Clinical features

The following are common clinical features of pneumonia:

• Cough
• Difficulty in breathing
• Fast breathing
  • Age <2 months: ≥60/minute
  • Age 2–11 months: ≥50/minute
  • Age 1–5 years: ≥40/minute
• Nasal flaring
• Grunting (in young infants)
• Lower chest wall indrawing
• Decreased breath sounds
• Bronchial breath sounds
• Crackles
• Abnormal vocal resonance (decreased over a pleural effusion, increased over lobar consolidation)
• Pleural rub.