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Is My Child Suffering From Pneumonia With Cold Since Birth?

My baby is two and had a cold since birth ... Last year he had to be hospitalized for collapsed lung due he was drowning in his own snot. Now he is back with all those symptoms, diarrhea , fever, will not wat, lil weight loss but it hasn t slowed his activities down.. Do I need to take him to ER? Do it sound like pneumonia ?
Mon, 27 Oct 2014
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Hi....as you say he has all similar symptoms with which he was hospitalized last year with pneumonia, I suggest you take him to the hospitalized and get him cchecked by a doctor. It could as well be a wheezing or congenital tracheomalacia or lung collapse due to thick mucus. Take him to hospital.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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Is My Child Suffering From Pneumonia With Cold Since Birth?

Hi....as you say he has all similar symptoms with which he was hospitalized last year with pneumonia, I suggest you take him to the hospitalized and get him cchecked by a doctor. It could as well be a wheezing or congenital tracheomalacia or lung collapse due to thick mucus. Take him to hospital. Regards - Dr. Sumanth