What are the symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia in babies?

The baby's lungs are prone to pneumonia after being infected with mycoplasma, and their own resistance is relatively poor, which may be more serious and will also adversely affect normal growth and development.It is very necessary for parents to understand the symptoms caused by the disease, so that they can go to the pediatric examination and treatment as soon as possible, and the following will tell you about the possible manifestations.

1. After being infected with mycoplasma pneumonia, children often have fever, that is, high and moderate fever, low fever, fever duration of 1-3 weeks, irritating cough is a prominent manifestation, similar to whooping cough, with viscous sputum; Infants and young children have a rapid onset, a long course of illness, and a more serious illness, with dyspnea and wheezing more prominent.

2. Some of the manifestations of multiple systems of the whole body, such as chest tightness, heartbeat, palpitation, shortness of breath, fever, and some often feel short of breath and sigh during myocarditis; Poor appetite, vomiting, abdominal discomfort in hepatitis; Meningitis may cause changes in mental status, vomiting, headache, convulsions, etc., as well as various rashes.

3. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection has mild to severe, the manifestations are different, the symptoms of mild cases are only repeated cough, which is often ignored by patients and parents, and some can lead to allergic cough, cough for more than 2 weeks, and those with conditions should check chest X-ray and mycoplasma antibodies to confirm mycoplasma pneumonia.

4. Mycoplasma pneumonia in children is a systemic disease caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, with pneumonia as the main manifestation, accounting for 20% of pneumonia in children, and some are accompanied by myocarditis, hepatitis, etc., which became atypical pneumonia in the past.Nowadays, with the development of diagnostic technology, the detection rate of it has increased, and it has been found to be an important pathogen of respiratory tract infection in children, which has attracted increasing attention.

In fact, these symptoms are relatively obvious, but they are easy to be ignored by parents at the beginning, and the condition will deteriorate at this time. Therefore, parents are reminded that they must deepen their understanding of mycoplasma pneumonia and take their children for examination if they have similar symptoms, so as not to delay the best treatment time.