中西医不同角度对儿童新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)的认识

2019年12月以来,以湖北省武汉市为中心陆续发现了多例新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)患者。人群普遍易感,儿童亦有感染病例出现,感染波及新生儿、婴幼儿,并且已出现儿童重症病例。儿童感染病例引起了社会高度重视。目前COVID-19病理机制尚不清楚,治疗亦缺乏特效药,这些问题都给疫情防控和临床救治带来极大困难。尝试从中西医不同角度认识儿童COVID-19,分析儿童COVID-19病因、流行特点、病情发展特点及治疗措施,同时从中医角度探讨儿童COVID-19病因病机、辨证及治疗方法,能更好地通过中西医结合对此次儿童COVID-19进行深入了解,理解其病理之基础,分析目前疫情发展之趋势,并在此基础上寻找安全有效的防治措施,以期对临床更好地防治儿童COVID-19提供参考。

Understanding of COVID-19 in children from different perspectives of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine

Since December 2019, Wuhan city of Hubei Province has been the center of a number of patients infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). People are susceptible to be infected. The infection has spread to newborn and small infants, and severe cases of children have now occurred. Cases of infection in children have drawn great attention from the society. The pathogenesis of COVID-19 is unclear, and there is no specific drug for treatment, which brings great difficulties to epidemic prevention and clinical treatment. In this paper, we try to understand COVID-19 in children from different perspectives of TCM and western medicine. We also try to analyze the etiology, epidemic characteristics, disease development characteristics and treatment measures of COVID-19 in children. At the same time, we try to explore the etiology, pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation and treatment of COVID-19 in children with TCM. It is hoped that the combination of TCM and western medicine can better understand the new coronavirus pneumonia in children and its pathological basis, analyze the current trend of the epidemic situation, so as to find out safe and effective prevention and control measures and provide reference for clinical prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in children.