Family Fun Simply Gifted Expectant Fathers More Topics . . . She was seconds away from having to be placed in the hospital and it could have easily turned into pneumonia. Her lungs were extremely inflamed and infection could have set in at any time.
Pneumonia is nothing to play around with.
It is caused by viruses, bacteria, and parasites that are easily spread at daycares. Symptoms of pneumonia show up two or three days after a cold or sore throat and include fever, chills, cough, rapid breathing, wheezing, vomiting, decreased activity, loss of appetite, and a bluish gray color of the lips and fingernails. My daughter had all of these. This is an extremely contagious illness and is found in the fluids of the mouth or nose of affected children. Here we can see how easy it is for our children to catch and spread these viruses.