The difference between viral pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia is that viral pneumonia is caused by the influenza virus (the flu) and is treated by humididfied air, increased fluid intake, and the incubation period is only about 1-5 days. Cough, headache, muscle stiffness, shortness of breath, fever and chills, sweating and fatigue are all symptoms of vira pneumonia.
Bacterial pneumonia is caused by streptococcus pneumoniae and is helped with antibiotics, fluid intake, supplemental oxygen, bed rest, chest physical therapy, bronchidilators, and cough suppresents and the incubation period is around 6 months. Symptoms of bacterial pneumonia include, sudden fever, chills, a productice cough, and discomfort in chest. There are similarities in the two viruses also, but they are very different too.
Pneumonia is caused by bacteria or viruses and the symptoms are very similar. The pathogen is different and therefore, the treatment is different. Pneumonia can also be caused by inhalation of irritating substances and smoke or by fluid or food aspiration into the lungs. Often bacterial pneumonia can be a secondary infection with viral pneumonia.
Boil it down to viral vs bacterial. Viral cannot be cured, while bacterial can be. Bacterial also usually just gets right to work, while a virus may lay dormant for many years, and can be passed through heredity.
All colds are viral. This is why antibiotics are not effective against the common cold, and are only (very rarely) prescribed for their placebo effect. Prescribing antibiotics for a viral infection not only doesn't help destroy the disease, it will also make the antibiotic less effective against other diseases in the future. Sometimes bacterial infections will accompany a common cold, in which case the use of antibiotics is valid to treat the symptoms of the bacterial infection. It may alleviate those symptoms, but it will not help cure the cold itself. A disease caused by bacteria is never a common cold, but some bacterial infections may have similar symptoms.
Depends on the virus and the bacteria. There are viruses that are more deadly than some bacteria, and vice versa. However, in general, a bacterial pneumonia is more dangerous, as they tend to clog the alveoli and small airways with mucus and can cause abcesses.
One's a virus and one's caused by bacteria. Um, apart from that, I'm not really sure, except there's a vaccine for one of them...I think it's the viral one. Also antibiotics work on the bacterial one but not the viral meningitis.
Between viral and bacterial pneumonia bacterial is the worst. Viral pneumonia usually gets better on its own while bacterial pneumonia needs to be treated with antibiotics and sometimes hospitalization.
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The worst kind of pneumonia is the Viral type. This is where the virus has to run through your body until it ends compared to bacterial pneumonia which can be treated with antibiotics and medication.
It can be viral or bacterial.
No. It's bacterial.
Antibiotics can only cure bacterial pneumonia, not viral.
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Pneumonia is a general term, not a specific disease. There is viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, and a fungal pneumonia, among others.
Yes, in fact that is one of the primary initial complications of the flu: a secondary bacterial pneumonia or sometimes a secondary viral pneumonia.
fluid accumulation in the lungs due to infection. can be bacterial, viral, or fungal in origin.
One of the complications of influenza is secondary pneumonia, it may be either viral pneumonia or it could be bacterial pneumonia taking advantage of the weakened state of the host.
Pneumonia is a bacterial or viral infection of the lungs. The lungs begin to fill with fluid causing difficulty breathing and high fever.
False. Aspiration pneumonia is caused by the stomach contents or food going down into the lungs. It can cause a chemical pneumonitis and or a bacterial infection but not a viral infection.
To prevent secondary bacterial or viral infections, such as pneumonia.