Question
What are the characteristics if a two-month-old child has pneumonia?
Answer
Pneumonia often develops on the basis of a cold, so early symptoms commonly include fever, runny nose, coughing, and sneezing. If it worsens further, it may present with rapid breathing, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing. Newborns may not show typical symptoms and can exhibit symptoms such as choking while feeding, blue lips around the mouth, vomiting, refusal to breastfeed, rapid breathing, and frothy saliva. The lungs can be heard to produce dry and moist rales. Chest X-rays may reveal patchy shadows in the lungs. According to the World Health Organization’s diagnostic criteria for this disease: if there is an increase in respiratory rate, infants