Question
Does newborn pneumonia present with fever symptoms?
Answer
The characteristics of newborn pneumonia typically include low-grade fever, or even no fever or rising body temperature. Atypical clinical manifestations are also characteristic of newborn pneumonia, such as cyanosis around the lips, extremities, and nail beds, pale or gray skin, general poor condition, little or no crying, listlessness, rapid breathing, sometimes irregular breathing, frothing at the mouth, wide nostrils, flaring nostrils, visible three Depression signs, choking on milk, and rejection of milk. Diagnosis mainly relies on clinical history, such as a history of amniotic fluid aspiration, contact history with respiratory infection patients, and the aforementioned atypical clinical manifestations.