Pneumonia

It is considered pneumonia to be artful illness. At a seeming simplicity of process (a bacterial inflammation of a fabric of a lung) it is rather diverse in the displays. Frequently the pneumonia is shown in such a manner that to suspect a pathology from lungs not too simply. Such feature of this illness is connected by that a huge role play age and conditions in which the pneumonia develops. The activators (bacteria) causing a pneumonia at the baby, the ill house, and at the elderly person who has ill during stay in hospital, essentially different, accordingly both displays, and treatment, and the forecast at these patients cardinally differ.

In most cases it is necessary to collide with a pneumonia which is complication SARS or with a pneumonia which begins at once, without any previous colds.

In this case the circle of microbes which doctors cause a pneumonia, and is known, selecting an antibiotic for treatment, are guided by this list of potentially possible activators. Necessity to consider what microbe has caused an inflammation, is dictated to what not all antibiotics act on all microbes. The choice of an antibiotic depends on that, how much concrete bacterium is sensitive to action of an antibacterial preparation.

The pneumonia is characterized, as was already spoken, varied symptoms.

Sudden rise of temperature up to 40 degrees, accompanied all over again dry cough, extremely bad state of health, a short wind (that is any physical activity, even minimal, causes the speeded up heavy breath). Thus there can be pains in the breasts amplifying at cough and deep breath. The pain can give to a stomach or is simple the stomach can hurt only. At a deep breath the fit of coughing is possible. Sometimes there is a reddening one cheek (from that side where the pain is marked). All this conforms so-called croupous to a pneumonia at which the inflammation covers the most part of a lung. Not all from the described symptoms are present necessarily, but the temperature, cough and sharp weakness meet practically constantly.

Illness begins as usual SARS: a cold, cough, temperature. After a while the temperature falls, and then again raises and does not decrease any more. It too a variant of current of a pneumonia.

The temperature does not rise above 38 degrees, but keeps almost constantly at this level, is accompanied by cough, weakness. It also can be a pneumonia.

At children criteria which should guard concerning possible presence of a pneumonia, the following are: duration of temperature above 38 degrees within three and more days; a short wind (the speeded up breath); sharp slackness, drowsiness.

The final diagnosis can be put only on the basis of x-ray of a thorax.