What are the clinical features of mycoplasma pneumonia in children

In general, the child's body is also the most fragile, and it is easier to have some effects and problems, so it is easier to suffer from mycoplasma pneumonia when children do not pay attention, and patients should also pay more attention to the symptoms when they understand these problems, so what are the clinical characteristics of mycoplasma pneumonia in children? Let's answer it in detail.

1. Caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, more common in children aged 5~15 years.

2. Slow onset, low-grade fever or moderate fever, fever duration of 1~3 weeks, accompanied by headache, sore throat, muscle aches.

3. Irritating dry cough as a prominent manifestation, at first dry cough, then turned into intractable severe cough, sometimes like whooping cough, coughing up mucus thick sputum, and even bloodshot. The cough lasts for a long time, up to 1~4 weeks, and is often accompanied by chest pain.

4. Pulmonary signs are mild and inconsistent with severe cough and fever.

5. Infants and young children have an acute onset, a long course of illness, and a serious illness, which is manifested as dyspnea, wheezing, stridor sounds, and many rales in the lungs.

6. Extrapulmonary manifestations: poverty lysis, meningitis, myocarditis,nephritisWait.

7. X-ray characteristics: (1) hilar shadow thickening; (2) Bronchopneumonia changes, mostly in the middle and lower fields of the right lung; (3) interstitial pneumonia changes, diffuse reticular nodular opacities in both lungs; (4) a large shadow on the uniform; (5) pleural effusion; (6) migratory infiltration; (7) Cloudy infiltration shadow.

The above is to give some answers to the diseases of children, so we should also know more about them, especially the manifestations of some symptoms, and receive more appropriate treatment.