pneumonia is a common disease nowadays. Both adults and children are likely to suffer from pneumonia. What are the symptoms of pneumonia? We all must be able to feel that when you have a cold, everyone in the family is afraid of pneumonia. Is pneumonia serious? What should we eat after you have pneumonia? If you want to know, you must continue to see it.
Symptoms of pneumonia
1, chills, high fever: Fever is a common symptom of pneumonia and a typical symptom of pneumonia. At this time, the body temperature is generally around 39℃~40℃, and it will also be accompanied by some discomfort symptoms, such as headaches, muscle soreness throughout the body, etc. Such symptoms are more common, especially among the elderly and infirm.
2. Cough, cough: Coughing is also a common situation in pneumonia. At first, it is just an irritating dry cough, but as the condition changes, it will cough up white mucus sputum or blood-stained sputum . After 1 to 2 days, mucus bloody sputum or rust-colored sputum can be coughed up, and it can also appear purulent sputum. The amount of sputum increases during the dissipation period, and the sputum is yellow and thin.
3, chest pain : After suffering from pneumonia, many patients will experience lateral chest pain, which is often acupuncture, and will also worsen with deep breathing and cough, which can radiate to the shoulders or abdomen. If the lower lobe pneumonia is used, it can stimulate the septal pleura and cause severe abdominal pain, and it is easily misdiagnosed as acute abdominal disease .
4. Difficulty in breathing: Pneumonia can cause symptoms such as dyspnea in the lungs, rapid and shallow breathing. When the condition is serious, it will directly affect the exchange of gas in the lungs, which will directly lead to a decrease in the blood oxygen saturation of the human artery and cyanosis.
5. Other symptoms: a few have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, bloating or diarrhea. Severely infected people may experience blurred consciousness, irritability, drowsiness, , coma, etc.
Is pneumonia serious?
Pneumonia is more dangerous to children, the elderly and the weak, etc. with low immunity. Bacterial infection of adult pneumonia is common in Streptococcus pneumonia . Other pathogens include anaerobic bacteria , Staphylococcus aureus , Haemophilus influenzae , Chlamydia pneumonia, Chlamydia psittisca, Chlamydia trachoma and other Gram-negative bacilli, etc.
Toxemia, hypoxia and cellular metabolism disorders can also lead to lethargy, coma, convulsions, intestinal paralysis, acute heart failure, shock, jaundice, etc.
In addition to these non-specific complications, further expansion of infection can also cause various specific complications, such as infection can spread to the pleural cavity and cause empyema, and blood dissemination can also lead to pleurisy , endocarditis , pericarditis , arthritis, etc.
Pneumonia can also cause lung tissue necrosis and lead to lung abscess , which is commonly found in Staphylococcus and Clebsella pneumoniae infections. These possibilities should be considered when the infection symptoms do not disappear or worsen during the treatment of interstitial pneumonia, or when the symptoms of interstitial pneumonia that are not explained by pneumonia are present.
Generally speaking, the incidence of these complications has now dropped significantly.
When the bronchial is blocked due to accumulation of viscous secretions, mucosal swelling or bronchial smooth muscle spasm, patients with interstitial pneumonia will experience emphysema or atelectasis in the distal lung tissue.
Long-term incomplete obstruction can lead to bronchial dilation or lung abscess. Babies under half a year old have a small bronchial tiny and prone to obstruction. Acute bronchiolithritis can occur when viral infections such as respiratory fusion viruses.
At this time, the bronchial, alveolar and interstitial inflammation are all present, and the clinical features are dry cough, onset dyspnea and emphysema.
When suffering from interstitial pneumonia, the stretching of lung tissue is reduced due to consolidation, chest pain also limits the expansion of the chest cavity, and the surfactant substances in the lungs will also decrease due to inflammation, resulting in increased surface tension of the alveoli, which also causes difficulties in dilation.
All this will make interstitial pneumonia patients pay more force to expand the chest cavity (reduced compliance). However, in general pneumonia, bronchial resistance does not increase much.
Therefore, the patient can instead take shallow and fast breathing. This is a compensation mechanism. After the condition improves, the respiratory rate will drop rapidly.
