Age Diseases Children below 2 months Severe Pneumonia Very Severe Pneumonia Bronchiolitis of infancy -symptoms: cough or difficult breathing and -signs: 60 or more breaths per minute, or severe chest indrawing -and no general danger signs (the sign ‘stopped feeding well’ in young infants replaces ‘unable to drink’ of the older children as a danger sign), wheezing, stridor in calm child or fever or low body temperature -symptoms: cough or difficult breathing -and signs: general danger signs, wheezing, stridor in a calm child or fever or low body temperature -Clinically diagnosed respiratory condition presenting with breathing difficulties, cough, poor feeding, and irritability and, in the very young, apnea. These clinical features, together with wheeze and/or crepitations on auscultation combine to make the diagnosis. -bronchiolitis most commonly presents in infants aged three to six months Children 2 months up to 5 years old Pneumonia Severe pneumonia -symptoms: cough or difficult breathing -and signs: 50 or more breaths per minute for infants age 2 months up to 1 year, or 40 or more breaths per minute for children age 1 up to 8 years old -and no chest indrawing, general danger signs, stridor in calm child or severe malnutrition -symptoms: cough or difficult breathing andsigns: chest indrawing -and no general danger signs, stridor in a calm child or severe malnutrition

Table 1: Case definition of pneumonia [5] and Bronchiolitis [6].