Comments on: Toddlers and Pneumonia

By: Alvaro Butler

Alvaro Butler — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:18:25 +0000

I also have a baby grandchild, and Pneumonia makes me scare too. Pneumonia is a very frightening disease, but of course all of the diseases that attack the baby will be very scary and make us panic. That’s why we must respond it quickly and efficiently when there is something wrong happen to our baby, in order to obtain quick and precise handling.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:10:34 +0000

My 7 year old son recently had pneumonia, and our doctor prescribed this antibiotic called Zmax. It was like the usual Zpak that I used to take, only my son took 1 liquid dose and he was done. That was the whole treatment. He started feeling better 2 days later, and now he’s as good as new.
I was scared when he got pneumonia, because he hates taking medicine, and I know that it’s important to take antibiotics and not miss a dose or they don’t work right.
This Zmax was great, because I only had to give him his medicine once.

By: dianna

dianna — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:31:13 +0000

my boyfriend and i just brought home our 15 month old baby boy yesterday. he went into the hospital nov. 10th 2009. they kept him there hooked up to an iv for 3 nights and 2 days. took a whole day for them to figure out why his body had a high white blood cell count. we brought him in for a high flu. doctors tested high mouth, ears, blood, and urine before trying a chest x ray. during the whole first day and night they had a liquid iv hooked up to him before they found out what the real problem was. we brought him in with a 102 fever. the hospital got him fever down to 97 and stopped giving him flu medicine where his flu then went up to 104. i was so glad they found it. my baby was shaking and breathing hard the night we brought him in.

By: Jacques & Sarie

Jacques & Sarie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:30:34 +0000

Parents must understand that pneumonia is a very dangerous affliction especially in young children. It is not okay to leave your baby or toddler with a runny nose and a little temperature to run around with the belief that it will go away. Pneumonia kills 10 – 25% of all patients who need hospitalization for pneumonia. This by and large includes small children and the aged and frail. That amounts to about 61,776 people n the USA alone every year. Now Pneumonia is usually preceded by a common cold or flu which is left unattended. Common flu is another BIG baby killer. The death rate extrapolations from the NVSR for USA for Flu is: 63,729 per year, 5,310 per month, 1,225 per week, 174 per day, 7 per hour. That scares me into taking precaustions like flu jabs, innoculations and a keen eye for unwanted symptoms especially during winter. Do not take this topic lightly parents, remember, the old adage of it never happens to me…yeah right!

By: Claudio

Claudio — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:40:51 +0000

My daughter is just three weeks old.
I hope she will not get a pneumonia. My wife had it when she was a baby and she almost died!!