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Be alert when your child has a high fever and cough for more than 5 days

BY Iris Wheatley 2020-08-01

  Three months after I went to the clinic, I have diagnosed five children with lobar pneumonia, and the parents of two of them are friends who are studying physical, spiritual and spiritual growth courses with me. When the chest radiograph came out, the parents of the child did not expect the child to be so serious. But in the end they accepted this fact and lived in our respiration group, and lived in the bed of my teacher and professor. After treatment, the children are now discharged from the hospital. Yesterday afternoon, I called out a few children’s cases for a brief analysis and shared them with parents, hoping to give them some inspiration.

  These children have a common Characteristics:

  1. Older children (both are in elementary school age), usually in good health.

   2. High fever accompanied by coughing for more than 5 days, oral antibiotics are not effective enough, so he went to a big hospital for treatment.

   3. At the time of examination, no signs of pneumonia were noticed with stethoscope.

   4. All of them have been seen in other hospitals, and all of them were diagnosed as "sense". They only checked the blood routine and did not do further examination.

  Reminder for parents:

   1. When the child has a fever, especially high fever (above 39 degrees) for more than 3 days, be sure to go to the hospital for treatment, it is best to go directly to a big hospital , It is not recommended to go to a small clinic.

   2. When high fever is accompanied by coughing for more than 3 days, especially older children, even if they are usually in good health, they must listen to the doctor’s advice and take chest X-rays if necessary.

   3. Even if the child is usually in good health and has a fever for more than three days, especially if the fever persists, he must not be careless and feel lucky. It is necessary to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. It is absolutely not allowed to go to a big hospital for a test by fluke for more than 5 days.

  4. If the child is seriously ill, the infusion will be infused, and you must not hesitate. Antibiotics are the lives of children. They are definitely not poisons.

  5. The growth of body and mind is very helpful to the growth of our parents, but we cannot learn dogmatically, and we must not forget that the basis of body and mind is the body, not the spirit. Most of the time, we are mortal and sick Love alone cannot cure a child’s disease. The so-called "lack of love" theory does not apply to all sick children, especially when acute fever and cough are sick.

   6. The prevalence of pneumonia has changed a lot in recent years. Lobar pneumonia and severe pneumonia are increasing year by year. In the past, the incidence of lobar pneumonia in children was more common in winter and spring, but now the incidence in summer has also become an upward trend. This year, the temperature fluctuates significantly, and the density of students in school classrooms is also one of the reasons that can not be ignored. In addition, many children initially consulted in the community or individual clinics, lack of corresponding laboratory tests, irregular use of antibiotics, hormone abuse, etc. It may be one of the causes of the spread of pneumonia lesions.

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