How do I know if my child has Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection? What are the symptoms?

Mycoplasma pneumonia is pneumonia caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mycoplasma pneumonia can occur throughout the year, but it is more common in autumn and winter. Mainly concentrated in school-age children, now infants also suffer from mycoplasma infection, mainly through droplet transmission, pulmonary signs are often not obvious, severe can be life-threatening or fatal. Let's introduce the symptoms to you, so that you can avoid detecting the disease too late.

Most of them have a slow onset, with an incubation period of 1-3 weeks, and the disease is fatigue, chills, sluggishness, headache, and sore throat; After 2-D, the fever type is irregular, showing low or moderate fever, and the heat course is L for 2 weeks; Cough gradually worsens, with cough or a small amount of sputum, sometimes like whooping cough, lasting L to 4 weeks; Infants and young children present with wheezing and dyspnea, older children complain of chest tightness and chest disease, and a small number of children may have extrapulmonary complications, such as neurological damage, hemolytic anemia, carditis, multiforme rash, myalgia, arthralgia, gastrointestinal symptoms, etc.

The signs are often not obvious, there may be dry and wet rales in the lungs, and otoscopy can show tympanic membrane hyperemia, hemorrhage, and inflammatory changes. Children may develop myringitis and otitis media, and a small number of patients may have complications such as blood (acute hemolysis, thrombocytopenic purpura) or nerve (peripheral neuritis, pleurisy, etc.) or Raynaud's phenomenon (intermittent pallor or cyanosis of the limbs and pain when exposed to cold), prolonging the course of the disease.

Physical examination may show pharyngeal congestion, cervical lymphadenopathy, pulmonary signs are often inconspicuous, local breath sounds are decreased or there are few dry and wet DG sounds, occasional pleural effusion, and corresponding signs in patients with extrapulmonary complications.

It can be seen from the above that the symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia are diverse, and it is hoped that parents can understand the severity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, and only by fully understanding and mastering the symptoms, in the process of treating children with mycoplasma pneumonia, can timely comprehensive treatment be carried out to alleviate the condition of pediatric patients and prevent the condition from worsening.