Vaccine
The cause of a cyanotic and irritable cough is not asthma, but it is pneumonia. Coughs and chills that the child experience are due to pronounced pneumonia. The symptoms are also visible in paroxysmal coughing and fast breathing. The temperature noted is 103 degrees that confirm pneumonia. The reported issues of cough and congestion for last two weeks also confirms the condition of pneumonia. Presence of highly elevated leukocyte count is also the cause of enlarged lymph nodes, a prominent condition of pneumonia (Zhang, Qiu, Tang, & Xu, 2017). The condition and x-ray results of the child depicts that he did not catch the disease from his exposure to the neighborhood child. The conditions indicate that the child did not have asthma as the infectious agent is pneumonia. The assumption of the mother is wrong as the child does not have asthma. Common viruses that lead to the development of pneumonia include influenza, hemophiliac influenza, measles and varicella. Viruses and bacteria are more common in causing pneumonia.
Medicine reveals that the disease of pneumonia is preventable as several vaccines are available that minimizes the risks. The vaccines are effective in preventing infections from the bloodstreams. Early vaccination during childhood minimizes the risks of developing pneumonia. Personal hygiene eliminates the risks of developing pneumonia. The common self-care practices involve washing hands regularly, limiting contact with smokers and tissues used for sneezing or coughing. To cure the child with pneumonia, the mother needs to seek medical care as several vaccines exist that works to treat children with the disease. Vaccines improve the survival and health of the child by removing viruses of pneumonia (Madhi & Klugman, 2004). Haemophilus influenza, streptococcus pneumonia and Hib are common vaccines used to treat children with pneumonia (Madhi, Levine, Hajjeh, Mansoor, & Cheriand, 2008).
References
Zhang, L., Qiu, S., Tang, C., & Xu, J. (2017). Adult community-acquired pneumonia with unusually enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes: A case report. Exp Ther Med, 14 (1), 87–90.
Madhi, S. A., & Klugman, K. P. (2004). A role for Streptococcus pneumoniae in virus-associated pneumonia. Nat Med, 10, 811–
Madhi, S. A., Levine, O. S., Hajjeh, R., Mansoor, O. D., & Cheriand, T. (2008). Vaccines to prevent pneumonia and improve child survival. Bull World Health Organ, 65 (5), 365–372.
