Symptoms of bacterial pneumonia

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Pneumonia can be caused by many factors, such as physical, chemical or biological factors. For example, radiation pneumonia can be caused by chest irradiation during radiotherapy, and chemical pneumonia can be caused by inhalation of toxic gases. However, these non infectious pneumonia are relatively rare, and most cases are infectious pneumonia, which is caused by bacteria, viruses and other pathogenic microorganisms. The symptom of bacterial pneumonia, next I tell you.

Symptoms of bacterial pneumonia

The most common early symptoms of pneumonia are fever, weakness, discomfort and other local symptoms. Pneumonia is inflammation of the lung parenchyma. Lung parenchyma is the part of the lung for gas exchange, which mainly refers to the terminal respiratory unit mainly composed of alveoli.

Pneumonitis can spread to the whole lung or concentrate in limited areas. Microscopically, there were dilated blood vessels in the inflamed area. There were exudates from blood vessels in the interstitial tissue and alveoli around the blood vessels. The exudates were rich in polymorphonuclear leukocytes and other inflammatory cells. The alveoli could be filled with inflammatory exudates (Consolidation).

Pneumonia refers to inflammation of the terminal airway, alveoli and lung interstitium. The early symptoms of pneumonia are fever, shortness of breath, persistent dry cough, possible unilateral chest pain, chest pain when deep breathing and coughing, small amount of phlegm or large amount of phlegm, which may contain blood. Children with pneumonia, symptoms are often not obvious, may have a slight cough or no cough at all.

matters needing attention

In daily life, eat more fruits and vegetables, keep optimistic mood, pay attention not to fatigue, pay attention to the recovery of the body, in addition, if there are any symptoms should go to the hospital for examination, and corresponding treatment, these are to actively do.