Abstract: Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is among the serious health problems specifically in less than 5 years of age needing hospitalisation and attributes to 30 % of deaths yearly worldwide especially due to pneumonia as the leading cause. LRTI is infection listed below the level of the throat and might be taken to include: Bronchiolitis, Bronchitis, Pneumonia and empyema. This review aims to evaluate the incident and effect of Hyponatremia among children with LRTI, and to highlight the more important aspect in this subject. We conducted a comprehensive review through electronic search among two databases which are; PubMed (MIDLINE), and EMBASE, for all studies evaluating hyponatremia in children with lower respiratory tract infection, we limited our search to English language articles, we use following terms in our identified search; lower respiratory tract infection, OR pneumonia, OR bronchiolitis OR acute respiratory syndrome, combined with Children, AND Neonatal. we excluded all studies that involving patients older than 17 years old. We concluded that hyponatremia is common amongst children hospitalized with lower breathing tract infections. Every year Acute respiratory infections in young kids is responsible for a quote 3.9 million deaths worldwide. Hyponatremia was typically due to Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti Diuretic Hormone secretion (SIADH). Presence of hyponatremia substantially increases the morbidity and mortality amongst kids with lower respiratory system infections.
Keywords: (MIDLINE), and EMBASE, Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti Diuretic Hormone secretion (SIADH).
Title: Hyponatremia in Children with Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Overview
Author: Alkahtani Hassan Nasser, Alshehri Abdulaziz Abdullah, Alshahrani Abdullah Saad, Alshahrani Mohammed Shari, Alqahtani Abdullah Saif
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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