What are the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?

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Antibiotics, this disease brings great harm to patients, I believe we are not unfamiliar with it, China is a big country in the use of antibiotics, is also a big country in the production of antibiotics. For bacterial pneumonia in the elderly, the use of antibiotics can be described as a cure. However, many people abuse antibiotics in their life, which makes it more difficult to treat the disease. So many patients especially want to know, what are the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly??

What are the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?

First: pneumonia symptoms, clinical manifestations, the most common infectious pneumonia fever, weakness, discomfort and other systemic symptoms, as well as cough, expectoration, chest pain, shortness of breath 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. Inflammation may spread to the whole lung or concentrate in limited areas.

Second: the symptoms of adult pneumonia, most of the acute onset of pneumonia, short course of disease, course of less than a month for acute pneumonia; course of 1-3 months is called persistent pneumonia; more than 3 months is chronic pneumonia. According to the way of infection, infectious pneumonia can be divided into aspiration pneumonia (including inhalation of infectious particles in the air, oropharyngeal secretions and gastric juice, etc.), hematogenous disseminated pneumonia and traumatic pneumonia (infection caused by chest penetrating injury, trauma caused by diagnostic or therapeutic operation of the lung, etc.). Pneumonia can be divided into primary pneumonia and secondary pneumonia.

Third: if inflammation first occurs in the lung tissue, it is called primary pneumonia, which is mainly caused by pathogenic factors entering the lung through the airway. Secondary pneumonia generally refers to all pulmonary inflammatory complications in the case of systemic or pulmonary diseases, which may be caused by the spread of microorganisms in the original lesions outside the lung into the lung, while the original diseases cause the decline of systemic or pulmonary resistance, and the secondary pneumonia caused by the invasion of resident bacteria in the body into the lung tissue is more common.

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I would also like to emphasize: most babies with pneumonia have cough or asthma, and the degree is serious, often causing dyspnea. Cold and bronchitis caused by cough or asthma is generally light, will not cause dyspnea. Dyspnea is characterized by suffocation, one by one on both sides of the nose (nasal instigation), and purple lips, indicating that the condition is serious and should not be delayed.