Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment of mycoplasma pneumonia in children

I believe that everyone will be familiar with the symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia in children, mycoplasma pneumonia in children is a common symptom in our lives, mycoplasma pneumonia in children is easy to bring many troubles to the patient's body, so we must pay attention to this symptom, once the child is found to have mycoplasma pneumonia in children, parents should help their children to treat this symptom in time, and we will introduce the methods of traditional Chinese medicine to treat mycoplasma pneumonia in children.

The prevention of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection depends on enhancing physical fitness, appropriately taking children to carry out outdoor activities, carrying out physical exercises, strengthening breathing exercises to improve respiratory function, opening windows for ventilation, and enhancing the body's ability to adapt to environmental temperature changes. In the epidemic season of respiratory tract infectious diseases, take children to public places less often, rationally allocate nutrition, and correctly supplement children with vitamin A, D and calcium to promote the development of the respiratory tract and reduce the susceptibility factors of pneumonia in children. Experts said that Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an important pathogen of pediatric pneumonia, and now the normal incidence of pediatric mycoplasma pneumonia has accounted for about 20% of pediatric pneumonia, and there is an upward trend, and the disease can occur throughout the year, but it is more common in autumn and winter, and there is a larger epidemic in a certain range every three to four years, and this year the region has shown a strong epidemic trend. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection has a long incubation period of 2 to 3 weeks, and can manifest as pharyngitis, rhinitis, or tracheitis and bronchiolitis, and some patients infected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae will develop mycoplasma pneumoniae. The main manifestations are fever, headache, chills, cough, general malaise, obvious fatigue, loss of appetite and other symptoms; It may also cause lesions in organs other than the respiratory tract, such as myocarditis, hepatitis, arthritis,nephritis, meningitis, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, etc. To confirm whether your child is infected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae, the hospital needs to culture the child's sputum or test the blood for Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies and antigens to make a correct diagnosis.

For the treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, Director Shi Yinong reminded that during the illness, parents should let their children rest more, keep the indoor air fresh, the best room temperature is 18 °C ~ 20 °C, and maintain 60% air humidity at the same time to prevent respiratory secretions from drying out and not easy to cough up; The child should be turned over, patted on the back, and changed the position frequently to promote the discharge of secretions. Give your child light food that is nutritious and easy to digest, eat small meals often, and encourage your child to drink more water. The disease is mainly transmitted by cough droplets, and the child excretes mycoplasma for a long time, up to 1~2 months, and is easy to be reinfected with other viruses, resulting in aggravation of the disease and prolongation, so it is necessary to pay attention to respiratory isolation during the illness and the treatment should be thorough.At present, the antibiotic treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children is mainly macrolides, and erythromycin, roxithromycin or azithromycin are preferred, which have good effects in the early application, but are easy to cause gastrointestinal reactions such as abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, which are difficult for children to accept. In recent years, due to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of mycoplasma, the use of macrolide antibiotics alone is not effective for patients with mycoplasma pneumonia, especially in patients with extrapulmonary complications. Clinically, the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine can significantly improve the clinical efficacy and reduce the side effects caused by macrolide antibiotics. According to the physiological and pathological characteristics of children, TCM can give full play to the advantages of overall syndrome differentiation and treatment, which can more thoroughly improve clinical symptoms, improve clinical efficacy, and effectively reduce the damage of pathogens to the body and reduce gastrointestinal reactions.

In the above article, we introduced a common symptom, that is, mycoplasma pneumonia, we know that the appearance of mycoplasma pneumonia in children is easy to bring many troubles to patients, so we should pay attention to this symptom, and the above has given us a detailed introduction to the treatment of mycoplasma pneumonia in children.