Helping children recover quickly from pneumonia.

According to Dr. Tran Thu Thuy: Chest percussion should be performed on an empty stomach, ideally before a meal or at the earliest 1 hour after eating to avoid inducing vomiting.

According to Dr. Tran Thu Thuy (National Children's Hospital), when children have pneumonia, parents should use chest percussion therapy combined with postural drainage to help remove accumulated secretions from the lungs, clear the lungs, and help the child recover faster.

You can perform chest percussion several times a day.When performing chest percussion, follow these steps: Cover the baby with a thin cloth (if the baby is shirtless), avoiding direct contact with the skin. Bend your hand at the wrist and cup your hand.

Keep your thumb pressed against your index finger. When you tap your chest, you will hear a hollow, popping sound caused by air trapped between your cupped palm and your rib cage.If the sound you make is flat, like when clapping, you need to check because your hand might not be curved enough. Clapping correctly shouldn't be painful.

When tapping the chest, move only your wrist, not your arm or shoulder. Tap the left side, then the right. Be careful not to tap the stomach, sternum, or spine. Continue tapping firmly and steadily, but not too forcefully, for about 3-5 minutes in each area.

Coughing clears the airways and expels secretions from the lungs. For older children, encourage them to cough after each chest percussion session. Do not continue chest percussion until the child has stopped coughing.

Follow these steps: Have the child sit up, tilting their head slightly forward; inhale; open their mouth and contract their abdominal muscles to cough deeply, avoiding coughing from the throat; inhale again. Continue coughing until phlegm is expelled. For young children, a doctor may use a suction device to remove mucus from the throat.

To help mucus drain easily, children are positioned to take advantage of gravity, allowing secretions to move from the small bronchial branches into the trachea. The secretions are then suctioned from the pharynx or coughed up by the child.

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