Manifestations of adenovirus pneumonia in children

I believe everyone has heard of pneumonia. Pneumonia is a disease that everyone knows, so pneumonia is not unfamiliar to people at all. Pneumonia patients can be as young as young children, and pediatric pneumonia can also occur, but have you heard of pediatric adenovirus pneumonia? Have you ever seen how patients behave when they are sick? The editor will now provide you with additional knowledge about adenovirus pneumonia in children.

Adenovirus pneumonia in children is a common type of viral pneumonia, and is more common in infants and young children aged 6 months to 2 years. The incidence rate is higher in winter and spring, and it is mostly transmitted through the respiratory tract. The onset is characterized by sudden fever, with the body temperature often reaching 39°C on the first or second day of the onset, and generally lasting for more than a week. Antibiotic treatment is ineffective.

The age of onset is mostly between 6 months and 3 years old, mostly in winter and spring. Symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection appear within 1 to 3 days of onset, with fever of 38 to 40℃, accompanied by cough, or conjunctival congestion of both eyes. Generally, the symptoms worsen after the fourth day of onset. The child's face becomes pale, and he becomes drowsy or alternately drowsy and irritable. The cough further worsens. 6 to 7 days after the onset of the disease, the child develops symptoms such as rapid, difficult, and wheezing breathing, and blue lips and nails. Although treated with a variety of antibiotics or traditional Chinese medicines, the effect is not obvious. The body temperature of children with mild symptoms will drop sharply after 8 to 11 days, and symptoms such as cough and asthma will also disappear. Severely ill children have pale or gray complexion, listlessness, drowsiness or even coma, difficulty breathing, cold limbs, abdominal distension, and may also have combined heart failure, pulmonary and gastrointestinal bleeding, toxic encephalopathy, etc. The fever of those who recover will subside in 14 to 18 days, and the above symptoms will disappear quickly after the fever subsides. If the child has a bacterial infection, the fever may last longer. Children with severe pneumonia may eventually die from respiratory failure, with a mortality rate of about 10%. Even if pneumonia improves in critically ill children, more than half of them will still have sequelae of lung dysfunction such as recurrent coughing and wheezing, and a few will even develop cor pulmonale.

Adenovirus pneumonia in children is also relatively serious, and the mortality rate is real. I think every family is sad to see their child's life slipping away little by little because of this disease. Therefore, when you encounter this disease, observe the symptoms carefully, and go to the hospital for treatment immediately if you find anything abnormal, don't delay.