Nutritional Parameters and Other Risk Factors Affecting Severity of Pneumonia in Children Under Five Years in Upper Egypt

Nutritional Parameters and Other Risk Factors Affecting Severity of Pneumonia in Children Under Five Years in Upper Egypt

Decrease mortality rate resulting from pneumonia

Recruiting patients with pneumonia admitted at Assiut University hospital . Then assessment of their condition and severity of pneumonia by examination and X-ray chest . After that, we aim at assessment their nutrition status and it's effect on severity of pneumonia. So we aim to investigate them by CBC, Albumin, CRP and CXR and correlate these parameters with the severity of pneumonia to assess the impact of nutrition on outcome of chest infections

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of pneumonia on day 1 of hospital admission.

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with cardiac diseases
• patients with immune deficiency disorders