Pertussis should be how is it treated?
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(A) treatment
1. The general treatment of respiratory tract diseases according to isolation, to keep quiet room, the air fresh and suitable temperature, humidity, to avoid the noise and excitement. In order to maintain airway patency and facilitate secretion of discharges, when the attention of infants and young children cough spasm bow position to shoot back. Sputum by suctioning a timely manner. In order to prevent sudden infant suffocation, especially in the night-prone, there should be hand guard. Time to do the event of asphyxia resuscitation, suction, oxygen, when necessary, mouth to mouth breathing. Respiratory pause or convulsions of the baby into the tracheal intubation and continuous positive airway pressure respiratory oxygen therapy can improve respiratory function or reducing the hypoxic state, against the existence of atelectasis, reduce the throat and bronchial spasm. Salbutamol (salbutamol) 0.3mg / (kg · d), divided into 3 sub-oral, can lift its spasm symptoms, can reduce infant respiratory distress. Such as the application to be ineffective, the choice of sedative, phenobarbital 2 ~ 3mg / (kg · times), or chlorpromazine 0.5 ~ 1.0mg / (kg · times), 2 times / d or 3 times / d, oral .
2. Antibiotic treatment of early onset that the catarrhal period of antibiotic treatment, the effect is better, spasm cough period of poor efficacy, but the bacteria can shorten the waiting time, the preferred erythromycin and 30 ~ 50mg / (kg · d), medication 7 ~ 14 days. Second, the choice of chloramphenicol, 30 ~ 50mg / (kg · d), but can also use ampicillin, gentamicin intravenous infusion or intramuscular injection. Sulfamethoxazole / trimethoprim (sulfamethoxazole) is also effective. Recently, a new generation of macrolide antibiotics such as roxithromycin, azithromycin has significant efficacy.Antibiotic treatment regimens for 2 weeks.
3. Adrenal hormones can reduce skin symptoms and shorten the course of the disease, but should pay attention to drug side effects. 6 ~ 9-month-old infants can choose betamethasone (betamethasone) 0.075mg / (kg · d), or hydrocortisone 30mg / (kg · d), intramuscular injection, two days after the gradual reduction, medication 7 ~ 8 days withdrawal.
4. Pertussis immunoglobulin (P-IVIG) 2.5ml (400μg/ml), intramuscular injection, a time / d, used in conjunction 3 to 5 days for children with severe, young infants and dose halved.
5. Chinese medicine treatment of spasm view to Qingfei cough cough, phlegm mainly the choice of almonds, melon-jen, reed rhizome, peach kernel, Aster, 100, licorice root, Rhizoma Imperatae, such as addition and subtraction Tinglizi. Bile treatment of pertussis better results that can inhibit the pertussis bacillus, sedative, you can reduce the array cough. Fresh chicken Kudan add sugar, 1 ~ 5 months the baby three days served a gall bladder; 5 months to 1 years of age, 2 days served a gall bladder; 1 ~ 3 years old a / d, min 2 or 3 times clothes.
6. Complication of treatment
(1), pulmonary infections: give antibiotics, selection of penicillin and cephalosporins, intravenous drip.
(2) Pertussis encephalopathy: In addition to providing them with effective antibiotic therapy, the use of sedatives may make use of phenobarbital 5mg / (kg · times) intramuscular injection, or diazepam 0.1 ~ 0.3mg / (kg · times) intramuscular injection or intravenous injection. Difficult to control seizures can choose amobarbital sodium 5mg / (kg · times), or the diluted intravenous therapy using hibernation.With cerebral edema mannitol or sorbitol 1 ~ 2g / (kg · times), intravenous injection. In addition, the application of adrenal cortex hormones to reduce cerebral edema.
(B) the prognosis
With age, previous health status and whether or not related complications. The younger the worse the prognosis, infants with poor prognosis disease, complicated with bronchial pneumonia, pertussis encephalopathy and a poor prognosis.