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Babies Pneumonia Symptoms. Often pneumonia begins after a cold, with symptoms beginning after 2 or 3 days of a cold or sore throat. To destroy the attacking organisms, white blood cells rapidly accumulate.

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Typically, signs and symptoms of pneumonia include fever and cough. Drawing in of the chest around the ribs and breastbone when breathing. Signs and symptoms of bacterial pneumonia usually begin more quickly than signs and symptoms of viral pneumonia.

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Fever, particularly during pneumonia caused by bacterial infection. Other symptoms include faster pulse, lips and nails turn bluish, and they may have trouble breathing (trying hard to breathe with the chest sinking in and flared nostrils). Infants affected with pneumonia at birth commonly show signs of illness such as would be expected from pneumonia, although the manifestations may be subtle and all the usual symptoms and signs are not regularly present. In addition to the symptoms listed above, all pneumonias share the following symptoms.