What is the best medicine to take for pediatric pneumonia

The treatment of pediatric pneumonia should be comprehensive treatment, which includes general treatment and nursing, which is mainly to strengthen the child's care, keep the room ventilated, disinfect frequently, the temperature in the house is about 22 degrees, keep the humidity at 50% to 60%, and the nutritional diet must be balanced.

Second, anti-infective treatment, is caused by different pathogen infection caused by lung inflammation, so according to different pathogens to choose appropriate antibiotics and antiviral drugs, usually if the diagnosis is bacterial infection, the first choice is cephalosporin or penicillin, antibiotics should be used until the body temperature is normal for five to seven days, the symptoms disappear for three days before the drug can be stopped, requiring sufficient amount and full course of treatment.

If pneumonia is caused by chlamydia or mycoplasma infection, macrolide antibiotics such as erythromycin and azithromycin are required for two to three weeks before they can be stopped.

3. Symptomatic treatment, symptomatic treatment is mainly antipyretic, asthmatic, antitussive, and oxygen, among which antipyretic drugs In general, if there is no history of high fever and convulsions, the body temperature repeatedly exceeds 38 degrees, and the five can be used to reduce fever with aceylphenol or ibuprofen; Cough and phlegm medicines can be used in children's acute syrup, etc., asthma, antitussive are generally usually nebulized, commonly used drugs are budesonide, terbutaline sulfate, etc.; Glucocorticoids are mainly used to treat symptoms of systemic toxicity, children with severe wheezing, or patients with severe pneumonia.