Comments on: Toddlers and Pneumonia

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!!