Treatment of pneumonia in children at home

Features of treatment of pneumonia in children at home

Treatment of pneumonia in children at home is often permitted if the child is more than 3 years old and there are no serious complications.Pneumonia is an acute disease caused by an infection that is inflammatory and affects lung tissue. It is very important that the doctor as soon as possible put the correct diagnosis and prescribe the appropriate treatment. If a child is allowed to be treated at home, then much depends on the parents and close relatives who take responsibility for caring for the sick.

Basic rules of home treatment

When treating at home, first of all the child should ensure complete rest and bed rest, especially in the first days of the disease, when the condition is very weak. If the child is hard to breathe, then you can put pads to make it sit in a semi-sitting position. Because of the high temperature, children will sweat profusely, therefore it is necessary to change often bed linen and bed linen. Personal hygiene should also be observed, if the child has not enough strength, then you can wipe it with a wet towel or napkin.

The room in which the children will be kept should be kept absolutely clean. The room should be regularly ventilated, but treated for this time from the room is better to remove, to prevent hypothermia. The temperature in the room should be within 23 ° C, we must try to ensure that the air is not overdried. Every day, it is necessary to carry out wet cleaning, so that the microbes that are released during breathing, could not reproduce.

The patient's menu may not differ from that which was before the disease, but the food should be warm and preferably finely chopped so that the child can swallow it easily. Broths, meat, dairy products, fresh vegetables and fruits should be included in the diet. Food should be varied, nutritious, rich in vitamins.

Be sure to provide the patient with a plentiful drink that will save him from possible dehydration. In addition to the usual water, children will be useful to drink all kinds of juices, teas, decoctions and fruit drinks. Drinks should be moderately sweet, and they should be drunk in small portions.

Medication

Even if the doctor has allowed to leave the child at home, in any case it is impossible to engage in self-medication. Inflammation of the lungs is a very serious disease, therefore it is necessary to strictly follow all the recommendations of a specialist. Otherwise, the patient's condition may deteriorate significantly, and then the treatment will have to continue in the hospital.

In order to fully cope with the infection, prescribe antibiotics. The drug is administered individually in each case. It depends on the age of the patient, on his general condition and on the pathogen that caused the disease. The doctor can prescribe medications such as Cefixime, Ceftriaxone, Azithromycin or Metrogil, they will need to be applied about a week. For the prevention of dysbiosis, the administration of such medications as Linex, Bifiform or Lactobacterin is prescribed.

To remove the inflammatory process, improve the sputum discharge during coughing and normal work of the bronchi, prescribe the use of bronchodilators and mucolytics. Often the doctor appoints in this case Berodual, Tussin and Pakseladin. Assign also the intake of vitamins C and B group. When the body temperature is normal, compresses can be used. To improve the patency of the bronchi, the patient can perform breathing exercises, which consist in the fact that the child repeatedly inflates balloons or soap bubbles several times a day.

When blood tests and X-rays show that abnormalities in the lungs have disappeared, doctors recommend that patients stay at home for about 10 more days, so that the body is fully restored. In this period it is very useful to conduct therapeutic gymnastics, which will appoint a specialist.

Treatment with folk methods

To complement the drug treatment and accelerate the recovery of the patient, often apply folk recipes that help cope with pneumonia. Patients are treated with badger fat. To break his unpleasant taste, you can add it to warm milk, a glass of which will be enough 1 teaspoon of fat. For the taste, jam or any honey is added, this remedy is applied up to 3 times a day.

You can prepare broths, for example, from licorice root, pine buds or fennel fruits. On a glass of boiling water you need 2 tablespoons of any collection, you need to insist about 30 minutes, then the mixture is filtered, heated and applied up to 3 times a day.

It is useful to use decoctions cooked from hips, bilberries, blueberries or black currants. For 1 cup of boiling water you need to take 1 table spoon of some berries, insist for about an hour and drink warmly up to 3 times a day. To increase immunity, you can brew tea from grass strawberries, cranberries, nettle leaves or currants.

To further prevent the disease with pneumonia, it is necessary to strengthen the immunity of children in every possible way.

This will help daily walks in the fresh air at any time of the year and in any weather. Hardening procedures should be performed with children. If the catarrhal disease does come, it is necessary to conduct timely treatment in order to avoid complications. You can treat pneumonia, most importantly - strictly adhere to all the recommendations of the doctor.

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Pneumonia in a child - symptoms, treatment, causes

Inflammation of the lungs or pneumonia is one of the most common acute infectious and inflammatory diseases of a person. Moreover, the concept of pneumonia does not include various allergic and vascular lung diseases, bronchitis, and also impaired lung function, triggered by chemical or physical factors (injuries, chemical burns).

Especially often there are pneumonia in children, the symptoms and signs of which are reliably determined only on the basis of X-ray data and a general blood test. Pneumonia among all pulmonary pathologies in young children is almost 80%. Even with the introduction of advanced technologies in medicine - the discovery of antibiotics, improved methods of diagnosis and treatment - so far this disease is among the top ten most frequent causes of death. According to statistics in various regions of our country, the incidence of pneumonia in children is 0.4-1.7%.

When and why can a child develop pneumonia?

Lungs in the human body perform several important functions. The main function of the lungs is the gas exchange between the alveoli and the capillaries, which envelop them. Simply put, oxygen from the air in the alveolus is transported to the blood, and from the blood carbon dioxide enters the alveolus. They also regulate body temperature, regulate blood coagulability, are one of the filters in the body, promote purification, removal of toxins, decay products arising from various injuries, infectious inflammatory processes.

And if food poisoning, a burn, a fracture, surgical interventions, any serious injury or disease, there is a general decrease in immunity, it is easier to cope with the toxin filtration effort more easily. That is why very often after a child has suffered or is suffering from injuries or poisonings, pneumonia occurs.

The most common pathogens are pathogenic bacteria - pneumococci, streptococci and staphylococci, and recently cases of lung inflammation from such pathogens, legionella (usually after staying at airports with artificial ventilation), mycoplasma, chlamydia, which are not often mixed, associated.

Pneumonia in a child, as an independent disease that occurs after a serious, strong, prolonged hypothermia, it is extremely rare, as parents try not to allow such situations. As a rule, in most children, pneumonia occurs not as a primary disease, but as a complication after an acute respiratory viral infection or influenza, less often other diseases. Why is this happening?

Many of us believe that acute viral respiratory diseases in the last decades have become more aggressive, dangerous their complications. Perhaps this is due to the fact that both viruses and infections have become more resistant to antibiotics and antiviral drugs, so they are so hard for children and cause complications.

One of the factors contributing to the increase in the incidence of pneumonia in children in recent years has been the overall poor health of the growing generation - how many children are born with congenital pathologies, malformations, CNS lesions. Especially severe pneumonia occurs in premature or newborn babies, when the disease develops against the background of intrauterine infection with an insufficiently formed, not mature respiratory system.

In congenital pneumonia, the herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, mycoplasmas are not infrequently causative agents, and when infected with childbirth - chlamydia, group B Streptococcus, conditionally pathogenic fungi, E. coli, Klebsiella, anaerobic flora, when infected with hospital infections, pneumonia begins on day 6 or 2 weeks after birth.

Naturally, pneumonia often happens in cold weather, when the organism is subjected to seasonal adjustment from heat to cold and vice versa, there are overloads for immunity, at this time there is a lack of natural vitamins in foods, temperature changes, damp, frosty, windy weather contribute to children's hypothermia and their infection.

In addition, if a child suffers from any chronic diseases - tonsillitis, adenoids in children, sinusitis, dystrophy, rickets (see. rickets in infants), cardiovascular disease, any severe chronic pathologies, such as congenital central lesions nervous system, malformations, immunodeficiency states - significantly increase the risk of developing pneumonia, aggravate its course.

The severity of the disease depends on:

• Extensibility of the process (focal, focal, draining, segmental, lobar, interstitial pneumonia).
• The child's age, the younger the baby, the narrower the airways, the less intense gas exchange in the child's body and the heavier the course of pneumonia.
• Places where and for what reason there was a pneumonia:
  - community-acquired: most often have an easier flow
  - hospital: more severe, because it is possible to infect bacteria resistant to antibiotics
  - Aspiration: when inhaled foreign objects, mixture or milk.
• The most important role in this is played by the general health of the child, that is, his immunity.

Improper treatment of influenza and ARVI can lead to pneumonia in the child

When a child falls ill with an ordinary cold, SARS, influenza - the inflammatory process is localized only in the nasopharynx, trachea and larynx. With a weak immune response, and also if the causative agent is very active and aggressive, and the treatment in the child is done incorrectly, the process of reproduction of bacteria descends from the upper respiratory tract to the bronchi, then bronchitis may occur. Further, the inflammation can affect the lung tissue, causing pneumonia.

What happens in the body of a child in a viral disease? The majority of adults and children in the nasopharynx always have various opportunistic microorganisms - streptococci, staphylococci, without causing harm to health, because local immunity inhibits their growth.

However, any acute respiratory disease leads to their active reproduction and with the correct action of the parents during the illness of the child, immunity does not allow their intensive growth.

What should not be done during ARVI in the child, so as not to cause complications:

• You can not use antitussives. Coughing is a natural reflex that helps the body to clear the trachea, bronchi and lungs from mucus, bacteria, toxins. If, for the purpose of reducing the intensity of dry cough, to use the antitussive drugs that affect the cough center in the brain, such as Stoptusin, Broncholitin, Libexin, Paxeladin, then sputum and bacteria may accumulate in the lower respiratory tract, which ultimately leads to pneumonia.
• It is not possible to conduct any preventive therapy with antibiotics for colds, with a viral infection (see. antibiotics for colds). Against the virus, antibiotics are powerless, and with opportunistic bacteria immunity should cope, and only when complications arise according to the doctor's appointment is shown their use.
• The same applies to the use of various nasal vasoconstrictors, their use contributes to a faster penetration virus in the lower respiratory tract, so galazolin, Naphthysine, Sanorin used in viral infection is not safe.
• Abundant drink - one of the most effective methods of removing intoxication, dilution of sputum and rapid cleansing of respiratory There are plenty of ways to drink, even if the child refuses to drink, parents should be very persistent. If you do not insist that your child drink enough fluids, in addition, the room will have dry air - it will be promote drying of the mucosa, which can lead to a longer course of the disease or complication - bronchitis or pneumonia.
• Permanent ventilation, lack of carpets and carpeting, daily wet cleaning of the room in which the child is, moisturizing and cleaning the air with a humidifier and air cleaner will help to quickly cope with the virus and prevent the development of pneumonia. As clean, cool, moist air helps to dissolve sputum, quickly remove toxins with sweat, cough, wet breath, which allows the child to recover faster.

Acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis - differences from pneumonia

With SARS usually the following symptoms:

• High temperature in the first 2-3 days of the disease (see Fig. antipyretics for children)
• Headache, chills, intoxication, weakness
• Qatar upper respiratory tract, runny nose, cough, sneezing, sore throat (it does not always happen).

In acute bronchitis with Orvy, the following symptoms may occur:

• Minor increase in body temperature, usually up to 38C.
• First the cough is dry, then it becomes wet, there is no shortness of breath, unlike pneumonia.
• Breathing becomes hard, on different sides there are variously scattered rales that change or disappear after coughing.
• On the roentgenogram, the intensification of the pulmonary pattern is determined, the structure of the roots of the lungs decreases.
• There are no local changes in the lungs.

Bronchiolitis occurs most often in children up to a year:

• The difference between bronchiolitis and pneumonia can be determined only by X-ray examination, based on the absence of local changes in the lungs. According to the clinical picture, the acute symptoms of intoxication and the increase in respiratory insufficiency, the appearance of dyspnoea - very much resemble pneumonia.
• With bronchiolitis, the breathing in a child is weakened, shortness of breath with the help of an auxiliary musculature, nasolabial triangle to become a bluish shade, a general cyanosis, a pronounced pulmonary-cardiac insufficiency, is possible. When listening to a boxed sound is detected, the mass of scattered small bubbling rales.

Signs of pneumonia in the child

With a high activity of the causative agent of the infection, or with a weak immune response of the body to it, when even the most effective preventive medical measures do not stop the inflammatory the process and the condition of the child deteriorates, the parents can for some symptoms guess that the child needs more serious treatment and urgent examination of the doctor. In this case, in no case should not begin treatment by any popular method. If it really is pneumonia, it will not only not help, but the condition may worsen and time for adequate examination and treatment will be missed.

Symptoms of pneumonia in a child 2 - 3 years and older

How to identify attentive parents with a cold or viral illness that it is necessary to urgently call a doctor and suspect a pneumonia in the child? Symptoms that require an X-ray diagnosis:

• After Orvi, influenza within 3-5 days there is no improvement or after a slight improvement again there is a temperature jump and increased intoxication, coughing.
• Lack of appetite, sluggishness of the child, sleep disturbance, capriciousness persist within a week after the onset of the illness.
• The main symptom of the disease remains a strong cough.
• The body temperature is not high, but the baby has shortness of breath. At the same time, the number of breaths per minute in a child increases, the rate of breaths per minute in children aged 1-3 years is 25-30 breaths, in children 4-6 years - a rate of 25 breaths per minute, if the child is in a relaxed calm state. With pneumonia, the number of breaths becomes larger than these figures.
• With the other symptoms of a viral infection - cough, temperature, cold, severe pallor of the skin is observed.
• If the temperature is high for more than 4 days and antipyretic agents such as Paracetamol, Efferalgan, Panadol, Tylenol are not effective.

Symptoms of pneumonia in infants, children under one year of age

The onset of the disease can be noticed by the mom by changing the behavior of the baby. If a child constantly wants to sleep, become listless, apathetic or vice versa, he is a lot naughty, cries, refuses from food, with a slight increase in temperature - mom should immediately contact the pediatrician.

Body temperature

In the first year of life, pneumonia in a child, a symptom of which is considered to be a high, not knocked down temperature, differs in that at this age it is not high, does not reach 37.5 or even 37.1-37.3. The temperature is not an indication of the severity of the state.

The first symptoms of pneumonia in an infant

This causeless anxiety, lethargy, decreased appetite, the baby refuses the breast, the sleep becomes restless, short, appears a loose stool, there may be vomiting or regurgitation, a runny nose and paroxysmal cough that increases during crying or feeding the baby.

Child's breathing

Pain in the chest with breathing and coughing.
Sputum - with a damp cough, purulent or mucopurulent sputum (yellow or green) is secreted.
Shortness of breath or an increase in the number of respiratory movements in young children is a clear sign of pneumonia in a child. Dyspnoea in babies can be accompanied by nodding to the breath, as well as the baby blows his cheeks and extends his lips, sometimes there are foamy discharge from the mouth and nose. The symptom of pneumonia is considered to be the excess of the number of breaths per minute:

• In children up to 2 months - the norm is up to 50 breaths per minute, more than 60 is considered a high frequency.
• In children, after 2 months to a year, the norm is 25-40 breaths, if 50 or more, this is an excess of the norm.
• In children older than one year, the number of breaths more than 40 is considered a shortness of breath.

The skin relief during breathing changes. Attentive parents can also notice the retraction of the skin during breathing, more often on one side of the patient's lung. To notice this, it is necessary to undress the baby and observe the skin between the ribs, it retracts when breathing.

With extensive lesions, there may be a lag of one side of the lung with deep breathing. Sometimes you can notice periodic stopping of breathing, disturbance of rhythm, depth, breathing frequency and the child's desire to lie on one side.

Cyanosis of the nasolabial triangle

This is the most important symptom of pneumonia, when the blue skin appears between the lips and the spout of the baby. Especially this sign is pronounced when the child sucks the breast. With severe respiratory failure, a slight blueing can be not only on the face, but also on the body.

Chlamydia, mycoplasmal pneumonia in children

Among the pneumonias, the causative agents of which are not banal bacteria, but various atypical representatives secrete mycoplasmal and chlamydial pneumonia. In children, the symptoms of such pneumonia are slightly different from the course of the usual pneumonia. Sometimes they are characterized by a hidden sluggish current. Symptoms of SARS in a child can be as follows:

• The onset of the disease is characterized by a sharp rise in body temperature to 39.5C, then a stable low-grade fever -37.2-37.5 is formed or even a temperature normalization occurs.
• It is also possible the onset of the disease with the usual signs of ARVI - sneezing, choking in the throat, a bad cold.
• Persistent dry debilitating cough, shortness of breath may not be permanent. Such a cough usually occurs with acute bronchitis, and not pneumonia, which complicates the diagnosis.
• When listening to a doctor, scanty data are usually presented: rare variegated rattles, pulmonary percussion sound. Therefore, according to the nature of wheezing, it is difficult for a doctor to determine atypical pneumonia, since there are no traditional signs, which greatly complicates the diagnosis.
• In the analysis of blood in atypical pneumonia there may be no significant changes. But usually there is increased ESR, neutrophilic leukocytosis, a combination with anemia, leukopenia, eosinophilia.
• On the x-ray of the chest reveals a pronounced enhancement of the pulmonary pattern, non-uniform focal infiltration of the pulmonary fields.
• Both chlamydia and mycoplasma have a feature that exists for a long time in the epithelial cells of the bronchi and lungs, therefore, pneumonia usually has a prolonged recurrent character.
• Treatment of atypical pneumonia in the child is carried out by macrolides (azithromycin, josamycin, clarithromycin), since the causative agents to them are the most sensitive (to tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones, too, but they are contraindicated for children).

Indications for hospitalization

The decision on where to treat a child with pneumonia - in a hospital or at home, the doctor takes, while he takes into account several factors:

• The severity of the condition and the presence of complications - respiratory failure, pleurisy, acute disorders of consciousness, cardiac insufficiency, falling blood pressure, lung abscess, pleural empyema, infectious-toxic shock, sepsis.
• The defeat of several lobes of the lung. Treatment of focal pneumonia in the child at home is entirely possible, but with croupous pneumonia treatment is best done in a hospital.
• Social indications are poor living conditions, inability to perform care and doctor's prescriptions.
• Age of the child - if the infant is sick, this is the reason for hospitalization, because the pneumonia of the baby is a serious threat to life. If pneumonia develops in a child under 3 years of age, treatment depends on the severity of the condition and most often doctors insist on hospitalization. Older children can be treated at home provided that the pneumonia is not severe.
• General health - in the presence of chronic diseases, weakened overall health of the child, regardless of age, the doctor may insist on hospitalization.

Treatment of pneumonia in children

How to treat pneumonia in children? The basis of therapy for pneumonia is antibiotics. At a time when there were no antibiotics in the arsenal of doctors for bronchitis and pneumonia, a very frequent cause of death of adults and children was pneumonia, therefore, in no case can not refuse to use them, no folk remedies for pneumonia are effective. From the parents it is required to strictly follow all the doctor's recommendations, the proper care of the child, the observance of the drinking regime, nutrition:

• Admission of antibiotics must be carried out strictly in time, if the appointment of the drug 2 times in day, this means that there should be a break between meals at 12 o'clock, if 3 times a day, then a break of 8 hours (see. 11 rules how to take antibiotics correctly). Antibiotics are prescribed - penicillins, cephalosporins for 7 days, macrolides (azithromycin, josamycin, clarithromycin) - 5 days. The effectiveness of the drug is estimated within 72 hours - an improvement in appetite, a decrease in temperature, dyspnea.
• Antipyretics are used if the temperature is above 39C, in infants above 38C. Initially, antibiotic treatment of antipyretics is not prescribed, as the evaluation of the effectiveness of therapy is difficult. It should be remembered that during a high temperature in the body produces the maximum number of antibodies against the causative agent of the disease, so if the child can tolerate the temperature of 38C, it is better not to knock it down. So the body quickly cope with the microbe that caused pneumonia in the baby. If the child had at least one episode of febrile seizures, the temperature should be knocked down already at 37.5C.
• Nutrition of the child with pneumonia - lack of appetite in children during illness is considered natural and the child's refusal to admit food is explained by the increased burden on the liver when fighting infection, so you can not force a child to feed. If possible, prepare light food for the patient, exclude any ready-made chemical products, fried and fatty, try to feed the child simple, easily digestible food - cereals, soups on a weak broth, steamed cutlets from low-fat meat, boiled potatoes, various vegetables, fruits.
• Oral hydration - in water, natural freshly diluted juices - carrot, apple, slightly boiled tea with raspberries, rose hips infusion, water-electrolyte solutions (Regidron and others) are added.
• Airing, daily wet cleaning, use of air humidifiers - ease the condition of the baby, and the love and care of parents works wonders.
• No restorative (synthetic vitamins), antihistamines, immunomodulating agents are not used, as often lead to side effects and do not improve the course and outcome of pneumonia.

Reception of antibiotics for pneumonia in a child (uncomplicated) usually does not exceed 7 days (macrolides 5 days), and if bed rest is observed, follow all recommendations doctor, in the absence of complications, the child quickly recovers, but for a month there will still be residual effects in the form of a cough, minor weakness. With atypical pneumonia, treatment can be delayed.

In the treatment of antibiotics in the body, the intestinal microflora is broken, so the doctor prescribes probiotics - RioFlora Immuno, Acipol, Bifiform, Bifidumbacterin, Normobakt, Lactobacterin. Analogues of Linex - a list of all probiotics). To remove toxins after the end of therapy, the doctor can prescribe sorbents, such as Polysorb, Enterosgel, Filtrum.

With the effectiveness of treatment for general regimen and walks, it is possible to transfer the child from the 6th to the 10th day of the disease, the hardening to resume after 2-3 weeks. With a mild pneumonia, large physical exertion (sport) is allowed after 6 weeks, with complicated after 12 weeks.

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How to treat pneumonia in the home

How are pneumonia treated at home and what is the disease? Pneumonia in the people is called pneumonia. This is an infectious disease of the respiratory tract, which is caused by staphylococci, streptococci and a hemophilic rod. Most often, pneumonia occurs with weak immunity and in the off-season.

Light forms of pneumonia can be cured at home, but nevertheless it is necessary to adhere to the doctor's recommendations. But you should be aware that complications can occur in severe disease.

How does the infection occur?

The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets. Disease-causing microorganisms penetrate the body if they contact the patient. They fall with the flow of air into the lungs, and from them into the blood. If a person already has a cold, suffers from diabetes, consumes alcohol or smokes, then he is more likely to develop pneumonia. In rare cases, it may cause a stagnant fluid, which is formed due to prolonged stay in a horizontal position.

Symptoms of pneumonia:

1. Shortness of breath, it's hard to breathe in.
2. Pain in chest and back.
3. General weakness.
4. Increased sweating at night.
5. Confusion of consciousness.
6. Cough.
7. Headache.
8. Pain in the joints and muscles.
9. Increased temperature.

Symptoms can manifest to a greater or lesser extent, so you need to see a doctor to confirm or deny the assumption of the disease.

The incubation period

The duration of the incubation period varies from 1-3 days to 1-2 weeks. It all depends on which pathogen it is caused.

Infection can occur if:

1. There are violations of immunity, for example, AIDS.
2. When inhomogeneous particles enter the person's airways.
3. Caused by chlamydia, etc.
4. Intrahospital.
5. With mechanical ventilation of the lungs.
6. When organ transplantation.
7. In persons living in shelters.
8. Those who undergo blood purification.
9. If the wounds at home are improperly treated.

The severity of the disease is determined only by the attending physician in the study of pulmonary tissues and the general condition of the respiratory tract.

Causes of occurrence:

1. General hypothermia of the body.
2. Viruses.
3. Concomitant diseases.
4. Alcohol.
5. Smoking.
6. Elderly age.
7. Impairment of immunity.

Treatment of pneumonia:

1. Acceptance of antibiotics.
2. Medicines against phlegm.
3. Antipyretic.
4. Immunomodulating drugs.
5. Surgical intervention is possible.

Anyone can get pneumonia regardless of his age and living conditions. But some people have a higher probability of infection. This category includes the elderly, who must closely monitor their health.

As a rule, it is better to treat pneumonia in a hospital setting. If this is not possible, then the bed rest should be observed at home.The food should be full, the room is always ventilated and clean.You can not physically and mentally strain, you do not need to tire yourself and in no case can not bear the disease on your feet. Even after pneumonia is cured, you need to wait 10-15 weeks for the body to recover, only then you can go back to sports and lead an active lifestyle.

Pneumonia causes a worsening of appetite, but you need to eat at least a small portion, so that the body is not depleted. It is necessary to drink a sufficient amount of water, because the ailment comes out after a profuse sweating.

If respiratory failure occurs, oxygen inhalation should be performed.

If treatment is carried out at home, then it is necessary to monitor the adoption of medications. Some of them are administered intramuscularly, and some can be taken orally, it all depends on the severity of the disease.

Treatment of pneumonia is carried out for 6-11 days, if there is no improvement in health status, then the antibiotic is changed to more effective.

The ailment provokes intoxication of the body, so it is necessary to drink medicines that remove toxins from the body. To cure pneumonia, one should eat well and consume more vitamins to improve immunity.

With fever and fever, which can last for more than one week after the onset of inflammation, it is necessary to use antipyretic drugs.

With a strong cough, expectorating syrups are prescribed. Treatment includes the use of antihistamines to exclude allergic reactions.

It is necessary to carry out the procedures until the X-ray shows complete recovery.

What is dangerous for pneumonia and predictions for the course of the disease?

Disease can be complicated and affect other systems of organs. The disease can cause inflammation of the pleura. It can be purulent and is characterized by shortness of breath and attacks of severe suffocation.

The destruction of the lungs is due to a decrease in immunity with a long course of the disease. This purulent inflammation of the lung tissue can lead to gangrene. Pneumonia can cause myocarditis, pulmonary or heart failure, toxic shock and other.

It all depends on the age of the patient and the stage of the disease. In the normal course of the disease, complete recovery of the lung tissue is possible.

Can I use a diet to treat an illness?

The main feature of the menu for pneumonia is that food should be easily digested. This is due to the highest energy costs of the immune system.

In no case should you force yourself to eat without any appetite. Eat fruits that are rich in vitamins and nutrients. You can eat chicken broths and vegetable soups. At all stages of healing, one should drink a lot of water to "dilute" the toxins in the blood and remove them from the body. Useful tea with raspberries, water with a soda dissolved in it.

Despite the fact that doctors treat the disease in a hospital, competent therapy for the disease can be carried out at home. But at the same time one bed rest is not enough, it is necessary to comply with all the prescriptions of the doctor. With pneumonia, you can not joke, because doctors and send patients to pulmonary hospitals.

Traditional medicine in the fight against the disease

Healing of pneumonia with folk remedies can be when the doctor has determined the course of treatment and the type of disease.

Folk remedies are auxiliary to the drug treatment prescribed by the doctor.

In no case can not be treated at home without the advice of a doctor. On his part, regular monitoring of the patient's health is necessary.

Treatment with folk remedies:

1. Garlic is a good tool in fighting pneumonia. Take 250 grams, make a gruel out of it, place it in a container and cover it with a lid to stand for 20 minutes. Then open, take 100 g of the juiciest mass of garlic and pour into it a liter of cahors. Leave the mixture for 14 days, then pass through the cheesecloth and put it in a glass container. So it can keep its properties for a long time in the refrigerator. The mixture should rub the breast.
2. Take a huge bulb, squeeze out the juice from it, add honey in the same proportions. Drinking the medicine is necessary 3 times a day for 1 hour. l. 20 minutes before eating.
3. Cut the onion and cook it in 300 g of milk, cover with a clean cloth boiled milk in a bowl and let it steep for 3 hours. Further strain the composition and pour the liquid into a glass container, so it will be kept longer (store only in the refrigerator). Use after 3 hours for 1 tbsp. l.
4. Garlic - this is an effective tool in the fight against various ailments, but children refuse to use it. How to be? Take 1 hour. l. without a hill of herbal collection from the root of the althaea, pine buds, anise fruits, sage leaves and licorice root (they are in free access and they can be bought at any pharmacy), pour 300 ml of liquid, let it brew for 15 minutes and strain the infusion through gauze. Take 300 g of infusion 1 time in 2-, hours.
5. 5 hours l. herbal collection containing hoof root, thyme, fennel, pine buds, anise, licorice root, pour a glass of water at room temperature, allow to stand for a couple of hours and boil. Cool, strain through gauze, drink for several meals per day.
6. Gorciniks with pneumonia are an effective remedy. Along with ordinary mustard plasters, those that are sold in the pharmacy, it is allowed to use similar ones, but made of garlic. Chop garlic. On the chest and back, apply gauze, soaked with sunflower oil, put garlic pulp on them. The procedure time is 10 minutes, so as not to burn the skin.
7. With pneumonia, inhalations will also help, for example, using fir oil (5 drops per large container of water).
8. Very useful massage of the back and chest with the use of essential oils or mashed garlic.

Methods of prevention do not differ from such measures in any colds. It is necessary to wash hands thoroughly with soap before eating and after coming from the street. It is necessary to constantly maintain immunity, take vitamin complexes, do wellness procedures, walk in the fresh air, but do not overcool.

It is necessary to try to quit smoking, because this increases the risk of getting sick many and many times. In the spring and autumn, doctors are advised to wear medical gauze bandages to protect themselves from infection with influenza, which lowers the immunity of a person.

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How at home to treat pneumonia in a child 6 years old?

Answers:

Kosh

When pneumonia, it is necessary to prick an antibiotic (I pricked myself 2 times a day Ceftriaxone - painful injections). Cough is (there is a pneumonia without a cough)? Be sure to cough drugs (syrup, depending on what cough - wet or dry, ask the pharmacist), perhaps pills, thermal procedures on the chest and back ...

Yulia Kondratenko

Without antibiotics in any way. But they are very sick, but without them, well, in general, it can be started in such a way.

amoeba

I advise you to contact the health department... .
you know what pneumonia is? with it do not joke, it is necessary urgently in a hospital

Lydia44

In general, pneumonia is treated with antibiotics.. . It's strange that she did not write anything. Maybe there is no pneumonia?

said ogay

antibiotics will not replace hospital help if you are an inexperienced doctor or not at all physician

Nariste Mambetalieva

Antibiotics have to drink. Talk to your doctor.

Eugene

Pneumonia without antibiotics does not vomit, plus cough supplements, plus inhalations, a balanced diet (lots of drinking, vitamins), and bed rest. But I think if the doctor did not prescribe anything, then there is no pneumonia either, because she is treated urgently. I wonder if you did X-rays and what he showed.

* Sweeet Escape *

You can not treat pneumonia at home
it is obligatory to do an x-ray in the hospital and drink or stab the correct antibiotics (usually they are prescribed 2 each)

Anna Isakova

A nephew treated pneumonia at home. (in hospital, unbearable conditions) We were prescribed antibiotics intramuscularly. A familiar nurse came and set.

Olga Kononova

ceftrioxone in / m and symptomatic treatment only with examination. call the manager once the treatment is not appointed. Let them appoint. injections at home should be done by a district nurse and free of charge. Well, you can not spare a chocolate bar and that is not necessary. in russia if

Olya

I was sick at that age. I was given antibiotics four times a day. (at home)

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