Protect Baby From the Dangers of Pneumonia

The forgoton killer, as the WHO for pneumonia illness, which included the collection of IPD disease. Your baby is protected?

Pneumonia or inflammation of the lung is a forgotten disease. In fact, based on data the World Health Organization WHO in 2003, this disease is the largest cause of mortality, over the measles, rotavirus, tetanus and hepatititis B.

The disease is caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, a bacterium which has more than 90 types and 11 of them classified as dangerous kind. These bacteria are found in the throat and nasal cavity of children and adults healthy, easily spread by spattered when the person coughs, sneezes or speaks.

If the baby is infected with this bacteria, the bacteria will live a normal life inside the nasal cavity and throat. However, when the baby down or recovering from an illness, these bacteria can infect.

The more threatening the babies and toddlers. In the scale of "light" and not spread into the blood, bacterial infection S. pneumoniae can cause inflammation of the ear and sinusitis. In a heavy scale, causing pneumonia (pneumonia) and other diseases, which can develop into malignant and deadly.
 
Results of research in Asian countries showed malignancy pneumonia. In the Philippines, Research Institute of Tropical Medicine late 1990 report, 35% of infants and children who died pneumococus infection. In Hong Kong, the study Dr. Susan Chiu says 19.4% of children carry the bacteria pneumococus in their respiratory tract.

In Malaysia, the National Morbidity Survey of 1996 mentions pneumococus bacterial infection is the cause of one third of patients under five who died from Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (ARI). In Singapore, in 2003, health experts reported Chong CY pneumococus bacteria causing infections in children aged 1-5 years. Morbidity rate increased from 0% in 1988 to 10.5% in 1999 or in other words, these diseases increasingly threaten the babies and children.

Parents often do not know if the baby suffered from pneumonia, because normal influenza-like illness symptoms: high fever, weakness, fatigue, coughing, rapid pulse, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting and headache. In infants, symptoms are invisible to the eye that looks fussy and no appetite.