Table 4 Ways of describing symptoms of ARIs exhibited by children

Medical staff

   - Lower chest drawing inwards

   - Wheezing

   - Crepitations (a noise like a plastic bag being crushed or the sound of walking over snow)

   - Tubaric murmur (the noise made when one blows into a glass bottle)

   - Stridor (a high pitched sound when breathing)

   - Nasal flaring

   - Runny or blocked nose

Caretakers

   - Chest problems

   - Not breathing well

   - Breathing with a lot of effort

   - Breathing rapidly

   - Breathing loudly

   - Breathing more towards the top, but not always