小儿肺炎是常见的一种呼吸道疾病,本病主要以发热、咳嗽、气急、鼻翼煽动为特征。在临床上多见于三岁以下的婴幼儿,一年四季均可发生,尤以冬春二季较为多见。祖国医学所记载类似肺炎的主要症状,喘咳(急),肺风痰喘,肺闭喘咳,肺热喘咳,马脾风,胸喉风,火热喘急等。其病多继发于感冒或麻疹及其他疾病的过程中,由于正气虚弱,外邪所侵,内蕴痰热,肺失宣降所致。若治疗不当,往往危及生命。 Pediatric pneumonia is a common respiratory disease. The disease is mainly characterized by fever, cough, shortness of breath, and alar turbulence. It is clinically more common in infants under the age of three and can occur throughout the year, especially in the winter and spring. The main symptoms of pneumonia, as recorded in the Motherland Medicine Institute, are cough and phlegm (pneumatosis), lung phlegm and breathlessness, pneumoconiosis, cough in the lungs, cough in the lungs, horse and spleen wind, chest-laryngeal wind, and hot breathlessness. The disease is mostly secondary to colds or measles and other diseases. Due to the weakness of the righteousness, exogenous pathogens invade, contagious heat, and loss of lungs. If not treated properly, it is often life-threatening.