The infant with tachypnea or wheeze - Clinical Conditions to Consider
- Bronchiolitis
- Pneumonia
- Transient early wheezing - with viral infections, risk
increased in preterm and maternal smoking
- Non-atopic wheezing - following viral lower respiratory
infection
- Atopic asthma — recurrent wheezing, eczema, positive
family history of allergy/atopy
- Cardiac failure — respiratory distress, heart murmur,
hepatomegaly
- Inhaled foreign body — choking on peanut Or toy, etc.
- Aspiration Of feeds — especially with neuromuscular
disorder
- Other causes
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