis and pharyngitis that, if they descend, they can give place to laryngitis, to traqueítis, to bronchitis and even to infections of the own lung.

Conjointly with the pneumonias we should mention the bronchopneumonias. In the pneumonias a pulmonary single inflammatory focus exists, of enough extension: it embraces to great part of a lobe, to one complete, or to more than one. In the bronchopneumonias the pulmonary inflammation is plurofocal: the aflame fields of the lung are usually pettier than in the pneumonia, but they exist different. The same germs that cause the pneumonias can give origin to bronchopneumonias.

The pneumonias and bronchopneumonias are always important illnesses. They study with deep prostration, fever, side (if the focus inflammatory wound until the pleura) pain, cough with scarce expectoration and breathing difficulty.

The most frequent bacterial pneumonia is the neumocócida. 90% of the bacterial pneumonias is neumocócidas and they are very sensitive to the antibiotics, especially to the penicillin.

Commonly it is believed, and until many physicians they admit it that from the input of the antibiotics in the treatment of the infections, the frequency of the pneumonias has diminished a lot of .Pero the reality it is that the pneumonias continue being as frequent as before the antibiotic and chemotherapeutic therapy; what has diminished has been its graveness and mortality: the systematic practice, in hospital centers, of thorax x-rays in patient acute affections of respiratory infections confirms it. But given the effectiveness of the antibiotics in the pneumococcal pneumonia, and to be this the most frequent bacterial pneumonia, many of these illnesses, are cured without book credit diagnostigadas.