What is the pneumonia?

What is the pneumonia?

The pneumonia is an infection that produces a serious inflammation in the lungs.

How occurs?

• The pneumonia is produced when the lungs are exposed to different germs to the ones that they are found there normally.  A pneumonia can be caused for infection to some of the following:
• The person was exposed to great quantity of virus or bacteria.
• Infection by mushrooms
• after to have been sick for example with flu (influenza, which weakens the immune system and affects the covering of the respiratory ways)
• If you have a permanent chronic illness as diabetes, chronic bronchitis or cancer, that do more sensitive to all kinds of infections.

Which are the symptoms?

• Fevers and chills
• Cough
• Difficulty to breathe
• Pain in the chest, above all al to inhale
• muscular Pains
• Cough with a little phlegm, at times with blood

¿How much time the effects last?

In general, will begin to be felt better after 2 or 3 days after to have begun the antibiotics.  If you are a healthy person, should return to its normal state after approximately a week.  If you have other medical problems, is possible that late more in being felt better.

¿Which is the processing?

The doctor determines the type of medicine according to her age, other how sick, medical conditions is the person and by means of the results of the x-rays and analysis of laboratory.  In most cases herself her antibiotic prescription and rest in the home.  The most common pneumonia nowadays is the viral form that affects especially youths and adults over 50 years.