According to the World Health Organization, 15% of all deaths among children under 5 years of age are due to pneumonia. In 2015, the disease claimed 920,136 children’s lives worldwide. In this article, we will look at how to recognize the symptoms of pneumonia in children, as well as how to treat it with simple, inexpensive drugs with proper care, as well as prevent it with simple measures.

The study of the clinical course of community-acquired pneumonia in young children from large families was conducted. The study was retrospective. Children suffered from community-acquired pneumonia of moderate and severe severity. Revealed that community-acquired pneumonia often suffers from young children, mostly boys.

Respiratory diseases, which occupy a leading place in the structure of child morbidity, tend to recur frequently, especially in early childhood, and contribute to the chronization of the process, reduce the quality of life of children and their parents. This work is devoted to an urgent problem: the treatment and prevention of acute pneumonia in young children from large families. Timely diagnosis and pathogenetic therapy of acute pneumonia will help to ease the severity of the process, avoid possible complications, and develop rehabilitation measures.