Repeated coughing and taking medicine don't work? Beware of pneumonia "mycoplasma".

Since the beginning of winter, many adults and children have developed symptoms such as cough and fever, which look like a cold, but whether they take cold medicine or anti-inflammatory drugs, they have little effect. Some people even dragged on for a month or two, and finally got pneumonia. Experts say that Mycoplasma pneumoniae is behind this: it is between a virus and a bacterium, it is very good at camouflage, ordinary anti-inflammatory drugs do not work, and this year is in the season of another outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

This morning, in the pediatric outpatient clinic and ward of a hospital in Nanjing, the cough was incessant, and most of the patients were children under the age of five, some of whom had been coughing for a week or two, and the high fever did not go away, and the symptoms were more obvious at night.

Chen Hui, deputy chief physician of the Department of Pediatrics at Jiangsu Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, said that the main manifestations are fever, cough for too long, and then there are different degrees of general discomfort, such as decreased appetite, muscle aches, or general discomfort.

The doctor said that Mycoplasma pneumoniae does not have a cell wall, so general antibiotics do not work against it, so only macrolide antibiotics such as erythromycin, roxithromycin, and azithromycin can be used. Once a person is infected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae, it can also be transmitted to others through droplets, contact transmission, etc.

Dr. Chan said that there is no lifelong immunity after mycoplasma infection, and it is found that the antibody is positive, which does not mean that it has a protective effect, and this antibody lasts for about 6 months.

Experts suggest that at present, there is no vaccination to prevent Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and frequent hand washing has a good preventive effect on Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Some adults are hidden carriers of pathogens and should pay attention to hygiene before touching or kissing children; If children are found to be infected with mycoplasma in kindergartens and schools, they should be isolated in time, and indoor ventilation and disinfection should be strengthened.