Pediatric pneumonia and its classification

Pneumonia is a common and frequent disease in childhood, especially in infants and young children, pneumonia is one of the main causes of infant death, so it must be paid enough attention.

Pneumonia refers to the inflammation caused by a variety of pathogenic microorganisms and some other pathogenic factors in the lungs, and its pathological characteristics are that there is exudative inflammation in the lung interstitium and alveoli that causes lung tissue lesions, and the clinical characteristics of pneumonia are fever, cough, often accompanied by shortness of breath, rapid breathing, nasal flaring, wheezing, and in severe cases, perioral inflammation.

Classification of pneumonia:

1. Pathological classification, lobar pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, lobular pneumonia, interstitial pneumonia and bronchiolitis.

2. Pathogen classification, bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, fungal pneumonia, mycoplasma pneumonia, rickettsial pneumonia, protozoal pneumonia and aspiration pneumonia.

3. Classification of the course of the disease, one month for acute pneumonia, one to three months for prolonged pneumonia and more than three months for chronic pneumonia.

4. Classification of diseases, mild, mild, except for the respiratory system, other systems are only slightly involved, and the symptoms of systemic poisoning are not obvious, and severe disease, severe disease, in addition to serious damage to the respiratory system, other systems are also involved, and the symptoms of systemic poisoning are obvious.