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Respiratory Exam | |||
==== Respiratory Exam: ==== | |||
During this exam, the doctor takes the child's medical history and asks about any respiratory symptoms or previous illness. The doctor is observing the child's respiratory movement, during breathing. Also the doctor is listening with a stethoscope, for unusual breathing sounds, such as crackling or wheezing. He also taps on the child's chest. | |||
==== Sputum Culture: ==== | |||
The doctor takes a sample from the child's mucus, He takes this sample to look for the present bacteria infection. In other words he reviewed this sample and gave the child the most effective medicine. | |||
==== Lung Function Tests: ==== | |||
==== Spirometry ==== | |||
==== Bronchiodilator Challenge Test ==== | |||
==== Impulse Oscillometry ==== | |||
==== Exercise Challenge ==== | |||
==== Bronchoscopy ==== | |||
==== Chest X-ray ==== | |||
==Treatment== | ==Treatment== | ||
Revision as of 00:06, 13 August 2020
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| Diagnosis |
| Treatment |
| Do's |
| Don'ts |
Overview
Cough is a symptom and not a disease, it is a reflex that help your child to clear the airway from secretion, protects the airway from foreign body aspiration, and can be the manifesting symptoms of a disease. cough come in many types, including wet and dry.
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
There is no research on this topic.
Common Causes
Noninfectious causes
1.Asthma
- Hygiene hypothesis
- Genetic
- Medical condition
- exacerbation
2.Gastroesophageal reflux disease
3.Upper- airway cough syndrome 4.Smoking ( active or passive)
5.Nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis
6.Cystic fibrosis
7.Forgien- body aspiration
8.Extrinsic airway compression
Infectious causes
1.Chronic sinusitis with upper-airway cough syndrome
2.Pyogenic bacterial pneumonia
3.Prolonged bacterial bronchitis
4.Tuberculosis
5.Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
6.chlamydophila pnueumoniae infection
7.Pertussis
8.Respiratory viral infections ( influenza, adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza)
FIRE: Focused Initial Rapid Evaluation
Complete Diagnostic Approach
Respiratory Exam:
During this exam, the doctor takes the child's medical history and asks about any respiratory symptoms or previous illness. The doctor is observing the child's respiratory movement, during breathing. Also the doctor is listening with a stethoscope, for unusual breathing sounds, such as crackling or wheezing. He also taps on the child's chest.
Sputum Culture:
The doctor takes a sample from the child's mucus, He takes this sample to look for the present bacteria infection. In other words he reviewed this sample and gave the child the most effective medicine.
Lung Function Tests:
Spirometry
Bronchiodilator Challenge Test
Impulse Oscillometry
Exercise Challenge
Bronchoscopy
Chest X-ray
Treatment
Shown below is an algorithm summarizing the treatment of [[disease name]] according the the [...] guidelines.
Do's
- Call your doctor
Don'ts
- The content in this section is in bullet points.
References
The Nemours Foundation: "Cough Instruction Sheet."
American Academy of Pediatrics: "Cough"and "Treating Bronchiolitis in Infants