Objectives To summarize the experience of nursing care to children with dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia.Methods The nursing histories of 11 cases of children dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia were retrospectively looked into for summarizing the nursing measures.Results The diseases were both effectively controlled in all the children,who were given maintenance therapy by oral taking of hormone after discharge.Conclusion Such nursing measures as close observation of disease,enhanced nursing and first aid of respiratory failure,nursing of infection and secondary infection,care after mesenchymal stem cells transplantation,strengthened disinfection and isolation,are of significance for controlling the disease.