Community acquired pneumonia(CAP) in children: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatments
Community acquired pneumonia is a leading cause of death in children under five in developing countries and accounts for 29% of all deaths worldwide for children under five years of age. The incidence of pneumonia is ten times higher in developing countries than in developed countries. Between 1939 and 1996 in the United States, children's pneumonia mortality declined by 97%. Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) has been one of the major causes of bacterial pneumonia, but it has been reduced by the introduction of vaccines, which is thought to have decreased with the expansion of medical insurance for antibiotics, vaccines and children. Causes Most cases of pneumonia are caused by microbial infections, but food, gastric acid, foreign body aspiration, and hypersensitivity reactions are the noninfective causes. It is difficult to find the cause of pneumonia in individual patients. First, lung tissue biopsy is so invasive that it is rarely performed. 2) Sputum does not show the cause...