China - Mycoplasma pneumonia up 40% causing surge at Shenyang pediatric hospitals, Liaoning province - January 18, 2017

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[h=1]Shenyang has three years of children a small peak of cold[/h]

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[FONT=&quot]2017-01-18 08:53 Source: Shenyang Daily Author: Shang Zhiwen
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[FONT=&#24494]　　In recent days, pediatric outpatient cold children get together to see a doctor, respiratory ward beds were full, which can worry about children with parents, but also busy medical staff. In the end what causes a number of hospital respiratory ward a hard to find? Pediatric outpatient queuing infusion? January 16, the reporter learned from the Shenyang Children's Hospital, the hospital pediatric outpatient amount per day has been as high as 2300 people, small hospitalized patients, four into mycoplasma infection in children. Mycoplasma infection in children with long course of disease, illness, resulting in a number of pediatric outpatient Chen Cheng, ward crowded.[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　Experts said the child had just a fever symptoms, can not carry, nor can medication, found the child to prescribe a cold medicine and timely treatment.[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　This time a long cold peak[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　"Every winter is the pediatric outpatient traditional treatment peak, but this is particularly early, the patient suddenly increased due to rapid growth, all of a sudden up a lot of patients, the bed within half of all the full." Shenyang Children's Hospital Outpatient department director Li Zhe expresses. Not only that, the peak period of the disease is longer, "the number of children in previous years there will be changes in peak trough, this year there has been a high amount of outpatient status."[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　This reporter learned that, Shenyang Children's Hospital Pediatric clinic usually day outpatient amount of about 1,500 people, the current outpatient volume has reached 2300 people, compared with last winter peak outpatient volume increased by 20%. "This year is the highest number of children since 2013."[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　Mycoplasma infection in children accounted for four into[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　Not only in the City Children's Hospital, Shengjing Hospital, maternal and child hospitals and other hospitals have emerged pediatric full situation. In the end is what causes a surge in hospital children?[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　Li Zhe said that this year the situation in children with different conditions in previous years, a sudden increase in children with mycoplasma infection. "In previous years, children with mycoplasma infection can generally account for about 10% to 15% even more, but this year in hospitalized children reached 40%.[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　This reporter has learned that mycoplasma pneumonia mainly through the respiratory tract, and mycoplasma infection in children with relatively heavy disease, most of the need for hospital treatment, hospital length is also long. Li Zhe introduction, due to viruses, bacterial infections in children can be discharged a week or so, there are other basic diseases, children with low immunity is also hospitalized for about ten days. However, children with mycoplasma infection should be hospitalized for more than 10 days. Mycoplasma infection is more serious symptoms, a large proportion of children, long turnaround period, several factors in one, resulting in outpatient infusion volume and patient overcrowding.[/FONT]​

[FONT=&#24494]　　In order to divert patients, the hospital in some departments increasing staff, specialist clinic or even dragged to the morning also continue to clinics.

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