Is mycoplasma pneumonia contagious in children? How is it treated?

As winter temperatures get cooler and colder, there is a high incidence of various respiratory diseases. Mycoplasma pneumonia is also menacing. Recently, the pediatric outpatient clinic has been overcrowded, and there are many children who have become ill with mycoplasma pneumonia. Many parents feel scared when they hear about mycoplasma pneumonia, but they miss the treatment because they don't understand the symptoms, so parents should have a proper understanding of mycoplasma pneumonia.

Is mycoplasma pneumonia a contagious disease?

Mycoplasma is present in humans and animals, it is not pathogenic, and in special environments, it can not only cause pneumonia, but also cause mycoplasma infection in the blood-urinary nervous system.Mycoplasma pneumonia is easy to infect the lungs, and the pathogen will attach to the mucosal cells of the respiratory tract and cause the disease to develop, because the pathogen will be transmitted through the mouth and nose, and once the patient is contacted, people with weak immunity are easy to be infected and sick.

Mycoplasma pneumonia is not easy to detect because there are no characteristic symptoms at the time of occurrence and there is an incubation period of 2~3 weeks. Moreover, because the cough of this disease is not serious in the early stage, it is easy to ignore and misjudge the disease by observing the symptoms of cough and fever in children. However, the disease has underlying features that can be judged to occur at the onset of the disease.

What are the characteristics of mycoplasma pneumonia?

Generally speaking, most of the children with mycoplasma pneumonia are symptomatic when they occur, and the child's fever and body temperature are as high as 38~39 °C in the early stage. It lasts for 1~3 weeks and is accompanied by sore throat, cough and muscle aches. In the later stage, there will be an intractable cough, and it will be accompanied by thick sputum, wheezing, and coarse breath. At this time, if there is no obvious abnormality in lung auscultation, and the white blood cells will not be elevated on blood count, but the symptoms persist, it is necessary to be alert to suspicion of mycoplasma pneumonia.

How is mycoplasma pneumonia treated?

When the child has symptoms and persists, anti-inflammatory drugs can be used under the guidance of a doctor, when the cough gradually decreases and does not affect normal life, the body temperature and inflammation return to normal, and the medicine can be gradually reduced after the physical examination. During this period, it is necessary to take good care, let the child drink more water, take measures to keep warm, and properly carry out outdoor sports to enhance resistance.

As a highly contagious disease, mycoplasma pneumonia has a high incidence in winter, so parents should help their children take preventive measures. Wear a mask when you go out to avoid cross-infection of the virus, and let your children maintain a good daily routine to maintain a normal immune system to prevent the virus from taking advantage of it.