How dangerous is this disease?
Have pneumonia “classic” history of the development of the disease: cold, treated, and was on the mend, but… returned fever, cough, shortness of breath appeared. It is very important not to miss the beginning of the development of the disease and to diagnose the disease.
How not to miss the development of pneumonia? What threat this disease do if you suspect pneumonia the passage of the chest x-ray?
What types of pneumonia are
Pneumonia (pneumonia) referred to an infectious disease of the lungs. There are several types of illness: bacterial pneumonia, viral, atypical(the disease is caused by the so-called “atypical” pathogens – chlamydia, etc.), fungal. About half of the cases of pneumonia are caused by viruses. Having viral pneumonia on the background of the cold season and exposed to the same viruses that cause the flu and colds. This kind of disease are more susceptible to children.
Bacterial pneumonia more common in adults: the disease is caused by pneumococci, streptococci, staphylococci and other Symptoms of bacterial pneumonia are more pronounced than other kind of this disease. Atypical and fungal pneumonia are extremely rare and difficult to diagnose.
Why not all people become ill with pneumonia
Pneumonia often occur on the background of SARS and influenza, as secondary bacterial infection. Also healthy people with weakened immune systems can get sick with pneumonia after contact with the patient, which when dealing “handed” part of their pathogens.
The body of a healthy person with strong immune systems will fight off the infection together with the formed slime, which he will Odessit, removed from the body and pathogens. People with weakened immune systems cope with this problem worse.
Also a large risk of pneumonia in smokers. The villi, located in the mucosa and involved in the outflow of a sputum, smokers gradually die off. And, if the mechanism of evacuation of sputum from the body violated, the person can easily get sick with bronchitis. And then, with a large presence in the organism of microbial cells, and inflammation of the lungs is not far away.
How not to miss pneumonia
Characteristic signs of pneumonia – fever (often kept low-grade fever of 37.2 – 37.5 C), General intoxication, cough, weakness. These symptoms can develop again after suffering a person with SARS or their own. In some cases the cough may not be. Specialist must be able to distinguish pneumonia from bronchitis, focusing not only on the testimony of the patient, his condition and character of the rales when listening to the lungs. Therefore, for accurate diagnosis prescribed chest x-rays (x-ray examination of the lungs) of the chest.
If after acute respiratory illness, the body temperature returned to normal, the patient feels better and can talk about the recovery of the patient. But, if after the change of normal temperature (36,6 average) again “comes” temperature from 37 or above, you definitely need to do a chest x-ray and blood analysis. In terms of blood also determines the presence of inflammation in the body.
How to protect yourself from pneumonia
Patients with pneumonia and not knowing about his illness, from self-medication often complicate the situation. Having read the information on the Internet about the treatment of pneumonia, people buy in the pharmacy for antibiotics and started taking them. Such “Amateur” may not only help, but also aggravate the situation, until allergic reactions or worsening of other chronic diseases. Because you need to be sure in the diagnosis, know the cause of the disease, to find a suitable in this case, the drug.
Modern medicines make treatment of pneumonia effective and fast. However, much depends on the patient: if the condition is stabilized, you must do breathing exercises, move more, eat well. Active lifestyle, strong immunity and proper diet – the key to good health and resistance to any disease, not only pneumonia.
According to experts, if the person is young enough (not a child and not elderly), normally eats, tries to avoid stressful situations, playing sports and prevents the development of chronic diseases – from pneumonia just no chance!
