How to prevent colds from becoming pneumonia in children?
Recently, affected by weather changes, whether child or adult resistance is weak, it is more susceptible to influenza. Coupled with children’s poor communication skills can often unable to express their own discomfort, often early childhood development sickness symptoms changes rapidly, so these symptoms cannot be taken lightly, it should be carefully observed, when symptoms occurs should immediately get medical from the hospital, so as to avoid unnecessary delay in treatment caused deterioration, there can be life-threatening complications.
Flu and pneumonia can have the same symptoms such as cough and runny nose. However, sometimes influenza virus can further go into the trachea and lungs, stimulating the trachea, causing pneumonia, especially for influenza virus infection. Therefore, before in the epidemic season parents should encourage their children to receive influenza virus vaccine injection and bacterial pneumonia pneumococcal vaccine injection, especially those who having asthma, allergy and anti-secured weak children, to take advance prevention and ensuring the health of the children.
Pediatrician recommended most important thing is to prevent a cold season to avoid involvement in crowded public places. Source of infection can come from schools, child-care centers and family-oriented. Children and parents should always wash hands thoroughly. In addition to children suffering from a cold, should avoid close contact with others, to prevent the nose, eye contact with secretions, to prevent infecting others. Avoid sharing towels etc.
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