Pneumonia

Pneumonia is very treatable in 2014. If caught early enough, a person can take a round of antibiotics and get better. In some cases, a person may need to be hospitalized to be treated.

Bibasilar pulmonary nodules are small spots on the lungs. Most of these spots 60% are considered benign, although it is best to have them biopsied. These nodules can be seen on x ray when they are 1cm in size. Anything over 3cm is considered a mass

Yes, you can go outside while you have pneumonia although it would not be a good idea because you can make your self more vulnerable to sicknesses. So if you can try to stay in a warm and safe place and if you can only go out side if you have to like going to you car so you can drive to the hospital.

It is fine to be near a person with pneumonia, unless your immune system is compromised, as well. Under those circumstances, you should probably keep seven to ten feet between you and the pneumonia patient.

I'm assuming you mean the infectious kind. Typically:

Pneumococcal (most common): Sudden onset of shaking chills, fever (especially 101-105 F), productive cough (sputum often brown), stabbing pains in the chest, v. often a history of recent respiratory illness can be elicited.

Patients appear acutely ill, have marked tachypnea w/o orthopnea. Patient often lies on affected side and respirations are grunting with flared nares. Signs of consolidation may be absent in the initial stages, fine rales will manifest soon over the involved area. Pleural friction rub may often be heard early. Frank consolidation with possible multilobar involvement will be found later.

Leukocytosis 20-35 k cu. mm. Gram stain of sputum will show many RBC, WBC, and pneumococci.

Predisposing factors: malnutrition, exposure to cold, alcohol, noxious gases, drugs, cardiac failure, viral respiratory diseases.

Klebsiella: Sudden onset of chills, fever, dyspnea, cyanosis, profound toxicity, sputum often mucoid and sticky + difficult to expectorate (also a [usually deep] red in color).

All symptoms and WBC counts can be highly variable, diagnosis by microscopy.

You need a good, well stained smear to differentiate from pneumococci: the predominate organism will be a short, encapsulated, gram negative bacterium.

Predisposing factors: 40-60 yrs w/ a history of alcoholism or debilitating disease.

Staphylococcal: Usually a history of minor illness with cough, headache, and generalized aches and pains; then abrupt onset of severe illness w/ chills, high fever, deep cyanosis, and exaggerated cough (sputum commonly blood streaked or purulent).

Early signs of empyema, pleural effusion, or tension pneumothorax may be present. WBC typically ~ 20 k cu. mm. Gram stain of sputum reveals masses of WBCs and gram+ cocci, many of which will be intracellular.

Predisposing factors: recent viral infection of the respiratory tract, hospitalized infants (usually after antimicrobial therapy), post surgical patients = typically post influenza or nosocomial.

Streptococcal: Severe toxicosis + cyanosis. Pleural effusion develops often and early, left untreated will progress to empyema in 1/3 of patients. Dx by finding of large number of streptococci in gram-stained sputum.

Predisposing factors: Usually a recent viral infection of the upper respiratory tract (especially influenza or measles), underlyin pulmonary disease.

Viral: Slow (relatively) but progressive symptoms. Cough dry or productive w/ mucoid or watery sputum. Typically, there are associated signs of viral syndrome - rashes, myalgia, conjunctivitis , sore throat, runny nose, etc., etc.). Pleuritic pain sometimes present but usually far less severe than in bacterial pneumonia. Dyspnea is rare.

No findings of consolidation, patient will not appear as "sick", may be mildly febrile but no fever also common, rales and coarse breath sounds may be heard.

WBC usually normal but can reach 12 k, gram stain of sputum should reveal few (mixed) or no organisms.

Mycoplasmal: Similar to viral but with more severe symptom expression and somewhat more acute onset. Cough usually more productive, sputum similar. Myalgia and malaise may be more prominent. May occur as a limited epidemic (camps, schools, etc.).

Signs of consolidation in chest, patient may look mildly sick, fever usually low grade (can be high).

Leukocytosis up to 15 k in 25% of cases.

Helps?

Yes and no pneumonia can be also caused by viruses and is mostly the lytic cycle!

Yes but it's more likely because the nursing facility he was at in Vicksburg, MS was crap!

There's no simple answer because it depends on how far the pneumonia was worked itself into your system, your age, weight, and your body's unique way of handling the healing process. For example, though, if you have pretty serious pneumonia, and your lungs are fairly infected, you'll need about a week in bed resting (each day should get better, though for the first few it'll be exhausting even to get up to go the the rest room), followed by up to 4 weeks to get your strength back. Again, depending on your fitness and activities during that time, you could be back to normal in as little as a week or as much as 2 months. Always, always consult with your doctor of you don't sense any improvement over a few days. It's rare, but an infection that gets worse can be fatal.

it can be see pneumonia is when you have fluid in your lungs, and it can be very deadly if you don't get help as soon as possible, actually a month ago one of my best friends mothers got pneumonia and her heart stopped and they rushed her to the hospital and she lived thank goodness for her 12 year old daughter or she would have been dead

Maybe, about two days after getting strep. You should keep patient home for 7 days from onset if untreated; with adequate medical treatment, 24 hours.

Commonly, Pneumonia can be cured with antibiotics. Viral pneumonia, however, has no cure except the immune system, so fluids and other immune system helpers will be administered. Possibly intravenously

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Yes, if the type of pneumonia the person has is caused by bacteria or viruses. Just like any other communicable disease, it will spread from person to person. Some forms of pneumonia are not due to infectious organisms and they are not communicable.

Use good hand washing and prevention techniques to avoid catching it from someone infected. There are vaccinations you can get for some types of pneumonia that work like a flu shot to keep you immune from the organism that causes the infectious pneumonia.

• get plenty of rest
• drink plenty of fluid to prevent dehydration and to thin the mucus in your lungs, making it easier to cough up
• treat headaches, fever and aches and pains with paracetamol or ibuprofen (ibuprofen is not recommended if you have asthma)

The signs and symptoms of pneumonia and pneumonitis are usually nonspecific, consisting of fever, chills, shortness of breath, and chest pain. Fever and chills are more frequently associated with infectious pneumonias but may also be seen in pneumonitis.

because the gravity is sampak to the moon and it creates tb that destroy lungs

above is crap and who ever wrote it sucks

When someone has Pneumonia, fluid begins to fill up around the tiny alveoli in the lungs (they look like grapes). Its the alveoli job to supply the blood with oxygen and exhale carbon-dioxide from the body. When you have fluid on the lungs, oxygen cant supply the body with the adequate amount of oxygen. The wheezing you hear is the air trying to get through the fluids. Also carbon dioxide has an issue leaving the body as well. Over time you will find that people retain carbon dioxide and end up with conditions such as COPD.

Most recommendations are that you should not take flu vaccinations if you have an active infection with fever or other serious symptoms.

If no fever, and symptoms are mild, you could get the vaccination, but since each case is different, it would be best to speak to your doctor who is treating your pneumonia.

You can take the vaccination if you are taking antibiotics, there is no drug interaction problem, but if you still have active pneumonia, ask your doctor's advice about the flu shot. They may suggest that in your case the risk of getting the flu on top of pneumonia at the current stage of your lung infection, would be higher than the risk of an improper immune response to the vaccination and therefore will want you to take the vaccination now.

No the flu is a virus. doxycycl hyc. is for infections of a bacteria nature. And is not a cure for the flu.

Chest and back physiotherapy, turning from side to side every two hours, administered antibiotics as prescribed, monitoring of Vital signs, encouraged to drink plenty of water, suction secretions if needed and etc.

This would depend on the "culture-and-sensitivity" report of your condition, and could a cephalosporin (as Rocephin) , or a penicillin-like drug like piperacillin along with an aminoglycoside like tobramycin.

I think the best treatment for a lung infection is Ciprofloxacin. I've tried it with many of my patients and it's effective.

Treatment c. 1808 included garlic, pepper, cinnamon, turpentine, coffee, ipecac, and potassium nitrate.

She died on April 12, 1912 in Glen Echo, Maryland at the age of 91 from pneumonia. She was buried back at Oxford, MA.

If my math is correct and she was born December 25, 1821 and died April 12, 1912, she would have been 90 when she died (she would have been 91 on December 25, 1921, but in April, she was still 90).