Is Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection contagious

Recently, many people have had Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, many people don't know much about mycoplasma infection, and don't know if this disease is contagious, so when mycoplasma infection occurs, we must do a good job of prevention work, avoid infecting others, and avoid unnecessary danger to ourselves. How can it be effectively treated?

1. It's contagious. Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia is an acute inflammatory change of the respiratory tract and lungs caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, often with pharyngitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumonia accounts for more than one-third of nonbacterial pneumonia or 10% of pneumonia caused by all causes. The incidence is more common in autumn and winter, but the seasonal difference is not significant. It is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract, and healthy people are infected by snorting oral and nasal secretions from patients when coughing and sneezing, causing sporadic respiratory infections or small epidemics.

2. The clinical manifestations of mycoplasma infection are diverse, mainly causing upper respiratory tract infection, nasopharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. Most of the children have a slow onset, the body temperature changes more, low-grade fever or no fever, the fever lasts for 1~3 weeks, the cough is dry at first, and then turns into intractable severe cough or whooping cough-like spasm, the lung signs are not obvious, and the chest X-ray changes significantly, and the course of the disease lasts for 2~3 weeks or even several months. A small number of sick children can also present with extrapulmonary complications of multiple systems and organs, such as aseptic meningoencephalitis, myocarditis, hemolytic anemia, hepatitis, and various skin diseases. The disease is more common in older children, but in recent years, the incidence of infants and young children has increased year by year, and the onset is acute, severe, and the course of the disease is long, mainly dyspnea, wheezing and stridor. If your child has these symptoms, they should be treated promptly; As a parent, you should add or subtract clothes for your child in time according to the daily temperature change, usually focus on a high-calorie, high-protein, low-fat diet, drink more water, and add functional foods that improve immunity, such as bovine colostrum rich in IgG, IgM, and IgA, to fully meet the energy needed by the baby's body and prevent mycoplasma infection and morbidity

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is a kind of internal disease in our province, and the infectivity is very low, but it does not rule out the possibility of infection, so if there is mycoplasma infection, we must treat it in time to avoid bringing some negative effects to the people around us and our families.