What are the symptoms and manifestations of mycoplasma pneumonia in children How to prevent Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children?

What are the symptoms and manifestations of mycoplasma pneumonia in children?

1. Fever: the temperature is not constant, the body temperature is 37-41 °C, most of them are about 39 °C, it can be persistent or relaxed, or it can only be manifested as low-grade fever, etc., the fever course is 1-3 weeks, and febrile convulsions can occur when the fever is high.

2. Cough: mostly irritating cough, stubborn, similar to whooping cough, dry cough at the beginning, followed by viscous sputum, occasionally containing a small amount of blood.Infants and young children have a rapid onset, a long course of disease, and a serious illness, accompanied by dyspnea and wheezing.

3. Systemic symptoms and signs: most of them do not have a rapid onset, with symptoms such as anorexia, chills, headache, sore throat, substernal pain, and occasional nausea, vomiting and transient maculopapular rash or urticaria. Mild dullness on percussion, decreased breath sounds, wet rales on auscultation, and sometimes signs of obstructive emphysema.

Other symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia in children

1. Mycoplasma pneumonia can be accompanied by multi-system and multi-organ damage, and extrarespiratory lesions can involve skin and mucous membranes, manifesting as morbilliform or scarlet fever-like rash.

2. Occasionally, non-specific myalgia and migratory arthralgia are seen.

3. Vomiting, diarrhea and liver damage can be seen in the gastrointestinal system.

4. Hemolytic anemia is more common in the blood system, and the nervous system damage is manifested as polyradiculitis, encephalitis, etc.

How to prevent Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children

1. Parents should urge children to wash their hands frequently, and often emphasize the benefits of frequent hand washing to children, especially so that children should consciously pay attention to personal hygiene and not eat unhygienic things.

2. Parents try to ensure balance in nutrition for children, and the balanced combination of nutrition is the basis for growth and development.Children are in the golden period of growth and development, the metabolism of this period is very vigorous, the intake of balanced food is particularly important for them, if the intake of nutrients during this period is not balanced, it may have a certain impact on their growth and development, so that their own resistance is reduced, resulting in a very susceptible to mycoplasma pneumonia this disease.

3. During the period of high incidence of influenza, parents should try not to take their children to densely populated public places. In addition, if parents have a cold, try to wear a mask at home, reduce close contact with children, and regularly disinfect the indoor environment and common items once or twice a week.

4. Parents should also take children to do some sports outdoors, such as running, skipping rope, playing badminton, playing basketball, etc., and taking children to bask in the sun, which can enhance children's own resistance, thereby reducing the probability of infection with mycoplasma pneumonia.