Depending on the predominant symptoms and signs, a child presenting to the clinician can be divided into six groups, viz., stridor; cough, fever and difficulty in breathing or fast breathing; wheezing; mediastinal shift with severe respiratory distress; slow or irregular breathing in absence of ...
Children often present with typical barking cough and harsh stridor. These symptoms are often preceded by a viral prodrome of low-grade fever, running nose and cough. Usually the children are not toxic and they do not have drooling of saliva. The illness usually lasts for 2–5 days. If ...
After ingesting or inhaling laundry detergent powder, eight children required hospital admission. The predominant symptoms were stridor, drooling, and respiratory distress. All but one patient underwent endoscopy of the airways and the esophagus, five children were admitted to the intensive care unit,...
Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are common in children and generally self-limiting, yet often result in consultations to primary care. Frequent consult... T Andrews,M Thompson,DI Buckley,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 110发表: 2012年 Respiratory symptoms in children living near busy roads ...
At first, the condition was called adult respiratory distress syndrome, so people would not confuse it with a similar type of lung distress seen in infants. But because ARDS can also occur in children aged 1 and older, doctors now refer to it as acute respiratory distress syndrome. Acute ...
In children aged 6-17 y, all of the following: 1. physician diagnosis of asthma; 2. symptoms of asthma in past 12 mo; and 3. current treatment with asthma medications. Case Current persistent asthma, hospital admission, or clinic visit for asthma exacerbation, and all of the following: 1...
distresssyndrome(RDS),and,inthelong-term,with persistingpulmonaryabnormalities.Therapiestoprevent neonatallungdiseasenowpermitsurvivalofpreterm infantsbornasearlyas22weeks’gestationalage,butnot withoutconsequences. 3.Preterminfantsareatriskofdevelopingchronic ...
Eighty-eight children ranging in age from 2 to 64 months were seen in a pediatric practice for acute pulmonary symptoms, such as wheezing, cough, bronchiolitis, and respiratory distress. Throat cultures were performed for Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis. U. urealyticum was isolated from...
Respiratory tract infection is considered as one of the most important health problems with an enormous impact on patients and society, which shows higher incidence especially in children and some immunocompromised adults with symptoms ranging from the common cold to pneumonia13,14. With the development...
Children at any age were mostly reported to have mild respiratory symptoms, namely fever, dry cough, and fatigue, or were asymptomatic. Bronchial thickening and ground-glass opacities were the main radiologic features, and these findings were also reported in asymptomatic patients. Among the ...