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Diagnosing aspiration pneumonia. Diagnosis is based on clinical signs and symptoms of pneumonia when risk factors and history are consistent with the likelihood of aspiration. Testing usually includes O2 sat, chest X-ray (CXR), complete blood count (CBC), sputum Gram stain, and sputum culture.
If you have a very young child, spirometry is not practical. So the diagnosis is made based on your report of symptoms. Lung function tests. In an older child, lung function tests can diagnose asthma, determine its severity, and check for complications. Spirometry is the most common test to diagnose asthma in older children. It measures how quickly a child can move air in and out of the lungs and how much air is moved. Testing of daytime changes in peak expiratory flow (PEF) is done over 1 to 2 weeks.