Medical Management and Sign, Symptoms of Pneumonia Disease
What is Pneumonia Disease?
Pneumonia disease is an infection that enrages the air sacs in one lung or both lungs. The air sacs may fill with fluid or pus (Purulent material), causing cough with phlegm or pus, fever, chills, and difficulty in breathing. There are various types of organisms i.e. bacteria, fungi and viruses can cause pneumonia disease. Pneumonia diseases can extent in seriousness from mild to life-threatening. This type of pneumonia disease is most serious for infants and young children, people older than age 65, and people with problems or weakened immune systems.
Sign and Symptoms of Pneumonia Disease:
All the sign and symptoms of pneumonia disease have pointed out below:
- Fever: sudden onset, high fever, usually associated with rigor and vomiting.
- Chest pain: Pleuritic chest pain. It is occasionally referred to as the shoulder or anterior abdominal wall.
- A cough: short, painful, at first dry, later become productive and may become rust-colored or even frankly bloodstain.
- Dyspnea.
- Loss of appetite and headache.
- Tachycardia,
- Pyrexia,
- Tachypnea,
- Cyanosis,
- Hypotension,
- Confusion.
Medical Management of Pneumonia:
Medical management of pneumonia for age 2 months to 5 years:
1. Advice the mother on home care:
a. Feed the child:
It includes-
- Feed the child during illness.
- Increase feeding after the illness.
- Clear the nose if it interferes with feeding.
b. Increase fluids:
It includes-
- Offer the child extra to drink.
- Increase breastfeeding.
c. Give referral knowledge to mother:
Return the child when-
- Breathing becomes fast.
- Breathing becomes difficult.
- No able to drink.
- The child becomes sicker.
d. Sooth the throat and relieve cough with a safe remedy (Like honey, lemon juice).
2. Antibiotic therapy for 5 days duration:
It includes-
- Any one of the following can be given the below medicine.
- Cotrimoxazole- Two times daily for 5 days (Oral).
- Amoxicillin- Three times daily for 5 days (Oral).
- Ampicillin- Four times daily for 5 days (Oral).
3. Treatment of fever:
It includes-
- If high (>39°C) – Paracetamol.
- If not high (38°C-39°C) – Advice the mother to provide more fluid.
- Fever for more than five days: Refer for assessment.
4. Rx of wheezing: Oral salbutamol.
5. Advice the mother to return the child in 2 days for reassessment.
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