Unpacking Pneumonia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

Pneumonia” a very serious health condition where a person’s lungs are filled with fluid. This makes it very hard for oxygen in the lungs to reach the blood stream” EPA (2018). Pneumonia can continue from two weeks to three weeks and then disappear and be very difficult in children and is the leading cause of death for children under the age of five years as well as people with other‏. Diseases and the elderly Development and understand the nature of pneumonia and knowledge of the reasons that lead to the disease even be avoided and symptoms Associated pneumonia even be able to the individual and the physician of the treatment of the disease in time.

The main cause of pneumonia is microbe, a bacterium or a specific virus that enters the lungs. “And fungi can all cause pneumonia. In the United States, common causes of viral pneumonia are influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). A common cause of bacterial pneumonia is Streptococcus Pneumoniae (Pneumococcus). Pneumonia can also result from being on a ventilator, which is known as ventilator-associated pneumonia” ATSDR (2017). Common causes of pneumonia include lung disease and problems, chronic diseases such as Asthma, Heart disease, Cancer and diabetes are major causes of the disease. Pneumonia, as well as people who are malnourished so that the body lacks the essential nutrients, also cause colds so that the lungs cannot resist the contaminants that enter them like germ “and immunocompromised patients. Therefore, it has many clinical forms and degrees of severity. The incident and severity of pneumonia are higher in the olderly, where it is not rarely fatal. Pneumonia causes more deaths than any other infectious disease. More than 90% of all deaths caused by pneumonia are recorded in the “elderly hrcak (2005).

Symptoms of pneumonia caused by bacteria Bacteria often have fever associated with vomiting, increased heart rate and normal breathing difficulty so that the individual is not able to take oxygen naturally, accompanied by pain in the chest with cough and cough accompanied by exit mucus or phlegm from the lungs. Sputum may be accompanied by blood or a balloon when symptoms of pneumonia are mild. They are called mycoplasmal. Symptoms of pneumonia may vary between young people and adults. Young people often do not suffer from a high degree of pneumonia. Heat and cough are not accompanied by phlegm either older people may affect pneumonia on mental purity After diagnosis of the disease, the doctor can determine the quality of pneumonia and the appropriate antibiotic quality. Antibiotics may help in the rapid recovery of bacterial pneumonia.

There are many antibiotics used to treat pneumonia such as Cazithromycim, Clarithromycin and Doxycycline. Viral pneumonia is treated by survival in the hospital to take oxygen and as the patient should be given sufficient amounts of fluids that relieve secretions and during the treatment of pneumonia should be provided many things to improve the patient’s feeling for example on the patient’s most comforts and access to has enough sleep to abstain from drinking and drinking large amounts of fluids In conclusion, pneumonia can occur as a result of infection. Infection can be caused by many different microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungus and parasites. Even the infection is avoided on the individual to do many things such as sports and hygiene habits as well as vaccinating children against bacteria and viruses causing pneumonia is the most successful way to prevent disease.

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