How to treat pneumonia caused by mycoplasma infection
It should also be noted that once the patient is diagnosed with pneumonia caused by mycoplasma infection, he should actively cooperate with the doctor to take drugs for treatment, as if the treatment is not carried out in time, it may cause some damage to other organs of the patient's body.
The diagnosis is mainly based on serum-specific antibody testing, which can be confirmed when the antibody titer is 4-fold or more increased or decreased, and the treatment is mainly macrolide antibiotics, such as azithromycin and erythromycin. The main cause of mycoplasma pneumonia infection is infection in healthy people by inhaling secretions from the mouth and nose that are spewed when the patient coughs and sneezes.
Do I have to have an infusion for pediatric pneumonia?
If the symptoms are relatively severe, the spirit is declining, the person cannot eat, cough, yellow purulent sputum, high fever, large areas of infection are found on the chest X-ray, and the white blood cells are abnormally high in blood cell analysis, this situation must be treated with infusion. School-age children, with moderate disease, mild to moderate cough symptoms, good mental state, no fever or transient fever, and good adherence to oral medications, can choose oral medication. Do I have to have an infusion for pediatric pneumonia?
Difference Between Cough and Pneumonia
Often some independent strong bacteria, early infection of the baby's lungs, and the symptoms of signs will be mild, in the early stage, upper respiratory tract infection and lower respiratory tract infection, there is no obvious difference from the symptoms, but pneumonia or bronchitis is gradually aggravated symptoms, the course of the disease is longer, and the upper respiratory tract infection is only in the acute phase about three days or so cough aggravation, after which the cough symptoms will gradually ease, for most babies, the course of the disease is about a week.The difference between ordinary cough and pneumonia is mainly as follows: patients with ordinary cough usually present with dry cough without obvious sputum production, such as the cough of patients with acute upper respiratory tract infection, acute trachea, and bronchitis has the above characteristics. The difference between a common cough and a new type of pneumonia cough can be said to be basically no difference in the very early days.